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DOMINIC LASH
[contrabass, bass guitar, improviser and composer]

personal details

Born Cambridge, England, in January 1980; played bass guitar since 1994; studied with Hugh Boyd and Pascha Milner and at Basstech (London) with Rob Burns, Terry Gregory and others. Played double bass since 2001; basically self taught, with grateful thanks to Simon H. Fell. Received MA Composition from Oxford Brookes University in 2003, having studied with Paul Whitty, Ray Lee and others. Currently studying for a PhD at Brunel University, supervised by Richard Barrett. Has performed in the UK, Austria, France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland. His work has been broadcast on a number of radio stations, including BBC Radios 1 and 3 and Germany's SWR2.

Dominic Lash is active in musical genres from jazz to funk to rock. Free improvisation is his central focus; he performs regularly with a variety of stable and more ad hoc groupings in Oxford and London, as well as playing a major role in the administration of Oxford Improvisers, Oxford's free improvisation and experimental music collective.

Full musical CV (three pages)

Available for gigs, recordings and private lessons
(improvising double bass, bass guitar at all levels and beginners' electric or acoustic guitar)

"dextrous bass playing teems with energy" - Nightshift
"endless efforts to veer left of every known note or chord" - Newcastle Journal
"rising asteroid of Bass from Oxford" - Stephen Grew
"free-bass don" - Time Out

contents of this page

• some active improvising groups

• previous gigs (for upcoming gigs visit here)

• recordings

• photographs

• writings and other works

  
  

co-operative groups

• Kindness May Lash with Sandy Kindness (reeds) and Paul May (drums)
  "Brilliantly named" Time Out

• Duo with Bruno Guastalla (cello), and The Imaginary String Trio with Philipp Wachsmann (violin)

• Nostromo with Pete McPhail (saxophones and flutes), Alexander Hawkins (piano) and Roger Telford (drums)

• Intents and Purposes with Ian Smith (trumpet), Joe Williamson (double bass) and Tony Marsh (drums)

• Trio with Steve Noble (drums) and Yedo Gibson (reeds)

• Barkingside with Alex Ward (clarinet), Paul May (drums) and Alexander Hawkins (piano)
  Also Electric Barkingside with Ward on electric guitar, Hawkins on keyboard and DL on electric bass.

• The Convergence Quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet, etc.), Harris Eisenstadt (drums & percussion) and Alexander Hawkins (piano)

• Quartet with Angharad Davies (violin), Benedict Drew (laptop) and Phil Durrant (software sampler/synth/treatments)
  Also duo with Angharad Davies

• Duo with Patrick Farmer (drums, cymbals, percussion, polystyrene, etc)

• Gannets with Chris Cundy (bass clarinet), Fyfe Dangerfield (keys, guitar), Steve Noble (drums, percussion) and Alex Ward (clarinet)

• Quartet with Stephen Grew (piano), Mick Beck (saxophone, bassoon, whistles) and Phil Marks (percussion).

• Trio with Pete McPhail (saxophones and flutes) and Mark Sanders (drums and percussion)

• Two Plump Daughters with Chris Cundy (contrabass and bass clarinets)

  
  

representations
Dominic Lash's ongoing modular composition/improvisation project.
Musicians involved thus far:

• Javier Carmona (drums, percussion, etc)

• Bruno Guastalla (cello, bandoneon)

• Alexander Hawkins (piano)

• Pete McPhail (saxophones and flutes)

• David Stent (electric guitar)

groups led by others

• Tim Hill's Tongues of Fire

• The Locals [DL on electric bass with Pat Thomas (piano, arrangements), Alex Ward (clarinet), Evan Thomas (electric guitar) and Darren Hasson-Davis (drums)]
  Funk versions of Anthony Braxton's compositions

• SILA [with Pat Thomas (piano, arrangements), Geoff Hawkins (sax) and Roger Telford (drums)]
  New arrangements of the jazz repertoire.

• Tim Hill's The Twittering Machine [with Jonathan Coleclough, Bruno Guastalla and Cliff Stapleton]

• Worlds Unknown with Tim Hill (saxophones) and Steve Noble (drums)

• Alexander Hawkins Ensemble [with AH (piano, melodica, compositions & arrangements), Javier Carmona (drums), Otto Fischer (guitar), Hannah Marshall (cello), and Orphy Robinson (steel pan, etc.)]

• Steve Reid Ensemble [featuring Steve Reid (drums) and Kieran Hebden (electronics)]

For booking any of the above groups, contact one of the addresses or numbers above

at Jazz on 3 session [Feb 2008]

a rehearsal [Brookes '03]

Live at NOFI [Feb 2007]

Live at KneeKnees with Okkyung Lee [Feb 2007]

live at Colourscape [Sept 2006]

live at SJC with Alex Ward and Otto Fischer [May 2002]

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