About: Mashu (band)

An Entity of Type: agent, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

MASHU was a Canterbury scene improvisational supergroup that lasted from 1995 to 1998. The name is a reference to Mashu (a mountain in the Epic of Gilgamesh) and a combination of the first two letters of the band members' first names: MArk Hewins (guitar), (percussion), and HUgh Hopper (bass). The band played a handful of shows in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Since then, Hewins and Maïtra have continued to work together on other projects.

Property	Value
dbo:abstract	MASHU was a Canterbury scene improvisational supergroup that lasted from 1995 to 1998. The name is a reference to Mashu (a mountain in the Epic of Gilgamesh) and a combination of the first two letters of the band members' first names: MArk Hewins (guitar), (percussion), and HUgh Hopper (bass). Hopper and Hewins had already been collaborating as a duo when they were joined by Maïtra, formerly of Gong. The band debuted in February 1995 at the Vortex Jazz Bar. A European tour followed in April 1995 from which is taken their only release, Elephants in Your Head? (1996). Saxophonist guested on the first tour date, with saxophonists Didier Malherbe and Elton Dean guesting at a later show. The band played a handful of shows in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Since then, Hewins and Maïtra have continued to work together on other projects. (en)
dbo:activeYearsEndYear	1998-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:activeYearsStartYear	1995-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:background	group_or_band
dbo:formerBandMember	dbr:Hugh_Hopper dbr:Mark_Hewins
dbo:genre	dbr:Improvisation_(music)
dbo:wikiPageID	6797628 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	2110 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	1083138207 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:Improvisation_(music) dbr:Hugh_Hopper dbr:Elton_Dean dbr:Epic_of_Gilgamesh dbr:Gong_(band) dbr:Supergroup_(music) dbc:Canterbury_scene dbc:British_progressive_rock_groups dbr:Didier_Malherbe dbr:Mark_Hewins dbr:Canterbury_scene dbr:Mashu dbr:Frank_van_der_Kooij dbr:Shyamal_Maïtra
dbp:background	group_or_band (en)
dbp:genre	dbr:Improvisation_(music)
dbp:name	Mashu (en)
dbp:origin	England (en)
dbp:pastMembers	Mark Hewins Shyamal Maïtra *Hugh Hopper (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:End_date dbt:England-band-stub dbt:Infobox_musical_artist dbt:One_source dbt:Reflist dbt:Start_date dbt:Use_dmy_dates
dbp:yearsActive	– (en)
dcterms:subject	dbc:Canterbury_scene dbc:British_progressive_rock_groups
gold:hypernym	dbr:Supergroup
rdf:type	owl:Thing schema:MusicGroup schema:Organization dul:Agent dul:SocialPerson dbo:Agent dbo:Group wikidata:Q215380 wikidata:Q24229398 wikidata:Q43229 yago:WikicatBritishProgressiveRockGroups yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:DanceBand108249960 yago:Group100031264 yago:MusicalOrganization108246613 yago:Organization108008335 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:Band dbo:Organisation yago:RockGroup108250501 yago:SocialGroup107950920
rdfs:comment	MASHU was a Canterbury scene improvisational supergroup that lasted from 1995 to 1998. The name is a reference to Mashu (a mountain in the Epic of Gilgamesh) and a combination of the first two letters of the band members' first names: MArk Hewins (guitar), (percussion), and HUgh Hopper (bass). The band played a handful of shows in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Since then, Hewins and Maïtra have continued to work together on other projects. (en)
rdfs:label	Mashu (band) (en)
owl:sameAs	freebase:Mashu (band) yago-res:Mashu (band) wikidata:Mashu (band) https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4rKpR
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Mashu_(band)?oldid=1083138207&ns=0
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Mashu_(band)
foaf:name	Mashu (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of	dbr:Mashu_(disambiguation)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:Mark_Hewins dbr:Mashu_(disambiguation)
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Mashu_(band)

This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License