Charlie Cawood
| Charlie Cawood | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 March 1988 Barking, London, England |
| Origin | Ilford, London, England |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | musician, music journalist |
| Instruments | guitar, bass guitar, sitar, pipa, zhongruan, daruan, liuqin, oud, saz, bouzouki, cümbüs, tzouras, cuatro, European lute, hammered dulcimer, zither, lyre, lap harp, gamelan, keyboards |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Bad Elephant Music, Inside Out |
| Associated acts | Knifeworld, Mediaeval Baebes, Hafdis Huld, Tonochrome, My Tricksy Spirit, Spiders of Destiny, Khronicles, Achilla, Lost Crowns, Admirals Hard, Prescott, Sophie Ramsay, Opaz Ensemble, Olcay Bayir, Matt Stevens, Neurotic Mass Movement, Nick Prol & The Proletarians, LSO Community Gamelan Group, Lila Cita, Chamber Music Company, Yin Yang Collective, Alla Seydalieva, Temujin Ensemble |
Charlie Cawood is an English multi-instrumental musician, composer and music journalist.
He is known for his cross-disciplinary musical skills, as well as his work with a wide variety of projects and artists. An active member of Knifeworld, Mediaeval Baebes, My Tricksy Spirit and Tonochrome, he's worked in art rock, pop, folk and early music as well as Indian, Chinese and Balinese music and a variety of other forms.
His first solo album, The Divine Abstract, was released in 2017.
Cawood is a native Londoner who began playing guitar at the age of eleven and soon developed a strong interest in experimental rock music. Educated at Loxford School of Science and Technology and training with Redbridge Music Services, he took classical exams up to ABRSM Grade 8, also playing in the RMS guitar ensemble and the Redbridge Youth Jazz Orchestra (winning the Jack Petchey Achievement award as well as the guitar prize at the Stratford & East London Music Festival two years running). While still a teenager, Cawood became interested in the music of other cultures. Learning flamenco guitar at Escuela de Baile, he also branched out into studying the music of India, China and Bali via the Asian Music Circuit, learning the sitar under Mehboob Nadeem and the Chinese pipa lute under Cheng Yu (leader of the UK Chinese Music Ensemble) during summer schools at the Royal Academy of Music).
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