Rachel Musson
Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer based in the UK. She has spent the last decade immersed in improvised music and has also gradually been introducing composed elements into her work, drawing on text, field recordings and processing sounds. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward, and Alex Hawkins amongst others. She features on several releases, including a nonet featuring her composition ‘I Went This Way’ (577 Records), two with Shifa, feat. Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, (577 Records), one with Mark Sanders and John Edwards (Two Rivers Records), trio with Liam Noble and Mark Sanders (Babel), and Corey Mwamba (Takuroku).
A current recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation composers award, Rachel’s recent work has drawn on field recordings from West Wales and London, weaving together an abstract narrative of changing relationships to the land, culminating in her album Ashes and Dust, Earth and Sky.
"A free-improviser sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing" – John Fordham, The Guardian
