TWO BANDS TRACE THEIR SHARED CONNECTIONS TO THE CANTERBURY SCENE ALONG AN AXIS THAT INCLUDES AVANT-ROCK, ROCK IN OPPOSITION & MYTHIC PROG - YUMI HARA (LINDSAY COOPER SONGBOOK/DAEVID ALLEN/HUGH HOPPER) - CHRIS CUTLER (HENRY COW/ART BEARS/DAEVID ALLEN/WESTBROOKS) - TOSHIAKI SUDOH (MELT-BANANA/JIM O’ROURKE) - BILLIE BOTTLE (WESTBROOKS/DAVE SINCLAIR/IOCOT) - VIV GOODWIN-DARKE (WESTBROOKS/DAVE SINCLAIR/IOCOT) - ROZ HARDING (WESTBROOKS/DAVE SINCLAIR/SUPERMOOD) Yumi Hara's Groove Study (Yumi Hara / Chris Cutler / Toshiaki Sudoh) Yumi Hara’s Groove Study are an avant-rock trio consisting of ex-Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler; London-based Japanese composer/pianist/vocalist Yumi Hara, and ex-MELT-BANANA and collaborator with Jim O’Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi, bassist Toshiaki Sudoh. Together they perform music with complex rhythm and harmony, yet accessible with memorable melodies, fusing ever-changing odd metres and world rhythms (Gamelan in 6, reggae in 7, West-African polyrhythms in 10, Baroque fugue in 15), medieval modes and Japanese scales which would appeal fans of Canterbury Scene, Rock in Opposition, Avant-Prog and Recommended Records: ‘incisive’, ‘fizzes with invention and inspiration’, ‘distils so many of the musical ideas’, ‘nothing short of majestic’ (Sid Smith, Prog magazine). Yumi Hara (piano and vocals) is the driving force of the Lindsay Cooper Songbook and collaborated extensively with Canterbury/Rock in Opposition/Krautrock/contemporary classical music such as Hugh Hopper of Soft Machine, Daevid Allen of Gong, Jean-Hervé Péron of faUSt, Tim Hodgkinson, John Greaves, Geoff Leigh, Dagmar Krause of Henry Cow, and PianoCircus. Chris Cutler is a renowned drummer whose activities encompass rock to contemporary art music, composition to improvisation, tonal song form to found sound. At the start of the seventies, he co-founded The Ottawa Music Company before joining British experimental group Henry Cow, with whom he toured, recorded and worked.