Biography



PAUL KHIMASIA MORGAN



Improvisation using electronic and acoustic sounding techniques on an Eko Ranger XII guitar body.

"...He just uses feedback, using microphones in the body of this old guitar, which has no neck or strings...but you can't do A Tune A Day on that instrument!  He's worked out his own technique - the instrument didn't exist until he put it together..."

- Steve Beresford in Andy Hamilton's book Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise - Conversations with Steve Beresford  Bloomsbury 2021

Solo improvisation.
Trio with Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford.
Duo with Adam Bushell.
Duo with Klaus Janek.
Live cinema improvisation with Blanca Regina and Steve Beresford.
Field recording / improvisation project with Will Montgomery.
ad-hoc quartet with Jason Kahn, Ken Hyder and Tim Hodgkinson.
Duo with Daniel Spicer.
Duo with Roger Harmar.
Duo with Gus Garside.
Quartet with Daniel Spicer, Peter Marsh and Paul May aka TIDES.
Participant in Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN project.
Duo with HÀKARL.
Duo with Ed Pinsent.
Trio with Michael Fairfax and Barry Witherden
Electronicist with Rubber Bus and Somnambulance.

Host of The Archive of Aural Detritus podcasts (2020 - )
Curator of Aural Detritus Concert Series (2010 - )
Manager of The Slightly Off Kilter Label (2003 - )

Paul Khimasia Morgan is primarily an improvisor who uses an amplified acoustic guitar body.  He has performed in regular and ad-hoc groupings with Faradena Afifi, Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina, Cristián Alvear, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Simon Whetham, Tim Hodgkinson, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Claire Elizabeth Barrett, Ryu Hankil, Barry Witherden & Michael Fairfax, Charlotte Keefe and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN.  His Aural Detritus imprint released his latest cd; Butchers Wood a document of an ad-hoc outdoor performance with Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson and Jason Kahn.  Prior to that it released The Phantom Sunrise  - a collaboration with Steve Beresford, Blanca Regina and Richard Sanderson and the compilation The Joy Of Isolation - a sonic artefact to accompany the JOY exhibition at The Ceramic House in Brighton - to which he contributed his piece Imaginary Duet.
His latest release with Daniel Spicer is Coastal Fulmar on a split lathe-cut 7" with Daniel's and Ron Caines' Hazeblaze on the flip.  Previously the pair have a cassette, Sepertae, released on Richard Sanderson’s Linear Obsessional label.  Paul's most recent solo albums are a trilogy under the banner Timelag Stasis.  His solo album Peoplegrowold was released on Mark Wastell’s Confront label.
Linear Obsessional also released Paul's duo album with contrabassist Klaus Janek, Cocktail Party.
In 2016, he collaborated with artists Joseph Young and Kay Aplin to produce a series of sound-art concerts and talks featuring Beresford and Regina, Cathy Lane, Felicity Ford, John Kannenberg and Brambling which resulted in his piece, slow kiln, being included on  the Landscape : Islands cassette compilation.  In 2021, he worked with these artists again, contributing an essay to their book Perfection Of Understanding.
His previous work appears on labels including MRM, Lonely Impulse, Linear Obsessional, Absence Of Wax, Crónica, ATTN: Magazine, Korm Digitaal, The Spirit of Gravity, engraved glass and Con-V.  A trio album with Faradena Afifi and Steve Beresford will be released by Discus in 2024.
Paul curates Aural Detritus Concert Series, runs the Aural Detritus and TSOKL labels and writes for The Sound Projector and Honest Music For Dishonest Times.

In the 1990s, Paul studied Fine Art under the photo-montage artist Peter Kennard, endeavouring to combine sound with ideas of protest in his art practice.  He is currently writing a book about his experiences in this period.  After graduating, Paul spent a brief period with Rubber Bus touring the European alternative and festival circuit, before settling in Brighton where he began attending the open sessions of local improvisers The Vitamin B12. Around this time he worked with Lee Adams to contribute soundtracks to short films by Ian Helliwell which were screened at The Lux in Hoxton Square.  He also toured as guitarist for Imitation Electric Piano and contributed to their album Trinity Neon which was released by Duophonic in the UK and Drag City in the US.  A little while later, he participated in the very first sessions organised by Brighton Safehouse.  At this point, he began exploring ways of deliberately scaling down his equipment to an easily portable but effective minimum in an effort to become as self-contained and mobile as possible, enabling him to theoretically perform anywhere.  Simultaneously, he worked as tour manager and live sound engineer for Geoff Smith's touring live soundtrack project Haxan, brokering the inclusion of Smith's new recorded soundtrack on the Tartan DVD release of the film.
In 2008 he was invited to join David Papapostolou and Daniel Jones to perform as a trio at a concert organised by Mark Wastell of Sound 323.  This grouping eventually resulted in a sole, self-titled cd release which - amid a mild furore on the IHateMusic internet forum and broadcast on the Audition programme on Resonance 104FM - acquired the genre-appellation New London Wha’…?
In 2010, Paul set up Aural Detritus Concert Series (adcs), beginning with a concert by Rhodri Davies’, Burkhard Beins’ and Mark Wastell’s trio The Sealed Knot.  This was followed by a concert by a quintet made up of Ryu Hankil, Patrick Farmer, Jez riley French, Daniel Jones and Paul.  2010 also saw the beginning of Paul’s ongoing working relationship with sound artist Simon Whetham.  In 2011 adcs presented a concert by the South Korean sound artists Hong Chulki & Choi Joonyong.  By 2012-13, adcs had become a series of 3-day “micro-festivals” organised in collaboration with Phoenix Brighton featuring a varied collection of artists including Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Michael Fairfax, Robert Curgenven, Tony Bevan, David Lacey, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Dom Lash, Iris Garrelfs, Stephen Cornford & Kostis Kilymis and others.  In February 2020, the final "pre-Covid Lockdown" concert featured Trio Sowari, (Bertrand Denzler, Phil Durrant and Burkhard Beins), and Daniel Spicer and Paul in duo.  Since the pandemic, Aural Detritus teamed up with composer/field recordist Will Montgomery to present a site-specific performance featuring an ad-hoc grouping of Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson, Jason Kahn and Paul which was released as the cd Butchers Wood on the Aural Detritus imprint.  Further site-specific events are in the planning stage.

Paul writes about new music for The Sound Projector and Honest Music For Dishonest Times.

For bookings, production services, or anything else for that matter, please use  slightlyoffkilter@hotmail.co.uk



photo by Marc Lawrence

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