WALDO’S GIFT Goodshed Session filmed live at Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud

Good Shed Sessions Waldos Gift James Vine, drums. Harry Stoneham, bass. Alun Elliot-Williams, guitar. Release date: Tuesday 1st November  Filmed live at the Brunel Goods Shed on 11th April 2021 by Tarsier Creative - Director and cam op - Callum Chaplin Cam op - Motz Workman Recording - Rob Pemberton Sound tech - Jack Page Coordination - Neil Walker Supported by PRS for Music Teaming up with Tarsier Creative, d&b audiotechnik and SVA and funded through the PRS Foundation, we produced a series of pre-recorded performances from Jazz Stroud artists that were booked to play in 202O, but were cancelled due to the pandemic. Goodshed Sessions include performances by Yelfris Valdes, Sarathy Korwar, Ishmael Ensemble, Griz-O, JSSO, Mermaid Chunky, Waldos Gift, Roella Oloro, Tim Davies will be released throughout November. Check for release dates update. Waldo’s Gift first met at a smokey jam session, in a central Bristol industrial estate and since then have been combining elements of groove, jazz, math and classical music to formulate their unique sound. Showcasing their own hybrid of groove, math and jazz plus hosting a weekly night at Bristol’s The Gallimaufry, where they invite some of the city’s finest to collaborate with them; Waldos Gift has emerged as a new force, combining blinding technique with real creative musical insight and authenticity. Featuring James Vine on drums, Harry Stoneham on bass and Alun Elliot-Williams on guitar. ’Waldo’s Gift takes inspiration from electronic music heavyweights such as Aphex Twin and Teebs as well as their collective love-affair with early-noughties metal, the trio take listeners into completely uncharted sonic territory’ BandCamp ‘This is something really special’ Mary Anne, Hobbs ‘John Peel would have played that’ Gilles Peterson ‘Their intensely improvisatory approach is dominated by the physicality of the live experience’ Clash Magazine ‘Improvisation at its absolute peak’ BBC Introducing ‘A new take on the guitar, bass, drums trio. Owing as much to lying Lotus as John Coltrane’s’ BBC 3 Jazz Now Future Goodshed Sessions include performances by Sarathy Korwar, Ishmael Ensemble, Griz-O, Mermaid Chunky, Roella Oloro, Tim Davies and more will be released throughout November. for release dates update.