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My musical life consists of many recordings with various artists. I have participated in several world tours and appeared on television and radio throughout the world. As a member of Spiritualized I arranged brass and played on the Dr John album “Anutha Zone” as well as recording with Spiritualized, the albums “Live at the Albert Hall, Let it Come Down” and “Amazing Grace”. As a member of the Too Pure Records band Moonshake, I recorded two critically acclaimed albums, although sales didn't reflect this !......and played with both Stereolab and Cornershop as well as performing alongside PJ Harvey. With my own free jazz noise band Solar Fire Trio we have released 3 acclaimed albums, with again - not many sales.... HA Ha.. ! I have also recorded and performed with, amongst others: Moose, Lush, Durutti Column, AMP, The Duke Spirit, Six by Seven, Damo Suzuki, Slipstream, Thighpaulsandra, Soulsavers (Mark Lanegan), Suicide, Sonic Youth, Super Numeri, John Moores Revolution 9 and Michael J Sheehey, as well as performing with improvisers Jandek, Philip Marks, Chris Corsano, Brigitte Kuepper, John Butcher, Lol Coxhill, Carlos Zingaro, John Edwards, Martin Kuchen, Jeffery Morgan, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Paal Nilssen-Love, Satoko Fujii, Agusti Fernandez, Tim Daisy, Peter Brotzmann and many more. Currently I am resident in Warsaw and am an active member of the Polish improvised music scene. I am the founder / director and principal conductor of the Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra. I have developed a set of conduction signs and symbols (still ongoing) that I use in the process of Instant Music Composing with the Large Scale Improvising Ensemble - Warsaw Improv' Orch, which can at times be up to 30 players. I am also music director and composer in residence for Theatre Strefa WolnoSłowa, based at Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw, Poland. For the Theatre, I compose and perform music, create installation pieces, and conduct musicians and choir during live shows. I have also completed several soundtracks for documentary films and animations. You wanna' help me out ?.... then check out my Bandcamp page for downloads and purchasing of my music. For full Biog please click ....here Previous Bands as member : Gallon Drunk 1991 – 1992 Skree 1992 – 1994 Moonshake 1994 – 1997 Spiritualized 1997 – 2002 Solar Fire Trio 2004 - Ongoing "Only John Coltrane around ’67 is in any way as brutally wanton as these thugs" - Julian Cope "Solid, savage blurt." - Thurston Moore "Serious fucking shit-kicking sax/drums heads down free-blurt that roars out of the speakers like some long-forgotten ESP-Disk trio who've mainlined that same vein of fuck off that fueled Blue Cheer" - Dr Womm's Medicine Cabinet Loka 2008 - 2012 I occasionally still guest with the band. Current active projects include: Light Star Guiding A quartet of Drums, Double Bass, Electric Guitar and Sax. A trance - time suspending - electric group Casting Lots A quartet of Cello, Percussion Sax and Vocals. Somewhere between Icelandic folk and the avant garde. Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Large scale project which I conduct and direct.Live album from 2015 available to purchase. Currently mixing a studio record, recorded in March 2017. Infant Joy Quintet A 5 piece band exploring the legacy of Albert Ayler. First release "New Ghosts" released on For Tune Records 2014. New ideas coming soon.. Noise of Wings A composition based band, for which I am uncovering and working on songs old and new; recording of first album complete and available via Bandcamp. Current Inactive : Line of Fire A trio of Tenor and Baritone saxophones and drums.Pretty loud. Pretty in your face. Even pretty in some ways.. Osaka Vacuum Trio with cellist Mikolaj Palosz and drummer Pawel Szpura (our first CD Emerging View was released on Slowdown records) The KoM Trio Percussion, Electric Guitar and saxophone. Sounds of the Night Sky Electro Acoustic Project. Drums, Synths, Clarinets and Saxes. A melting pot of sounds, electrical and natural. Pulsaris "bee itch" album releasesd For Tune Records 2014. DCD Trio with Krakow based musicians Michal Dymny and Tomek Choloniewski on guitar and drums respectively. Plus many other Improvised Music Meetings with so many players, to many to mention... I thank you all for including me in your / our ongoing journey in music. Miscellaneous I run workshops in the UK and Europe on Improvising music from small to large ensembles, discussion to practice. I am also a session player for rock bands (contact me if interested in a session) For 4 years, I was the music director for Spacefest Gdansk coordinating, arranging and writing the music for the Pure Phase Ensembles numbers I - IV. See work page for details on Workshops, Private Teaching and Session Work. Use the contact page form to get in touch. Some Past shows :from 10/2011
25/02/2018 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 21/02/2018 Innercity Ensemble Jazz od Nowa Festival Torun Poland 17/02/2018 Light Star Guiding Premier Concert Jazdów Warsaw 28/01/2018 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 26/27/28/01/2018 Music for Theatre "Shortcourse in Running" Lubelska Warsaw 24/01/2018 Word Sound Pool Belarusian House Warsaw 18/01/2018 Casting Lots Pracovnia Warsaw 17/12/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 16+17/12/2017 Music for Theatre "A short course in Running" Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 10/12/2017 Casting Lots 4 Pokoje Praga Warsaw 26/11/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 17/11/2017 Casting Lots ADA Puławska Warsaw 14/11/2017 Casting Lots Chmury Warsaw 1 - 06 / 11 / 2017 Music For Theatre "KOTY" Bologna Italy 29/10/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 22/10/2017 Dickaty / Olter Duo + Malbrott Mozg Warsaw 16/10/2017 Christian Meaas Svendsen Large Ensemble Ch25 Warsaw 17/09/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 09/09/2017 Remont Pomp Festival Integracja Koszalin Poland 07/09/2017 Olter / Dickaty Duo Chmury, Warsaw 20/08/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 12/08/2017 Majewski / Olter / Dickaty Trio Ch25 Warsaw 25/07/2017 Olter / Dickaty Duo Ch25 Warsaw 23/07/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 21/07/2017 Casting Lots Qt. Vega Bar Warsaw 07/07/2017 Galloping Lethargy Improvised Film Soundtrack Grodno Belarus 06/07/2017 Galloping Lethargy Improvised Film Soundtrack Minsk Belarus 24/06/2017 Utopia Performance Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 10/06/2017 Poetry / Dance Improvisation Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 04/06/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 01/06/2017 Pamiętam - I Remember Performance Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 27+28/05/2017 Warsaw Dance Band Poznan 24/05/2017 W.E.G.O Chmury Warsaw 20+21/05/2017 Koty Performance Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 14/05/2017 Casting Lots Qt. Przestrzen Prywatna Warsaw 21/04/2017 Pamiętam - I Remember Performance Teatr Komuna Warsaw 11/04//2017 Casting Lots Qt. Ch25 Warsaw 09/04//2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 19/03//2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 12/03/2017 Dickaty / Dąbrowski Duo Vega Bar Warsaw 04/03/2017 Pamiętam - I Remember Performance Teatr Poznan 02/03/2017 Improv Meeting Eufemia Warsaw 26 - 27/02/2017 Pamiętam - I Remember Performance Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 19/02/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 07/02/2017 Infant Joy Quintet (the Return of....) Chłodna 25 Warsaw 24/01/2107 The Trio Dickaty - Olter - Wójciński Mozg Warszawa 22/01/2017 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 10/01/2017 Dickaty Dąbrowski Duo Chłodna 25 Warsaw 16/12/2016 Poetry and Music Lub Lab Warsaw 27/11/2016 Rimbaud, Ginsberg Sax and Drums Przestrzeń Prywatna Warsaw 20/11/2016 Warsaw Imoprovisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 08/11/2016 Gburek Dickaty Kurek Chłodna 25 Warsaw 06/11/2016 WIO Home Movie Festival Soundtracks Museum Pragi Warsaw 28 - 29/10/2016 Pamiętam - I Remember Performance Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 24 - 27/10/2016 Pamiętam - I Remember Performance Akademie Der Kunste Berlin 22/10/2016 W.I.O with Phil Minton Ad Libitum Contemporary Music Festival Warsaw 25/09/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 24/09/2016 Pure Phase Ensemble 4 with Mark Gardener Liverpool Psych Fest UK 04/09/2016 Dickaty Romanoski Kasperek Trio ADA Pulawska Warsaw 28/08/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 24/07/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 17/07/2016 Performance Polskie Radio Composition and Conduction. Museum Praga 27/06/2016 Teatr Powszechny "I Remember" Composition, Conduction Performance 22/05/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Teatr Powszechny - Garden Warsaw 19/05/2016 Bartek Tkacz / Ray Dickaty Duo Mozg Warsaw 14/05/2016 Interventions the Great Learning By Cornelius Cardew MOMA Warsaw 25/04/2016 Wojtek Traczyk Quintet Pardon To Tu Warsaw 24/04/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 21/04/2016 Duo with Wojtek Więckowski - Guitar Eufemia Warsaw 29/02/2016 Galloping Lethargy Group Improv Chlodna 25 Warsaw 28/02/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 27/02/2016 SDQ Quartet - Staremiejski Dom Kultury Warsaw 21/02/2016 Theatre Performance Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 20/02/2016 Theatre Performance Areszt Śledczy Warsaw 12/02/2016 Bartek Tkacz / Ray Dickaty Duo Mozg Warsaw 31/01/2016 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 07/01/2016 Galloping Lethargy Group Improv Chmury Warsaw 18/19/20/12/2015 Music for Theatre Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 06/12/2015 Noise of Wings Staremiejski Dom Kultury Warsaw 26/11/2015 The 2 Tenors Bartek Tkacz / Ray Dickaty Mozg Warsaw 22/11/2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 15/11/2015 Dickaty / Dabrowski music for Theatre "To Jest Europa" Teatr Powszechny 04.11.2015 Galloping Lethargy Group Improv Eufemia Warsaw 30.10.2015 Noise of Wings Celestynow Poland 24/25.10.2015 Music for "To Jest Europa" Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 20.10.2015 Dickaty / Dabrowski Duo Chlodna 25 Warsaw 04.10.2015 Line of Fire / Saxophone Choir ADA Warsaw 01.10.2015 Dickaty / Cirocki Duo Eufemia Warsaw 27.09.2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 25.09.2015 Tkacz / Dickaty the 2 Tenors Chlodna 25 Warsaw 10.09.2015 Maciej Rodakowski / Ray Dickaty Play the Noise of Wings SDQ Warsaw 30.08.2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 26.07.2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 27.06.2015 The Bicycle Thieves - City Wide Electro-Acoustic Installation Warsaw 19.06.2015 Trio Electronics / Perc / Sax Chlodna Warsaw 13.06.2015 Osaka Vacuum (john Lurie Tribute) Eufemia Warsaw 07.06.2015 Improvisation Festival Chmury Warsaw 06.06.2015 Ray Dickaty / Adam Gołębiewski - Solos Dwa Osiem Warsaw 31.05.2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 30.05.2015 People Animals Compass 3 voices 2 Sax A.D.A Warsaw 28.05.2015 Sounds of the Night Sky Dwa Osiem Warsaw 30.04.2015 Dickaty Tkacz Duo Mozg Warsaw 15.04.2015 Daisy Wójciński Dickaty Trio Klub Dragon Poznan 14.04.2015 Daisy Wójciński Dickaty Trio Alchemia Krakow 13.04.2015 Tim Daisy Wójciński Dickaty Trio Pardon To Tu Warsaw 11.04.2015 Ksawery Wójciński Ray Dickaty Duo Air Lab Warsaw 21.03.2015 Noise of Wings Live Stream LA / Warsaw 19.03.2015 Tkacz Dickaty Duo Eufemia Warsaw 14.03.2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra CSW Laboratorium Warsaw 05.03.2015 Sounds of the Night Sky Electro Acoustic project Mozg Warsaw 20.02.2015 Line of Fire MÓZG Warsaw 11.02.2015 Dabrowski Dickaty Tkacz Eufemia Warsaw 25.01.2015 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 17.12.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Pardon To Tu 1 - 5 /12.2104 Music Director, Spacefest IV, Gdansk 30.10.2014 Line of Fire Czułośc Warsaw 19.10.2014 With Agustí Fernández Ad Libitum festival Warsaw 28.09.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 24.09.2014 Noise of Wings Bar Studio Warsaw 20.09.2014 Wojcinski - Olter - Dickaty Trio Czułośc Warsaw 24.08.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 21.08.2014 Pure Phase with Laetitia Sadier Warsaw 20.08.2014 Pure Phase with Laetitia Sadier Gdansk 31.07.2014 Line of Fire Trio Nowy Teatr Warsaw 21.07.2014 Wojcinski - Olter - Dickaty Trio Eufemia Warsaw 20.07.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 18.07.2014 Intelligent Writing Machines Saxophone Choir Czułości Warsaw 15.07.2014 Infant Joy Quintet Pardon To Tu Warsaw 22.06.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 30.05.2014 Improv Fest Przychodnia Warsaw 17.05.2014 Line of Fire Trio Pardon To Tu Warsaw 11.05.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 08.05.2014 Duo with Bartek Tkacz Fawory Warsaw 26.04.2014 with Satoko Fuji Lublin Jazz Festival Poland 17.04.2014 Noise of Wings Towarzyska Warsaw 06.04.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Powiekszenie Warsaw 06.04.2014 KoM Trio play Ginsberg Dom Kultury Stare Miejski Warsaw 05.04.2014 KoM Trio Coffee Karma Warsaw 27.03.2014 Composers Cookbook, Club for Polish Losers, Berlin, Germany 26.03.2014 Sledziecki - Dickaty - Rogiewicz, Composers Cookbook, Toulouse 22.03.2014 KoM Trio Przestrzen Prywatna, Warsaw 18.03.2014 Wojcinski - Olter - Dickaty Eufemia, Warsaw 17.03.2014 Noise of Wings Fawory Warsaw 11.03.2014 Infant Joy Quintet Chmury Warsaw 05.03.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Powiekszenie 04.03.2014 Dickaty / Szuszkiewicz Duo, Chmury Warsaw 28.01.2014 Dickaty / Szpura Duo, Chumry, Warsaw 22.01.2014 Solar fire Trio Pardon To Tu, Warsaw 19.01.2014 Dickaty - Szuszkiewicz Duo at Praca Warsaw 05.01.2014 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Powiekszenie 15.12.2013 Infant Joy Quintet Powiekszenie Warsaw 14.12.2013 Dickaty / Szpura Duo, Kawiarnia Fawory, Warsaw. 02 - 07.12.2013 Spacefest Gdansk Poland 01.12.2013 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Powiekszenie 17.11.2013 Solo - Praca, Warsaw 05.11.2013 Paal Nilssen-Love - Adam Pultz Melbye - Ray Dickaty Pardon Warsaw 03.11.2013 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Powiekszenie 31.10.2013 KoM Trio Klub Towarzyska Warsaw 22.10.2013 Noise of Wings Eufemia Warsaw 17.10.2013 Concert in Memory of Konrad Chyl Eufemia 13.10.2013 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Powiekszenie 12.09.2013 Guest of Remont Pomp at Powiekszenie 07.08.2013 Brotzmann - Mazzoll - Dickaty - Majkowski Szpura Pardon To Tu Warsaw 31.07.2013 Infant Joy Qt Soundtrack Museum of the History of Polish Jews Warsaw 19.07.2013 Dickaty / Dabrowski Duo Warsaw Summer Jazz Days 17.07.2013 Noise of Wings Quartet Pardon To Tu Warsaw 11.07.2013 KoM Kawiarnia Fawory Warszawa 10.07.2013 DUO Dickaty - Sop Sax Szuszkiewicz - Trumpet Eufemia Warszawa 29.06.2013 Infant Joy + Dabrowski Private event 27.06.2013 the Enigmatics play the music of Niemen Pardon To Tu Warsaw 29.05.2013 Noise of Wings Warszawa 18.05.2013 Infant Joy 6 at Sztuki&Sztuczki Warszawa 14.05.2013 DICKATY DĄBROWSKI KWAPISIŃSKI Eufemia 30.04.2013 Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra at Sztuki&Sztuczki 26.04.2013 Dickaty (sax) Bryndal (bass) Bryndal (drums) at Mito 09.04.2013 Infant Joy 6 Pardon To Tu Warsaw 24.03.2013 Warszawa Improvisers Orchestra Sztuki & Sztuczki Warszawa 28.02.2013 DICKATY/MAŁKOWSKI/KASPEREK/WÓJCIŃSKI + POKUSA Coco de Oro 25.02.2013 Osaka Vaccuum Pardon To Tu Warsaw 07.02.2013 Dickaty - Dymny Eufemia Warsaw 31.01.2013 Duo with Wojciech Kwapisiński Eufemia Warsaw 27.01.2013 Organic Panic Qt Padon To Tu Warsaw 22.01.2013 Solo + Pokusa Pardon To Tu Warsaw 19.01.2013 Dlubak multi media Lodz, Contemporary Art Museum 14.12.2012 Maciej Sledziecki Cookbook Komuna Warszawa 4/8.12.2012 Spacefest Gdansk. 15.11.2012 Dickaty - Dokalski - Kwapisinski - Shalev Projekt A Pardon To Tu Warszawa 07.11.2012 Ray Dickaty Dominik Mokrzewski Duo. Spzitalna Warszawa 27.10.2012 Warszawa Improvisers Orchestra Coco De Oro Warszawa 17.10.2012 Rafał Mazur, Szpura, Dickaty Pardon To Tu Warszawa 15.10.2012 DOKURO (Szelag/The Norman Conquest) Strycharski / DickatyPardon To Tu 11.10.2012 Infant Joy Quintet Eufemia Warsazawa 29.09.2012 Dlubak Premier Warsaw Autumn Festival 12.07 2012 Infant Joy Quartet Pardon To Tu Warsaw 30.06.2012 Electronic Festival with Fuka Lata Eufemia 23.06.2012 Warszawa All Star Danse Band Warsaw 08.06.2012 Solo with Activity Centre Lichtblikino Berlin 07.06.2012 Solo with Sławomir Wojciechowski installation and electronics Berlin 03.06.2012 Solo Nowy Wspanialy Swiat Warszawa 27.05.2012 Slowdown Records Festival Osaka Vacuum Cud na Wisla 19.05.2012 Night of the Museums,Warszawa. Osaka Vacuum, Infant Joy and others 10.05.2012 Trio (Dickaty, Szpura, Wójciński ) Pardon, To Tu Warszawa 20.04.2012 Trio (Dickaty, Szpura,Strycharski ) Skład Butelek Warszawa 25.03.2012 Solo Nowy Wspanialy Swiat Warszawa 23.03.2012 Duo with Piotr Kurek electronics CSW Zamek Ujazdowski 16.03.2012 Infant Joy Sextet at CoCo de Oro 11.03.2012 Osaka Vacuum Pardon To Tu Warszawa 19.02.2012 Dickaty, Palosz Duo Sax and Cello Pardon Tu Tu Warszawa 11.02.2012 Dickaty,Chołoniewski,Dymny Święta Krowa Krakow 10.02.2012 Duo (Dickaty, Szpura) Skład Butelek Warszawa 08.02.2012 Eclipse Trio (Dickaty, Zemler,Wojcinski) Powiekszenie Warszawa 12.01.2012 DK3M Eufemia Warszawa Poland 15.12.2011 Osaka Vacuum Eufemia Warszawa Poland 9/10.12.2011 Spacefest : Concerts: Gdansk Poland 6/8.12.2011 Spacefest : Workshops : Gdansk Poland 30.11.2011 Loka The 100 Club London UK 24.11.2011 Loka Kazimier Liverpool UK 30.10.2011 Organic Panic Quartet NWS Warszawa 28.10.2011 Dk3M Coco De Ora Warszawa 24.10.2011 Hannis Brown + Guests Eufemia Warszawa 20/21.10.2011 New York Session Pardon Tu Tu Warszawa 01.10.2011 Osaka Vacuum BBC Jazz on 3 Chlodna 25 Warszawa |
LINKS For music and videos please click on the following Ray Dickaty Bandcamp Ray Dickaty Soundcloud Ray Dickaty YouTube Solar Fire Trio Bandcamp Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Infant Joy Quintet Pure Phase Ensemble Bandcamp Pure Phase Ensemble Facebook Upcoming ShowsNEED SAX ?
Contact me for : Improv' Music Workshops. Need Horns Live? Recording Sessions ? Or book one of my bands....?? Don't be shy. Contact ; raydickaty@gmail.com 03/2018 - 20/06/2018
Music Improvisation Workshops weekly at, Teatr Powszechny Warsaw 20-24/03/2018
Music for Theatre Workshops + Performance Gdansk Poland 25/03/2018
Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 14+15/04/2018
Music for Theatre "Animals" Teatr Powszechny Warsaw Poland 17+18/04/2018
Music for Theatre "A Short Course in Running" Teatr Powszechny Warsaw Poland 22/04/2018
Light Star Guiding Muzeum Książki Artystycznej Łodz 28/04/2018
Innercity Ensemble DK Kadr Warsaw Poland 18/05/2018
Music for Theatre Workshops + Performance Gdansk Poland 24/05/2018
Light Star Guiding Chłodna 25 Warsaw PL 27/05/2018
Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 10/06/2018
Ray Dickaty - Teo Olter Duo Warsaw Uprising Museum Warsaw PL 17+18/06/2018
Music for Theatre "A Short Course in Running" Malta Festival Poznan Poland 23/06/2018
Music for Theatre "Gods" Premier Teatr Powszechny Warsaw Poland 24/06/2018
Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 05/07/2018
Romanowski - Olter - Dickaty Trio CH 25 Chlodna Warsaw 29/07/2018
Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra Chmury Warsaw 26/08/2018
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