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Ovary Lodge II
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| Ovary Lodge was co-founded between Keith Tippett and myself some time in 1971. I had moved down from Mildenhall in Suffolk in early January 1970 to live in North London, being as there were only a handful of musicians creating the kind of improvised music that I was into and they were all based in London. Keith Tippett had formerly created Septober Energy featuring a very large band and was looking to explore small group improvisation. He founded the Keith Tippett Trio which featured Roy Babbington on bass and Keith Bailey on drums. Apparently Keith was having some difficulty with Keith Bailey at the time in the group and Harry Miller and a few other musicians recommended he try me. He rang and then came to visit me. We talked and I played a bit for him. Keith immediately replaced Keith Bailey with myself and within days we were doing gigs. Two weeks later and we were in the recording studio finishing the LP Blueprint! (on RCA/Victor). This is why Keith Bailey features on some tracks and myself on others. Shortly afterwards Keith wanted to change the name of the group and to find something of an umbrella name that would allow other musicians to join and occasionally expand the trio. He wanted to call it White Lodge. However, Roy Babbington wasn't happy with this, feeling it wasn't sexy enough. I came up with Ovary Lodge and everybody was happy with that. So we went on to record the LP Ovary Lodge for RCA/Victor to follow up from Blueprint. Some time later Roy left to play more with Soft Machine and Harry Miller replaced him; as well Keith's wife Julie Tippetts joined the group on occasions [such as the live quartet recording from Nettlefold Hall, London 6 August 1975 on this CD] When Harry was tragically killed in a 1983 road accident, Marcio Mattos took over the bass stool. Keith has always said that there is no Ovary Lodge without me. And nothing has come out or been performed under that name that hasn't had myself playing in it. - Frank Perry |
ARTISTS
Keith Tippett (piano, Harmonium, recorder, voice, maracas); Harry Miller (bass); Julie Tippetts (voice, Er-Hu, Sopranino recorder); Frank Perry (percussion, voice, Hsiao, Sheng) |
TRACKS
1. Gentle one says hello (14.00)
2. Fragment no. 6 (08.45)
3. A man carrying a drop of water on a leaf through a thunderstorm (05.10)
4. Communal travel (17.40)
5. Coda (01.00) |
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