The Dengie Hundred / TUBE

“Tube is a project that owes everything to Sagome.

In November 2022 I was invited by them to perform at Iklectik with Japan Blues. The support for the evening was another member of the Sagome family, LDGU. On the night LDGU brought along a huge sack of small plastic plumbers tubes, bound with black tape and circled.

When blown through these tiny pipes produced the sound of a light, ethereal drone, almost flute like. The pitch could be modulated by breathing faster or slower through it; a limited but interesting instrument. LDGU handed them out to the crowd and before his set there was a short improvisation with friends using the tubes while wandering around the high beamed Iklectik hall.

I took one, incorporating it into the Japan Blues performance, but by the end of my set it had disappeared from the table I’d placed it on. The tubes were hot property! After the gig I told LDGU that I had lost mine and he generously rushed off to find a replacement – a kind gesture.
Half joking, I told him I would make an album with it…