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Alex
Hogg Guitar
Alex has written and performed
music for film, theatre and conceptual projects since 1998, working with
groups such as Shunt and Rotozaza. Minima is the result of a
life-long fascination with the relationship between music and the moving
image. His band Muscle Man Moses accompanied Shunt’s theatre show Hedwig and Stoller and morphed into an
improvising film accompaniment group. He then started writing a soundtrack to
The Seashell and the Clergyman and
in 2006 started looking for a band to play the music live… Contact Minima via Alex’s email: aehogg@googlemail.com |
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Mick
Frangou Drums
Mick has played drums since the
age of fourteen, with credits including The Wall, and ex-Swell Maps/TV
Personalities artist Jowe Head’s experimental band Angel Racing Food. Mick’s first kit was a
baking tin filled with nuts and bolts for a snare drum, plastic buckets used
to store printing ink for toms and bass drum, which was played using right
hand accents with a stick, and a sheet of tin for a cymbal. Mick had been
wanting to play in an audio-visual context since his art school days: cue
email from Alex Hogg… “would you be interested in playing live to a silent
film…?” Mick is also a practising visual
and conceptual artist exhibiting with, amongst others, The
London Group. Contact Mick via his MySpace
site: www.myspace.com/mickfrangou |
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Adrian
Smith Bass
Ade has been playing
bass since the age of 2. He trained at Madam Bo Bo’s Conservatory for
Professional Women on the Left Bank in Paris during the student riots in the
1960s. After a brief spell with Billy Cotton’s Circus as a tight rope
walking, belly dancing, ukulele player, he took up the bass again with Alt
Jazz, Folk, Reggae combo Jah Bop and the Sandals.
Alex Hogg spotted Ade
busking in the Andes and asked him if he’d like to play in Minima – he
initially said no, but after offering Ade full free access to Alex’s huge
collection of Naturist Super 8 films, Ade finally agreed to join the band on
condition he keep the films.
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Greg
Hall Cello
Greg is a singer/songwriter,
cellist and composer, currently also performing and recording as a solo
artist and playing cello with The Highs. Greg has worked with a number of dance and theatre companies
including Zephr in Zanussi, Qualia Theatre and Tiat Moo as sound artist and
live performer. Other projects that Greg is occasionally involved with
include Rotifer and the DNA Orchestra and he has also worked as a field
recordist in South Africa for the British Library. Contact Greg via his MySpace
site: www.myspace.com/gregbhall |
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