The Artaud Beats
The Artaud Beats came together in a chance encounter at [a140885]'s Avantgarde Festival in Schiphorst, 2009. Geoff Leigh and Yumi Hara were there as a duo, Chris Cutler and John Greaves were in a quartet with Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause. It was Geoff who proposed the quartet and Jean-Hervé enthusiastically supported the idea. The concert was fine, the public happy and a Norwegian promoter from Bodo, who happened to be in the audience, immediately invited them to his next festival. So a casual meeting metamorphosed into a band. Since Geoff, Chris, and John had all been in [a282968] together in the 1970s, they gave themselves a name with a (subtle) reference to Henry Cow's famous composition "Living In [b]The Heart Of The Beast[/b], thus becoming "The Artaud Beats".
Members: John Greaves, Chris Cutler, Geoff Leigh, and Yumi Hara-Cawkwell
