GEST8
GEST8 is featured on the following titles
Kaleidoscope
GEST8, the brainchild of Sandy Evans and Tony Gorman, extends their search for new colours in improvisation and jazz. Kaleidoscope is the band’s debut recording.
Members of GEST8
Sandy Evans
Sandy Evans brings soprano and tenor saxophone into free improvisation, contemporary jazz and intercultural writing where koto, tabla and electronics sit beside the horn. Her lines can turn flute-like, almost vocal, or push hard against the group.
Tony Gorman
Tony Gorman is an Australian composer, producer and bandleader working in exploratory jazz and improvisation. He co-leads the ensemble GEST8, writing original music built around unusual textures and contemporary ensemble writing.
Paul Cutlan
Paul Cutlan (b. 1964) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser whose work spans contemporary classical music, jazz and world music. Bass clarinet and saxophone sit at the centre of a practice that moves freely between writing and performance.
Phil Slater
Phil Slater is an Australian jazz trumpeter and composer whose playing and writing sit at the centre of contemporary improvised music. Based in the Illawarra, he has led award-winning projects and taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Satsuki Odamura
Satsuki Odamura brings koto and bass koto into contemporary music with playing that is dramatic, lyrical and fiercely adaptable, from Japanese repertoire and folksong colour to free improvisation, jazz and film score.
Carl Dewhurst
Carl Dewhurst is an Australian jazz guitarist and composer. His playing joins fleet facility to a sympathetic ear for unusual textures, free improvisation and contemporary ensemble writing.
Steve Elphick
Steve Elphick’s double bass gives contemporary jazz its earth and its pulse. With Sandy Evans and GEST8 he locks African-tinged grooves, opens sparse landscape duets, and helps shape music where koto, electronics and free invention meet.
Simon Barker
Simon Barker is an Australian jazz drummer and composer whose distinctive, responsive playing anchors exploratory ensemble work and original Australian jazz.
Greg White
Greg White shapes music through live computer interaction, sound manipulation and programming, often in dialogue with improvising instrumentalists. His work moves between composed electronic pieces and long-form interactive soundscapes.