The Celebration of John Russell's Life in Music - Sunday 21st February at 14:00 PM GMT

Hello, & a very warm, special Mopomoso welcome to Mopomoso TV’s Celebration of its founder, John Russell! Please note, this show is over 2hours & 15minutes long, so you might want to make yourself a Mopomoso cocktail, or two, from our selection here; https://tv.mopomoso.com/moptails/

Many thanks to everyone involved in Mopomoso, especially to Mopomoso TV team’s Kostas Chondros for bringing everything together for you to watch today.

Further Mopomoso thanks & credits, in no particular order:

John Russell Lecture (6 clips), John Russell - visiting Professor Lecture Musashino Art University, June 10, 2019 Camera: Zhang Fei - Zhao Zhengrong, Editing: Zhang Fei, Translation: Matsushita Yumi, Organisation: Christophe Charles - Musashino Art University Visiting Professor Program, June 10~15, 2019. https://youtu.be/O5vnpnuanuo http://eizou.musabi.ac.jp/topics/2019/06/post-42.php

Chris Burn - piano

Mike Cooper - guitar

Suzueri

Kay Grant - film & vocals

Paul Buckton

Susanna Ferrar - violin

Akio Suzuki - percussion/objects & John Russell - guitar, film - Helen Petts

Maggie Nicols - voice

Roger Turner - percussion

Ken Ikeda - electronics & Tetuzi Akiyama - guitar

Clive Bell - shakuhachi & ukulele

Recording of 2013 workshop at SPM contributed by Nicola Guazzaloca

Stewart Lee

Tanja Feichtmair - alto saxophone & John Russell - guitar

Riya Kori - voice

Phil Durrant - electronics

Dave Tucker - guitar

Steve Beresford - piano, Helen Petts image

Ståle Liavik Solberg

Raymond MacDonald - saxophone, edited by Maria Sappho, https://raymondmacdonald.co.uk

James Christian Winters/Tumbleweed - Improvization for John Russell

Dom Lash

Osvaldo La Porta - ULTIMO

Ove Volquartz - “Blue Line with Yellow Contour”

Enzo Rocco - ciao John

Paulo Hartmann - “Have a safe trip John”

Mia Zabelka

Gina Southgate & Alan - For John, Normal Rules Final

Gianni Mimmo Body (interlude)

Rick Jensen

Dom Minasi - In Memory of John Russell, www.domminasi.com email: [email protected]

Yasuko Kaneko

Pascal Marzan - “Hommage a John Russell”

Showji Masaharu - saxophone, “For John Russell from Showji Masaharu”

Nicola Guazzaloca - Eduardo Marraffa, in memory john russell

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, duet from Maggie Nicols & Steve Beresford, edited by Ross Birrell

Hauta-Aho, John Russell & Phil Wachsmann - Festival R de Choc #2

Ollie Brice

Elaine Mitchner, Alison Blunt, Mark Sanders & John Russell

Vario 44 - Dorothea Schürch, John Butcher, Günter Christmann, Thomas Lehn, John Russell, Roger Turner

Antoine Prum

Nicola L. Hein

Sabu Toyozumi

Vario 50 - Elke Schipper, John Russell, Alexander Frangenheim, Mats Gustafsson, John Russell

Kei Nakano’s tribute will be part of a future Mopomoso TV episode

Douglas Benford

Musashino Art University Students & Lecturers who attended the John Russell Workshops in 2018 & 2019, “Homage à John Russell” Christophe Charles: sound, camera, Ichiseki Fuko: ms-20 synthesizer, JOU: dance, Koyanagi Junji: network, Kurashima Yuta: cymbals, violin, Lee Jaewon: cans, cardboards, Lu Jadai: guitar, Maeda Seitaro: digital synthesizer, Matsuo Shintaro: soft synthesizer, Morishige Hikaru: radio, Yokoba Yuri: arp odyssey, Zhang Junkai: bass, toothbrush.

Chad Clark

Stephen Ying - flute, Refa Wang - double bass & Atelier YenAn - film

Yumiko Tanaka, Jenny Gallego - film

John Butcher, Dom Lash & John Russell - with photos from the archives of John Butcher, Luc Houtkamp, Sean Kelly & Andy Newcombe

Veryan Weston & Joe Smith Sands

Akira Sakata

Akihiro Kubota

George Burt - John’s Galliard

Martin Vishnick - ‘The Tolling Gong for John Russell’, inspired by John Donne’s poem ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’

Pascal Marzan, Paulo Hartmann & John Russell

Lucky & Pat Moonchy - soundcheck at SKRONK

Ute Wassermann - breathing, voice, microphone, “For John Russell from Ute Wassermann” https://birdtalking.de/

Phil Minton

Doctor Who/John - Maria Sappho

Maarten Altena

Burkhard Beins

Günter Christmann

Martin Davidson

Terry Day

Jim Denley

John Edwards

Jo Fell

Caroline Forbes

Steve Frances

Alexander Frangenheim

Mike Gennaro

Leslie Glasgow

Mats Gustafsson

Jörg Hufschmidt

Matthew Hutchinson

Thomas Lehn

Michael Lembke

Paul Lovens

Radu Malfatti

Mathias Maschat

Phil Morsman

Torsten Müller

Evan Parker

Antoine Prum

Elke Schipper

Ulrike Schöller

Dorothea Schürch

Jean-Michel van Schouwburg

Raymond Strid

David Tinn

Kris Vanderstraeten

Isabelle Vannier

Ting Yui

Enna West

Otomo Yoshihide

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Mopomoso TV will return with more tributes to John Russell & more freely improvised music from around the world - March’s episode will be dedicated to women improvisers.

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Love from the Mopomoso TV Team! xx