Taking the electric music of Miles Davis as its starting point, Martin Archer's Anthropology Band is about finding the atmosphere through a deep rhythm, a searing blues run, a delicate melody, or a cascading solo statement.
Tim & Julie Cole are long established as a folk duo & long time friend Martin Archer (yes they all really were schoolfriends) joins them for their occasional leftfield excursions. First CD is based around Keith Jafrate's highly individual...
Martin Archer made a number of albums in collaboration with John Jasnoch, who has been a mainstay of the locally based improv scene for many years.
Pell-mell jazz punk outfit Bass Tone Trap was the first serious creative band for several members of Sheffield's creative music scene.
Thereminist extraordinaire in the company of percussionist Charlie Collins and brass multi instrumentalist Derek Saw for this one off release on Discus.
Bo Meson is a metaphysicist whose poetic musings reinvigorate those around him. His constantly evolving and apparently self-contradictory world view leads to a changing line-up of collaborators, which is perhaps most apparent in the improvising...
Combat Astronomy is the project of Minnesota based bassist / composer James Huggett, with Martin Archer and Peter Fairclough, ,and in the business of dealing out some heavy as plutonium Zeuhl jazz metal sludge on the band's own Zond...
I fight aggressive mediocrity through music from the centre of a small island (but really, I am a musician, promoter, arts advocate, and researcher. I am from and live in Derby).
Das Rad is a trio of Nick Robinson, Martin Archer and Steve Dinsdale playing driving motorik rock music through to improv abstraction.
Eclectic Maybe Band is the studio project of Belgian bassist, composer and producer Guy Segers.
Martin Archer's 10 piece / 4 drummer AACM influenced jazz group comprises some fresh new names on the UK jazz scene alongside some crusty old mavericks. You decide who is which.
frostlake is a singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist, writing and recording original material.
She has been active in the left field music scene in Sheffield over the last few years, performing with...
Led by Martin Archer and Derek Saw, this saxophone quartet, occasionally expanding to include trumpet or trombone, was a regular fixture at UK jazz clubs between 1984 and 1994.
Inclusion Principle operates in a space between electronics, nu-jazz, contemporary electroacoustic music and free improvisation tending towards a minimalist approach.
Julie has been one of the foremost creative voices variously in pop, jazz, soul and improvised music since the 1960's, and her recent creative partnership with Archer has yielded surprising results across a series of albums for...
The mighty 30 voice antichoir has been surprising, delighting and occasionally alarming audiences since 2010, under the baton of co-creative directors Martin Archer and Alan Halsey.
Composer / pianist Tippett needs little introduction to those with an ear to the ground in the world of creative music. Appearing initially on the London jazz scene in the 1960's, Keith quickly forged a reputation as a formidable player,...
Laura Cole is a pianist and composer, working in the fields of both improvised music and contemporary jazz. Cole leads and writes for her own octet, Metamorphic, and is involved in various different projects and collaborations across the UK music...
Martin Archer is the prime mover behind Discus Music and his work spans extended songform, leftfield rock, free jazz, free improv and various unclassifiable musics. His many collaborative projects are interspersed with occasional releases in...
Geraldine Monk is one of the most exciting and consistently engaging poets writing in Britain today. - Scott Thurston, editor of The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk.
Simon H. Fell is a double bassist and composer whose many works in composed and improvised music are available principally on his own Bruce's Fingers label.
Who is this mysterious figure, flitting through the shadows at the fringe of creative music for more than three decades? Whoever she may be, we are very lucky to make a couple of her works available through Discus.
As a performer-composer Matt London aspires to create emotive music inspired by free improvisation. With an approach centred around channeling the spirit of the impromptu his main musical influences are drawn from master improvisers and composers...
Beck is a saxophonist / bassoonist of awesome creativity and invention. His various groups represented on Discus are many and various.
MPH is a trio featuring three of the most creative musical minds on the improv scene today: pianist/organist Alex...
Neil has been an active member of Sheffield's creative music community since the 1980s.
OUA is a rock group using repetition based improvisations referencing Terry Riley, Krautrock, Magma, Faust, Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane.
OSE is the project of Canadian electroacoustic soundsmith Chris Meloche. Works released on Discus document Chris's encounters with Sheffield based creative musicians.
Ron Caines is a saxophonist, composer and painter based in Brighton UK. After masterminding the groundbreaking early recordings of the group East Of Eden in the late 1960s, he concentrated on jazz composition and playing in the subsequent...
TvR worked in the broad genre of creative electronic music, perceived as a direct songline from the early experiments of Stockhausen and Dockstader, through the classic German synthesists of the 1970s to the dark ambient and dub soundsmiths.
Trevor Watts has been a major name in improvised music since the 1960s, first coming to prominence as a founder member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, and later in myriad projects under his own direction. Stephen Grew is a dynamic creative...
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