Beak> in-store @ Amoeba

Beak> plays an in-store session at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. Portishead producer and multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow formed the krautrock-tinged Beak> in 2009 with two fellow Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller and Matt Williams. The band has very strict guidelines governing the recording and writing process of their work. The music for their self-titled album was recorded live in one room with no overdubs or repair, only using edits to create arrangements. All tracks were written over a twelve-day session in SOA Studios, Bristol.

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Sometimes a band can be no more than the sum of its parts, but BEAK> is an equation in which it’s impossible to define equivalents or totals. Instead the meeting of three talents form a foundation from which ideas assimilate and propagate. Those talents are:

Billy Fuller. Reared in Bristol, on an aural diet of anything and everything, facilitated later by his time working in the cities top independent record shop Replay Records, and also playing with handfuls of bands – including Invada’s Fuzz Against Funk as well as Massive Attack, Robert Plant, and Malakai. Billy is BEAK>’s thoughtful pulse; his bass a forceful origin for their superlative narrative arcs.

Matt Williams. Picked up a Yamaha keyboard at age three and never looked back. As Team Brick, he creates dissonance that immediately elucidates free forming thought, and impacts heavily on BEAK>’s rolling landscape. He enjoys playing air drums whilst cycling, singing lines from a favorite Latin prayer, and doesn’t understand the music he makes himself.

Geoff Barrow. Musician and producer born near Bristol. Best known for forming and producing popular music group Portishead and part owner of the independent record label Invada Records. Commenting on working in BEAK>, he says, "It's really good to create music under different conditions than you're used to.”