Tom Chant

Eddie Prévost (drums) in trio with Tom Chant (soprano saxophone) and John Edwards (double bass), six improvisations recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston-upon-Thames, on 28 August 2000.

TIp! "This tape was the very first idea I had when considering starting the label. Actually, it may have even be the other way around: the possibility of recording and releasing the first Tom Chant solo album acted as the catalyst for Hera Corp. My main concept behind the label was as simple as "release the music you want to listen to”, and I've listened to and played with Tom so many countless times that I didn't need to think twice. It's difficult for me to point to a specific lineage or style…

A concert by Tom Chant (tenor and soprano saxophones), John Edwards (double bass) and Eddie Prévost (drums), recorded at the Network Theatre, Waterloo, London, on 13 June 2012.

This is a soprano sax/acoustic guitar session recorded at Sehnaoui's apartment in Paris, which is near an old cloister. The record comprises three long improvisations whose grammar derives from an obstinate research for uncharted areas of intelligent needlework, thus fertilizing the ground for new contiguities between the percussive resonance of instruments. The results achieved by this duo through the application of extended techniques bring the whole thing to shine, and quite often. Cha…