MIC Dahu Mumagiowner: MuMaGi.com
this DCNote is Personal Introduction Note (PIN)
released: july 2024
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In his early musical career Anthony (aka Dahu - then known as David Huw Davies via adoption) independently studied composers from Purcell and J.S. Bach, through to Beethoven, Debussy, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Stockhausen and John Cage. First learning the piano, classical clarinet and working with Atari computers to produce music, Anthony has frequently looked for ways of fusing the traditional and established with the innovative both in academia and in subculture. Inspired by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and John Coltrane he was trained by British Jazz legends Pete Churchill, Don Rendell, Keith Tippet and American saxophonist Jean Toussaint.
In 1999 he studied ethnomusicology and African Studies at SOAS, after which he released several self produced recording and writings, based on his eponymous 'Mumagi' cosmological platform (1999 - 2015), opened at Steve Bicknels 'Lost' for the legendary Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills, with his musical group Mumagi DuKru (2000, 2001), orchestrated a sold out live music and dance event at London International Jazz Festival in (2003) and toured Europe with Meshell Ndegeocellos 'Spirit Music Jamia' (Jahi Lake, Chris 'Daddy' Dave, Ron Blake, Michael Cain) in 2005. More recently Anthony has contributed saxophone improvisation to an album of bioelectrical recordings with Michael Allen Z Prime on the Mycelial Network project (2022) and is currently working on a 'transdisciplinary composition' entitled 'scrt Ar[T]k', that aims to probe the limits set by transcendental frames of experience.
