SAM: The Collection

Stephen Hiscock on Graham Fitkin's 'Hook' (1992)

Hook was commissioned by my group, ensemblebash,
for our inaugural gig at the Purcell Room on London's South Bank in
January 1992. A couple of us in the quartet (myself and Richard
Benjafield) had been at college in Manchester and had become aware of
Fitkin’s work through the short lived 'classical' division of Factory
Records. We'd also subsequently both performed on a tour of `Drum’, his
piece about the Spanish civil war. We loved his style and felt his
jaggedly rhythmic music would fit perfectly with what we were trying to
do with ensemblebash. [read more]