Frantisek Sic - Frantasmagoria

Frantasmagoria is a jazz quartet featuring tenor sax, drums, electric bass and electric guitar, based in Machynlleth, Wales, UK. Frantisek Sic founded the band which came together as a quartet in 2022 with Franta on sax, Steve Howlett on guitar, Henry Crun on drums and Katie West on double bass. Katie’s solo career took her away from us but we had two great bass players depping for us in David Spivack and Aled Williams. In 2024, we found Barry Wise, who quite fancied the gig, and that’s Frantasmagoria.

The music is inspired by great jazz composers including Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Nat Adderley and Eddie Harris, but the first and biggest influence is the music of Thelonious Monk. We believe Monk created some of the coolest music ever. Simple, deep and so funky.

Jazz, Funk and Blues it's who we are…