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Charlie Beresford - Crystal Moth

Charlie Beresford - Vocals Carolyn Hume - Keyboards and Piano Peter Marsh - Double Bass, Electric Bass, Steel Guitar Paul May - Drums, Drum Fx & Overdubs Patrick Dawes - Percussion, Fx Guest Musicians; Duke Garwood - Guitar Chris Cornetto - Chinese Flute/flugelhorn Nina Abadzis - Choral Vocals James Burnham - Violin Jon Clayton - Cello Produced by Patrick Dawes Engineered by Jon Clayton, Patrick Dawes. Vocals - Charlie Beresford Mastering - Ben Turner Film edited by Charlie Beresford Footage by Charlie Beresford and Peter Marsh

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To round the year up.

Well it has been a good year musically. I’ve had the good fortune to work with some of the most open minded and adventurous people I could ever have asked to make a racket with. Beresford Hammond has had a great year, we’ve played some wonderful spaces both here and abroad. Easy Jet even managed to NOT break my guitar in the hold, mainly thanks to the good folks at Hiscox. We have crowned the pukka year with ‘The Science of Snow’ being mentioned in the best of 2015 on AP Reviews our little record is sitting there proud amongst some great names.

Myself and Sonia were joined by Carolyn Hume and Judie Tzuke this year to make some recordings which was a great experience and will be explored further. We will be making a trio record with Carolyn early in the new year also. More on that as and when. Below is a film I made to go alongside a piece by Beresford Hammond Hume Tzuke.

The Crystal Moth project featuring all of Fourth Page and Patrick Dawes, plus Duke Garwood, Chris Cornetto, Nina Abadzis, James Burnham, and Jon Clayton. Is ready to be unleashed on the world next year see below for a taster. More as and when on that also.

Last but not least, the outreach work with Camilla Saunders and the Radnor Improvisers has been taken to the next level this year. It has been truly awe inspiring to see how improvised music can help people whose means of communicating has been limited through illness. The sessions we have had the honour to be part of this year (see ‘Notes from the front’ blog for details) have really highlighted the true power of music for all of us who took part. Camilla and I are in the process of writing a report on the findings of the group which we will publish next year. This work will carry on next year and we hope to see it grow from strength to strength.

So it it just leaves me to say, Happy Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone. In all that is going on in the world lets hope we can all learn to be a little kinder to each other.....

Love Cx

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