Greg Malcolm

Just like Jim

Just Like Jim is a mesmerising programme in which Greg Malcolm gives himself over completely to the 1950s Hofner archtop guitar he inherited from his late grandfather, Jim Spence. In a stripped-back sonic world, Greg fuses his long-running fascination with rembetika and klezmer with memories of his grandfather’s love of ‘ham’ radio, pushing the restored guitar to its outer limits. Personal storytelling, extended techniques and rich melodies come together in a spellbinding performance that also addresses the role of the artist head-on. The work ventures into new thematic territory, exploring memory, nature, storytelling, history and the passage of time through a sonic lens that is entirely his own.

Releases

His vinyl releases include: Just Like Jim Ilam Press Records 2021, Don’t Drown Okraïna 2023 with Stefan Neville, Swimming in It Kraak 2005, A Nuance Feeding Tube Records 2018 with Stefan Neville, Jazz School Monotype Records with Eugene Chadbourne 2010.

DVD and CD releases: Some Other Time Kning Disk 2009, Leather and Lacy Interregnum records 2008, Homesick For Nowhere Corpus Hermeticum 2002, Six Strings with Tetuzi Akiyama Korm Plastics (brombron) 2007, International Domestic Corpus (Hermeticum Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura and Bruce Russell) 2003, Surferdelic Proper Records 2001 Surfing USSR, What is it Keith? Proper Records 2000 (Tony Buck, Leo Bachmann, Jenny Ward, Jon Rose, Joe Williamson) and Trust Only This Face Braille Records 12 1995.

Festivals

Greg Malcolm has represented New Zealand at new music festivals around the world, including Safe as Milk in Norway, Densites Festival in France and Full Pull in Sweden. He has been an Artist in Residence in Nijmegen, Holland, and worked with international video artist Amie Siegel at the 5th Auckland Triennial. Greg also wrote a chapter for the book echtzeitmusik berlin and is featured in Guitare Conversation de Noël Akchoté & Philippe Robert, published by Lenka Lente in 2023.

He has performed with Tetuzi Akiyama, Bruce Russell, Eugene Chadbourne, Tony Buck, Jon Rose, Lucien Johnston, Jim Denley, Jeff Henderson, Ignaz Toshimaru Nakamura and Alan Licht.