The Artaud Beats is a progressive rock band consisting of John Greaves (bass, vocals), Chris Cutler (drums) and Geoff Leigh (soprano sax, flute, vocals, electronics), all formerly members of Henry Cow, and Yumi Hara Cawkwell (piano, vocals).
[1] Cawkwell and Leigh had released an album together, Upstream, and were booked to play the Avantgarde Festival (Schiphorst, Germany) in 2009 having previously toured Japan.
Cutler and Greaves were both attending the same festival to play with the Peter Blegvad Trio and Dagmar Krause.
Adopting the name The Artaud Beats, they performed at the Nødutgang Festivalen [no:Nødutgangfestivalen] in 2011 and played a ten-date Japanese tour in June 2012.
The CD Logos was released in 2015 – they played a presentation concert in Paris.