"Julie Tippetts (born Julie Driscoll, 8 June 1947) is an English singer and actress, known for her 1960s versions of Bob Dylan and Rick Danko's "This Wheel's on Fire", and Donovan's "Season of the Witch", both with Brian Auger and The Trinity. Along with The Trinity, she was featured prominently in the 1969 television special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, singing "I'm a Believer" in a soul style with Micky Dolenz. She and Auger had previously worked in Steampacket, with Long John Baldry and Rod Stewart.

"This Wheel's on Fire" reached number five in the United Kingdom in June 1968. With distortion, the imagery of the title and the group's dress and performance, this version came to represent the psychedelic era in British rock music. Driscoll recorded the song again in the early 1990s with Adrian Edmondson as the theme to the BBC comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, the main characters of which are throwbacks to that era.

Since the 1970s, Driscoll has concentrated on experimental vocal music. She married jazz musician Keith Tippett and collaborated with him and now uses the name Julie Tippetts, adopting the original spelling of her husband's surname. She took in Keith Tippett's big band Centipede and in 1974 sang in Robert Wyatt's Theatre Royal Drury Lane concert. She released a solo album, Sunset Glow in 1975; and was lead vocalist on Carla Bley's album Tropic Appetites and also in John Wolf Brennan's "HeXtet".

Later in the 1970s, she toured with her own band and recorded and performed as one of the vocal quartet Voice, with Maggie Nichols, Phil Minton, and Brian Eley.

In the early 1980s, Julie Tippetts was a guest vocalist on an early single by pop-jazz band Working Week, on the song "Storm of Light", which brought them to the attention of a wider audience."

"Tobias Delius was born on 15 July 1964 in Oxford, England. He began playing saxophone in 1980 in the German Ruhr region. In 1983/84 he lived in Mexico City where he played in the "Cuarteto Mexicano de Jazz" led by pianist Francixco Téllez.

Delius moved to Amsterdam in 1984 and studied for a short while at the Sweelinck Conservatorium. He quickly became involved with Amsterdam improvisers and dropped his studies to immerse himself in the improvised music scene. In 1990 he was awarded the Podiumprijs from the organisation Stichting Jazz in Nederland. He has worked in Europe and overseas with such musicians as Steve Lacy (October Meeting '91), Louis Moholo's Viva-la-black (South Africa '93), Bill Frisell, Mark Feldman and Trio Clusone (Clusone Jazz '93), Misha Mengelberg ("Pollo de Mare", Angelica '96 in Bologna), Steve Beresford ("Signals for Tea", Vancouver '98), Jeb Bishop, Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake (Chicago 2001) and Ray Anderson (Rotterdam, '01).

Tibias is currently based in Berlin where ihe is an active member of the improvised community performing regularly with Axel Dörner, Christian Lillinger, Clayton Thomas, Liz Albee and many others."

"Paul Dunmall was born 1953, Welling, Kent; saxophones, clarinets, bagpipes, miscellaneous wind instruments.

As told to Watson (1989), Paul Dunmall was a working class lad from Welling who left school at 15 and spent two years repairing instruments at Bill Lewington's shop in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. He turned professional at 17 and, following two years touring Europe with a progressive rock band (Marsupilami), joined the Divine Light Mission, a spiritual movement led by Guru Maharaj Ji and moved from London to an ashram in America. He told Isham (1997), 'I moved to an ashram full of musicians - a music ashram - but it was still spiritual practice. That gave me a spiritual understanding through meditation, Coltrane's music, and all the rest of it, led me to that, and that's been a fundament in my life ever since - that I can actually sit down and meditate and forget my body. I realise how important meditation is in my life... but I don't do it so much these days.' During the three years he lived in America, Dunmall played with Alice Coltrane (in a big band with the Divine Light Mission) and toured for twelve months with Johnny 'Guitar' Watson.

Back in England, he played with Danny Thompson and John Stevens as well as folk musicians Kevin Dempsey, Martin Jenkins and Polly Bolton and then, in 1979 he became a founder member of Spirit Level (Tim Richards, piano; Paul Anstey, bass; Tony Orrell, drums), staying with the group until 1989. During his time with Spirit Level, Dunmall joined the two-tenor front line group Tenor Tonic with Alan Skidmore (1985), played and broadcast with Dave Alexander and Tony Moore in the DAM trio (1986) and formed the Paul Dunmall Quartet with Alex Maguire, Tony Moore and Steve Noble (1986).

In 1987 Paul Dunmall joined the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, being a constant member and appearing on all their recorded output from that date onward. The following year the improvising collective quartet Mujician was formed by Keith Tippett, Dunmall, Paul Rogers and Tony Levin and has continued to be a regular performing, touring and recording group, sometimes augmented by other musicians. Dunmall has also played in a trio with Keith and Julie Tippetts and in Keith Tippett's big band Tapestry. Two other duos have also sprung out of Mujician: Dunmall with Tony Levin (two CD releases) and Dunmall in folk-influenced outings with Paul Rogers. Another regular playing partner throughout this period and up until the present includes Elton Dean.

In 1995, two trios were formed, the first with Oren Marshall, tuba and Steve Noble, percussion, the second with John Adams, guitar and Mark Sanders, percussion, these sometimes coming together as a quintet. More recently, Dunmall has played in another reeds/guitar/drums trio with Philip Gibbs and Tony Marsh and there appears to be regular crossover between all these players. The Paul Dunmall Octet was founded in 1997."

Dunmall also has released a large number of albums and a box set on the UK FMR label, in various configurations and instrumentation.

"Hilary Jeffreys was born in 1971 in Surbiton, England, works as a musician and is currently based in Berlin. His musical career started with a journey to the Sahara Desert in 1990 and the sense of silent space which he experienced there is a sustaining influence on his work. He took a degree in music at Dartington College of Arts and the University of York between 1990 and 1993. Early contact with UK jazz musicians such as Paul Dunmall and Keith Tippett have had a lasting influence on Hilary's approach to music. After completing his studies he became a freelance musician. His early engagements include a tour of UK, Scandinavia, Europe and North America with an Anthroposophic theatre company called Portal Productions for a new version of Rudolf Steiner's fourth mystery play "The Soul's Awakening". After completing this tour Hilary settled in London, worked as a session musician and taught music to theatre students at Queen Mary and Westfield College and Central School of Speech and Drama. During this time he also worked on many compositions including solo pieces for trombone and for the Slovakian cello player Jozef Lupták.

In 1998 he moved to Arnhem, Netherlands to study music composition for dance and trombone with the American composer-trombonist James Fulkerson. After completing this year of study Hilary continued his freelance work in UK and Netherlands, moving between Arnhem, London, York, Oxford, The Hague and Birmingham. During this time he also took classes in electronic music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague, recorded several albums, toured throughout Europe and played twice in Tokyo for a dance production by the Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara. In 2002 he settled in Amsterdam and became part of the music scene there, performing in many clubs and theatres as well as curating his own club nights and organising funded projects including a research project at Steim. A lot of Hilary's music at this time focused on improvisation and jazz, included work with the saxophonist Tobias Delius and the formation of several ad-hoc ensembles. A European tour with the Jimi Tenor Big Band in 2003 kicked off an active touring life, with recording sessions, theatre / dance shows and composition commissions in between life on the road!

In 2007 he was invited to join the ensemble zeitkratzer, based in Berlin. This invitation, combined with many other contacts with the thriving music scene there resulted in a move to Berlin in 2011. In 2013 Hilary started to study Dhrupad with Amelia Cuni, aiming to apply techniques of this Indian classical music tradition to the trombone, they also recorded and performed together as Tonaliens with Werner Durand and Robin Hayward. Since moving to Berlin Hilary has also played at most of the major stages and festivals in the city including Berghain, Club Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, HAU, Jazzfest, März Musik, Hamburger Bahnhof, Silent Green and Volksbühne. Berlin based ensembles with whom he currently works include Zinc & Copper, Minor Tom, Tonaliens, Mullet and Mouse On Mars Dimensional People Ensemble.

Hilary travels widely, performing in major international stages and festivals worldwide. He has received composition commissions for Slagwerk Den Haag, GRM Acousmonium, David Kweksilber Big Band, Apa Ini and his ensemble Minor Tom. He has been invited for artistic residences such as Recollets in Paris (2012), won the Henriette Bosmans Prize for his composition "Vishnu Stockings" (Netherlands, 2009) and appears in many different recordings on various labels including Aquarellist, Bocian, Col Legno, Comatonse, Edition Telemark, Fat Cat, Faux Amis, Fourth Dimension Records, FMR, Dilemma, Important Records, Mikroton, New World Records, Philophon, Shhpuma, Silent Records, Soul Jazz, Sloow Tapes, Sub Rosa, Subtext, Zeitkratzer Records and Karl Records."

"Eleni Poulou is a musician, composer, DJ, radio host, and zine author. As a solo artist and with various bands - including The Fall, Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Organza Ray, and NOHE NOSHE - she has performed internationally. She currently collaborates with Wolfgang Seidel and James "Jeanette" Main (as ULR). In 2022, Poulou co-founded the band Organza Ray with Hilary Jeffery; together, they initiated the ensemble E.T.U.D.E., dedicated to exploring the Fluxus works of Philip Corner and performing his new compositions alongside Theresa Patzschke and Zsolt Sores. Poulou has collaborated with artists such as Petr Step Kišur (founder of the Honey Suckle Company), with whom she performed as the duo NOHE NOSHE, and Iris Touliatou, composing sound pieces for installations at Kunsthalle Basel and Grazer Kunstverein. She regularly hosts her own radio shows, including "Elope" on Cashmere Radio and "Kastra" on Stegi Radio, and has appeared as a guest on Montezpress Radio, Rinse France, RTM FM, Noods Radio, and NTS. Her most recent solo album, Karta (2022), fuses Pontic music from Greece with electronic club sounds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Poulou is also co-curator of this year's edition of the KRAMA Festival in Athens."