Exuberant Improv in the Chapel of the Ascension

by Monty Oxymoron

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1.	Exuberant Improv 15:20	buy track
2.	Arabesques 02:13	buy track
3.	Whirlpool 02:26	buy track
4.	Dark Ascension 09:24	buy track
5.	Harpsichord Improv 1 01:02	buy track
6.	Harpsichord Improv 2 02:14	buy track
7.	Harpsichord Medley 08:35	buy track
8.	Clash of the Genres 01:47	buy track
9.	Things Just Ain't What They Used To Be 03:43	buy track

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I was studying “Related Arts” at WSIHE (now Chichester University) and loved it! I had been working in psychiatric nursing full time before that and to do creative stuff full time was like a playground for me. I still remember it as one of my life’s happiest times. One day I decided to go into the college chapel and play the instruments in there: the big grand piano, the organ and a harpsichord: what fun! I has not long before attended a piano workshop run by Keith Tippett and also seen John Zorn’s “Naked City” play live. Somehow that day I really felt inspired, and all these improvisations are top form. The harpsichord pieces in particular vary in range from complex free jazz via baroque and boogie-woogie (Lieutenant Pigeon’s “Mouldy Old Dough”) through operatic recitative (a la Goonshow) to Rave! Whatever suggested itself I did in the moment; that’s how it was back then. I finished with the Duke Ellington classic “Things Just ‘Ain’t What They Used To Be”. (For more improv check out Monty’s YouTube channel.)

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released April 16, 2021

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Monty Oxymoron Brighton, UK

Monty Oxymoron keyboardist for the Damned since 1996, Monty is a multi-instrumentalist who’s musical range is as diverse as the instruments he plays keyboards, piano, organ, guitar, Bass, clarinet, veena, marimba, and all sorts of hand percussion. Heavily influenced by British psychedelia of the 60’s, prog and punk of the 70’s Monty merges rhythms to create a kaleidoscope of sounds. ... more

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