Charlie Beresford

UK based artist and musician Charlie Beresford (acoustic guitar/voice) as well as playing solo he is a founding member of Fourth Page and Radnor Improvisers. His musical life has seen him work with artists spanning most genres such as Alexey Kruglov, Orla Wren, Patrick Dawes, Duke Garwood, M.N Hopwood, June Tabor, and the Ian McMillan Orchestra. Alongside this, he has created numerous scores for short films. Licensed music to MTV USA both East and West coast. He has also worked for the likes of Leo Records, Forwind, the BBC, Smooth Operations, Topic Records and Soundtree. In his other life as a visual artist he set up 'The 52nd' project with Quebec based art photographer/filmaker Gaëna Da Sylva details at the52nd.com.

CD/LP/Track Review

The Lightning Bell by John Eyles

“We must hope that the duo repeat their winning formula again soon. This stuff could very easily become habit- forming.” John Eyles All About Jazz (4.5 stars out of 5)

'This is a beguiling album, rich in emotional inflexions. Its mimetic melancholy is offset both by the immediacy of the performance and its poetry. It is really quite beautiful.' Tim Owen Dalston Sound

“a prime example of pure creativity.” The Musician (album was stand out for the issue)

“It's the science of snow, its rarely recurring forms, its logic-defying crystal building and eventual sublimation that this music attempts to convey

“We must hope that the duo repeat their winning formula again soon. This stuff could very easily become habit- forming.” John Eyles All About Jazz (4.5 stars out of 5)

“a prime example of pure creativity.” The Musician (album was stand out for the issue)

“It's the science of snow, its rarely recurring forms, its logic-defying crystal building and eventual sublimation that this music attempts to convey. This stuff comes from a border country and a border state.” Brian Morton The Wire

“If ever a visual artist and technically astounding guitarist were to collide it would be here. Intense, fragile this could stop anybody in their tracks.” Sheffield Telegraph

”Dark like a starless night, beautifully poetic, delicate, haunting, seductive. Compellingly unique and not to be missed.” Jazz Alchemist (Fourth Page)

“ thank heavens there's music like this which puts your head back where it should be....Truly beautiful” Fiona Talkington Late Junction Radio 3

“The quartet's crucial element is Beresford's voice, and that point is made eloquently on the album's twelve-minute opener, “Summon you to me.” For its first half, it is an improvised piece consisting of sparse atmospheric phrases from bowed guitar, piano, bass and drums punctuated by plenty of space. The four are accomplished improvisers, so their phrases combine together effectively into an engaging and enthralling improvisation which could have happily continued for the full length of the track. But, after five- and-a-half minutes, Beresford's voice enters and the focus of the piece shifts dramatically. The music continues much as before but now it seems to accompany the voice; the effect is like one of those optical illusions in which the same thing is seen instantaneously in a different way—here, the entry of the vocals alters the way the music is heard.” (Fourth Page) John Eyles All About Jazz (4.5 stars out of 5)

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