Offspring Gypsies

Offspring Gypsies consists of five musicians dedicated to exploring the collaborative possibilities of improvised music. Drawing on a wealth of collective musical experience, each player brings both well-honed musical skill and an energetic sense of adventure to the improvised explorations created by the band. Together they generate interesting, and interestingly challenging sounds, the source of which, if the stars align, is ‘the moment’, ‘the now’ - improvisation as a practice, not a product.

Offspring Gypsies instrumentalist bios:

Ash Hall (trumpet)hails from Armidale, and has been performing for a long time both around the New England and afar, leaning towards Jazz/blues/abstraction and beyond, he can swing like mad or whisper a ballad. Exciting but lyrical, with his search for freedom, Ash loves taking the audience with him on his musical journey!"

Steve Harris (drums) has been playing the drums for over forty years, in many musical combinations, across a great many musical styles, and in many places. He brings to the Offspring Gypsies a deep interest in exploring both the possibilities of his instrument and the vast possibilities of musical expression.

Chris Frater (saxes) has been pursuing the skills to perform and contribute to group interaction, free and improvised music for over forty years. He has played with extensively with many groups that have started out as free jam session then evolved into a more standard format. Amongst the first were "Jazz isn't dead it only smells funny" , "the Ferals", "Zoobop" and more recently " Triptych".

Emiliano Beltzer (bass) is an Argentinean born bass and guitar player. He has been part of numerous musical projects that range from heavy metal and hip hop to latin jazz, rock and Latin American folk music. He has had an intense activity as a teacher since age 18, also dabbling as a mixing and recording engineer from time to time. His musical influences and styles change constantly, but rock music is always at the core of every piece of music he makes.

Improvisor Zac Mukgrrngal (guitars/effects) incidentally plays guitar. After 5 years of formal training, he toured nationally and internationally for 15 years. In the minds of many, he currently holds the tenuous role of benevolent dictator in the Anarcho-Syndicalist collective that is Offspring Gypsies, whose perpetual state of revolution ultimately prevails.