Michel & John, Duo – Take 2, 2018 (excerpt)
Running time: 03:26 minutes / HD / black & white

On one screen, Michel Bonneau playing a hand drum; on the other screen, John Heward playing a drum with mallets.

Camera: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Editing: Patrick Andrew Boivin, Sylvia Safdie
Audio: John Heward – percussion, Michel Bonneau – Percussion

John Heward is internationally recognized as a percussionist/drummer in “free jazz” as well as being a well-known painter and sculptor. Heward has worked with Paul Bley, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee, Malcolm Goldstein, Lori Freedman, Dana Reason and many other musicians.

“I’ve been more or less seriously involved with (hand)drumming since the mid-seventies. By the turn of the century, I found myself…in a bad spot; a major slump, both musical and existential. At that point, I connected with John Heward who introduced me to Free Improvisation. I’ve never looked back since.”
– Michel Bonneau