Words and Music

Edward Lee also organises and performs in Words and Music events

Sounds Like

What We Do

Sounds Like is a pool of people who create performances of words (spoken and sung, classical and modern) and music (acoustic, electric and electronic).

Biographies

Ed(ward) Lee started in jazz, and first read English but later obtained a Music degree at Oxford. He spent many years in teaching and contributed significantly to the literature on music education. He has always been interested in composition and in linking words and music.

Frances Lee teaches at the University of Westminster (originally French and now English for Foreign Students). This awakened an interest in reading poems aloud to present them to her students. She decided a few years ago to realise a long-standing ambition to sing, and is currently a member of the City Lit A Cappella Choir.

Jan North works for Camden Council as an Early Years Librarian. She enjoys singing all sorts of music from choral to folk, jazz and more recently a cappella. A few years ago she worked with Ed and Sergio taking a music hall show, Memories in Music to various community venues.

At various times the Sounds Like line-up has also included: Felix Cross (reader/guitarist), Sergio Biseo (bass), Kevin Drake (guitar), Lily Drake (singer), James Gordon (singer/reader), Shane O’Brien (singer/reader), Terry Mortimer (reader/piano/guitar), Edwin Webb (reader)

James Gordon is the author of Rocky Foundations, a novel based on his time with the group CMU. To read an extract from the book, click here. For further information or to buy the book click here www.shantiluyah.co.uk

Currently Sounds Like works in close collaboration with painter Moira Jarvis to link exhibitions and performances. Some of Moira’s paintings can be seen in this website. (including the one on this page). To see or purchase further works go to www.moirajarvis.co.uk

Forthcoming performances by Sounds Like
No advance notices at present.

Sounds Like Recordings

War and Remembrance / Constitution Poets concert, October 2008

On Sunday 26 October 2008 Sounds Like took part in a concert given in Old St Pancras Church, in London.

Click on the titles below to hear excerpts:

Please note that though you will probably find the tracks worth listening to, there are some problems with the technical quality (see accompanying notes for details)

Click here to read notes on the concert, and to hear the complete tracks. These may all be downloaded free.