Bee Reiki - 173CD (2024) | Faradena Afifi, Steve Beresford & Paul Khimasia Morgan

Bee Reiki - 173CD (2024)

by Faradena Afifi, Steve Beresford & Paul Khimasia Morgan

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1.	Sad, bedraggled bee lies in a puddle 08:33	buy track
2.	Move the bee into sunlight 05:19	buy track
3.	I wonder if Reiki might help? 06:50	buy track
4.	The bee wiggles its white, furry bottom 04:06	buy track
5.	Limbs stretch, wings vibrate, flying into sunshine 04:54	buy track
6.	Waggle Dance 13:04	buy track
7.	Buzzing Run 06:30	buy track
8.	Flksngr 05:50	buy track

about

Bee Reiki gestated within the regular lockdown zoom meetings Steve and Paul were holding in 2020 and 2021. Steve being based in London and Paul just outside Brighton, in these online meetings, like many musicians at that time, they mostly chatted and caught up with news and analysed the lack of live performance opportunities created by the pandemic.

In the odd fifteen minutes or so they weren’t doing that, they attempted to improvise together using the Zoom platform. Steve would balance his iPad inside his grand piano in his front room, while Paul - invariably using an electronic set up of some kind - would experiment with direct audio recording or sometimes hi-fi speakers pointed at his laptop. Often the Zoom platform exposed its limitations for processing audio reliably, sometimes distorting one or both person’s audio feed, adding sonic artefacts, glitches, drop-outs and so forth. Because of this unpredictable behaviour, Steve and Paul began to think of Zoom as a kind of third contributory participant to their sessions. Not exactly an unwelcome guest, but…

So when restrictions were finally lifted and we could all return to whatever “normal” had become after the pandemic, it made sense to invite a real-life third participant to join in. Faradena Afifi was their first choice; known for setting up Noisy Women. Wanting to sustain a freshness and sense of new found freedom, a studio recording day was booked quickly and without prior rehearsal, the tracks that make up Bee Reiki were recorded by Syd Kemp in his East London studio in one day.

A British Afghani community and improvising musician and vocalist and full time T’ai Chi teacher and practitioner, Faradena is influenced by any musical form that involves unusual rhythms and by all sounds she hears. Her musical influences are Nature (especially birdsong), building sites, trains, T'ai Chi Chuan, Maggie Nicols, improvised music, dance, visual art and folk music from around the world. Fara connects sound with shape, rhythm and movement. She plays strings, piano, percussion and improvised T'ai Chi and Yigong. She is the founder of The Noisy Women Present, a multi-disciplined, inclusive, creative collective.

Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over fifty years, working with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Christian Marclay and Alterations. He has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, composer and producer, and was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvising musician, recording engineer and visual artist who as well as Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford, has worked creatively with Blanca Regina, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Cristiàn Alvear, Ryu Hankil, Simon Whetham, Gus Garside, is a participant in TIDES (with Paul May, Peter Marsh and Daniel Spicer) and Mark Wastell's THE SEEN. He also plays electronics with Rubber Bus and Somnambulance.

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released April 26, 2024

Faradena Afifi - viola, violin, voice and drum set
Steve Beresford - piano, electronics and toys
Paul Khimasia Morgan - guitar body and electronics

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