Label: Discus Music

英重鎮演奏家Steve Beresfordが参加した極上のエレクトロ・アコースティック/即興!!50年以上に渡り英国の即興音楽シーンの中心人物として活躍、デレク・ベイリー、エヴァン・パーカー、ハン・ベニンク、クリスチャン・マークレー、Alterationsといった作家/グループと共演してきたSteve Beresford。過去に共演しているPaul Khimasia Morgan、Faradena Afifiと不思議なサウンドスケープ的即興を紡ぎ出し記録したアルバム[Bee Reiki]。リモートのセッションで作られた為、ノイズやグリッチの混入、音切れなどの不具合が発生、そのエラーをセッションに参加する演奏者として捉え、まさに多彩な音素材が混在する独創的な音場の提示に成功。







“Continuing to be one of the most resourceful of improvisers, Beresford proves to be a sturdy linchpin between the austerity of Morgan’s aesthetic and the playful openness of Afifi’s. Together, they have a unique homely chemistry.” – Bill Shoemaker, POINT OF DEPARTURE

“The success of this particular recording is that it wears its soundscape lightly. Musicians as far apart as David Toop, Paul Lytton, Milford Graves, Julie Tippetts, John Zorn, Maggie Nicols have all been buzzing in these hives. What they all share in common is a sense of adventure that draws the ears in.” – Steve Day

“Refreshingly unpredictable” – Kevin Whitlock, JAZZWISE


Bee Reiki gestated within the regular lockdown zoom meetings Steve and Paul were holding in 2020 and 2021. Steve being based in London and Paul just outside Brighton, in these online meetings, like many musicians at that time, they mostly chatted and caught up with news and analysed the lack of live performance opportunities created by the pandemic.

In the odd fifteen minutes or so they weren’t doing that, they attempted to improvise together using the Zoom platform. Steve would balance his iPad inside his grand piano in his front room, while Paul - invariably using an electronic set up of some kind - would experiment with direct audio recording or sometimes hi-fi speakers pointed at his laptop. Often the Zoom platform exposed its limitations for processing audio reliably, sometimes distorting one or both person’s audio feed, adding sonic artefacts, glitches, drop-outs and so forth. Because of this unpredictable behaviour, Steve and Paul began to think of Zoom as a kind of third contributory participant to their sessions. Not exactly an unwelcome guest, but…

So when restrictions were finally lifted and we could all return to whatever “normal” had become after the pandemic, it made sense to invite a real-life third participant to join in. Faradena Afifi was their first choice; known for setting up Noisy Women. Wanting to sustain a freshness and sense of new found freedom, a studio recording day was booked quickly and without prior rehearsal, the tracks that make up Bee Reiki were recorded by Syd Kemp in his East London studio in one day.

A British Afghani community and improvising musician and vocalist and full time T’ai Chi teacher and practitioner, Faradena is influenced by any musical form that involves unusual rhythms and by all sounds she hears. Her musical influences are Nature (especially birdsong), building sites, trains, T'ai Chi Chuan, Maggie Nicols, improvised music, dance, visual art and folk music from around the world. Fara connects sound with shape, rhythm and movement. She plays strings, piano, percussion and improvised T'ai Chi and Yigong. She is the founder of The Noisy Women Present, a multi-disciplined, inclusive, creative collective.

Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over fifty years, working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Christian Marclay and Alterations. He has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, composer and producer, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvising musician, recording engineer and visual artist who as well as Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford, has worked creatively with Blanca Regina, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Cristiàn Alvear, Ryu Hankil, Simon Whetham, Gus Garside, is a participant in TIDES (with Paul May, Peter Marsh and Daniel Spicer) and Mark Wastell's THE SEEN. He also plays electronics with Rubber Bus and Somnambulance.