Eddie Prévost, Jennifer Allum, Ute Kanngiesser, Grundik Kasyansky, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Daichi Yoshikawa

Workshop Concert is a public snapshot of the improvisation workshop that Eddie Prévost started in London in 1999 and which by 2012 had met every Friday for more than a decade. The workshop also presented monthly concerts at Cafe Oto, each curated by one participant who chose the players and the formations but could not play. This disc documents the evening of 21 May 2012, curated by saxophonist Seymour Wright. He picked six musicians to represent the workshop's range at the time and arranged the night much as a session runs.

The players are Jennifer Allum on violin, Ute Kanngiesser on cello, Grundik Kasyansky on theremin and electronics, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga on zither, Daichi Yoshikawa on electronics and Prévost on percussion. The first half, a 34 minute piece, is a chain of moving duets played in a circle. Yoshikawa and Allum begin, then each player is replaced mid-flow by the next until Yoshikawa returns to close, never more than two at once. The interest lies in how each continuing player adapts to a new partner. Allum's bow meets Yoshikawa's raw, sculpted feedback; later the buzzing drone of Lazaridou-Chatzigoga's zither hosts the handover from Kasyansky's theremin to Prévost's bowed metal. Five shorter trios follow, chosen from the many combinations heard that night. One sets violin, cello and zither weaving murmurs and soft buzzes. Another, with Kasyansky, Prévost and Yoshikawa, mixes tam-tam with blasts of feedback and fragments of sampled speech, and the closing trio is the loudest, steeped in rubbed and scraped metal. Daniel Barbiero (AvantMusic, 2013) compared a workshop to a sketchbook, giving "a view into the essential processes of creation".

Published by Matchless Recordings in 2013 as MRCD 87 (CD), recorded by Giovanni La Rovere at Cafe Oto, mixed and edited by Sebastian Lexer, with a booklet note by Wright.