Biography
Pianist and Electronic musician, Grew's playing is a bit like modern day Classical piano music, unintentionally similar to Cecil Taylor and atonal 1930's piano music from Germany, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, only not as dark!
Grew is an improviser, conjures musical shapes and worlds from the gentle urgency of the moment and experience of twenty years devotion to the pure process of free improvisation. Early influences are including the above : Bartok, Debussy, Ravel.
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Having been an Artist and Potter in his 20's and 30's, the sound of the piano drew him back to the keyboard with renewed vigour and longing. He performs in many combinations, actively with violinist Graham Clark, Phillip Marks, with his brother in Grutronic, and Evan Parker. Has several releases, Pianoforte with Pat Thomas, Howard Riley and Keith Tippett, Grutronic, Grew Trio on the Discus label, Slam productions, Bruces Fingers and two new releases one on the Gong label and Grutronic compilation including Orphy Robinson on Evan Parker's label PSI.
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