Lu Edmonds - (UK)
Plays in BANDS
Makes RECORDS
Records, edits and composes MUSIC
Lectures at UNIVERSITIES
Writes reports and does RESEARCH
Speaks English and other LANGUAGES
Lives in LONDON
CURRENTLY
John Lydon's PiL, Mekons and offshoots London-based Mouth, Blabbermouth etc..
Play guitar, cümbüs, saz, Oud, singing, guitar FX, amps, 'acoustic' stuff + ProTools12
Latest CD - "Lost in Tajikistan" (VA) TUGCD1138 on Riverboat Records - my recordings
BANDS
The Damned 1977, Kirsty MacColl 1978, 3 Mustaphas 3 1982, The Waterboys 1983, Mekons & Shriekback 1984, John Lydon's PiL 1986, Yat-Kha 1992, Billy Bragg 1994, Lol Coxhill 2000, Babar Luck 2004, les Triaboliques & Raz3 2007 + one-offs: Laurie Anderson, Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited, Alaap, Yusuf Islam etc.
TRAVELS
Former CCCP, Central Asia, western China, Middle East and bits of Africa + the usual USA, Europe, Far East, OZ/NZ and only twice in Latin America. Grew up in Poland, Venezuela, CCCP, Cyprus, UK.
PROJECTS
Early Internet user, worked with late great Dagfinn Bach on EC Framework IV projects; co-wrote the report that resulted in ZIFF (Zanzibar); spent 9 years in Tajikistan on development projects in music and sound archives; lectures in universities (ICMP, Trinity Laban, Sibelius Academy, WOMEX Academy, AKMP etc.)
Never bored