Not only that, the 66-year-old Londoner will also be appearing at the 40th Brecon Jazz Festival this weekend., external
There he will be joined by long-time musical collaborator Gaz Williams, the duo promising an “utterly unique” immersive sound and light experience at the town’s cathedral on Saturday, 10 August.
But rather than a set of turntables, both will be playing a modular synthesizer – to the uninitiated, a baffling box of switches, dials, sliders and wires – to create hypnotic soundscapes of loops, samples drones and textures.
“What we do isn’t jazz as such, but we are improvising and that’s very jazz-like,” said Davis, who now lives just the other side of the Severn Bridge.
“I also used to improvise whenever I played snooker because I never knew what the next shot was going to be.
“So I’m still doing exactly what I’ve done all my life really.”
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