mopti

Acclaimed multi-media collective, founded in 1997, with a unique blend of composed structures, loop-based improvisation, image-rich poetry, and atmospheric visual projections. Takes its name from a Don Cherry tune named after a town in Mali.

mopti were Artists in residence at Bristol's centre for sustainable development, The Create Centre, for The Year of the Artist 2000-2001. There have also been sell-out performances at some of the south-west's most unusual spaces (including The Create Centre itself, The Tobacco Factory, Templar House, a disused light-industrial space overlooking building constructions, and the Rondo Theatre, as part of the Bath Literature Festival).

mopti are:

Steve Alexander
(electric guitar, loops);
Adam Gittins
(electric upright bass, double-bass, loops);
Jon Hardeman
(percussion, berimbau, loops);
Pete Judge
(compositions, trumpet, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, loops);
Reuben Knutson
(visual projections);
Bob Walton
(words/voice).