Monthly Archives: July 2014

Roger Turner and Kazuhisa Uchihashi / Hysteresis

Roger Turner: drums
Kazuhisa Uchihashi: electric guitar, electronics


Note: this is a Safehouse extra mid-month special and is on at Mad Hatters cafe, in the basement. 35 Montpelier Rd, Brighton, BN1 3BA

Roger Turner is a renowned improv drummer who will be familiar to Safehouse-goers for his wild show with Konk Pack a couple of years back.

Pioneering Japanese guitarist Kazuhisa Uchihashi has played with Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero, and also turns his hand to daxophone and electronics.

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HYSTERESIS

Charlotte CHW: body / movement
Jason Williams: saxophone

Jason Williams is known for his sometimes blood-spattered experiments with electric guitars and panes of glass. Charlotte CHW makes visceral performance art. Together they form the new duo Hysteresis, and they describe it thusly:

“Static and kinetic abstract formations. Body-object relations. Stage as palette, Tableau Vivant noise constructions. Contact / instant composition. Shared electronic signal generation. Auto-destruction. Trigger objects. Reaction cues.”

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More to be announced!

Alan Tomlinson Trio / Painiak

Alan Tomlinson: trombones
Dave Tucker: guitar
Phil Marks: drums


A welcome return of the hugely entertaining trombone virtuoso with ex-Fall guitarist Dave Tucker and Mancunian drummer Phil Marks.

“He can make the trombone sound like frustrated elephants courting or like the finish at Brands Hatch.” – Melody Maker

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Painiak

James Parsons: drums
Daniel Spicer: percussion, voice

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The Wildcard Quartet
Dave Allen: electric guitar
Peter Pick: saxophone
Monty Oxymoron: keyboard / percussion
Clive Craske: percussion