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VOLE

Roland Ramanan: trumpet
Roberto Sassi: electric guitar
Tom Greenhalgh: drums

Note venue change: this show will now be held at the Cowley Club, rather than the Open House.


Improvisation lies at the heart of Vole’s music but always framed within compositions that bring to bear their experiences of playing art-rock, groove-improv, punk, funk and jazz.

“By turns floating, funking and punking out, Vole stuff a range of influences and compositional devices into an improvised funnel and let them splatter all over the audience.” – Vortex Jazz Club

Take a listen to their excellent new album, due for release in November:

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Nil
Dan Powell: small objects
Chris Parfitt: soprano sax and more objects
Their performance at this year’s Supernormal festival had everyone smiling ear-to-ear, so let’s see what they conjure up next.

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The Wildcard Quartet

KONK PACK

Tim Hodgkinson: lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinet
Roger Turner: drums & percussion
Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer

Note venue change: this show will now be held at the Cowley Club, rather than the Open House.


Konk Pack have quite a line-up: Tim Hodgkinson was the co-founder of legendary avant-rockers Henry Cow in 1968; Roger Turner is one of the most inventive improv drummers going, as his many visits to Safehouse have shown; and Thomas Lehn is a master of the analogue synth, his favourite being the EMS synthi A.

Here’s what people are saying…

“Konk Pack are utterly awesome. The show is awkwardly brilliant and defiant. With startling combinations of punkish nuisance, ingenious change-ups, and rolling, stumbling, tripping and flipping sound inventions, Konk Pack are one of the most exciting Improv groups in the world.”
The Wire

“Konk Pack boasts a line-up that springs from diverse quarters, combining to make a gloriously intuitive barrage of sounds, both soft and savage. “
All About Jazz

“Konk Pack played an unbroken 45 minute set: fun debris, rollicking freakouts … and one magical section of scrape and pling where the music seemed to play itself.”
The Wire

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Mandarin Splashback
Dan Spicer: voice
Tom Roberts: objects, electronics
Sound poetry and contact mic’d antics from this lesser spotted duo.

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Branch Medley
Iain Paxon: bicycle

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The Wildcard Quartet

HEIMWEH + Alberto Popolla / Noel Taylor

Alberto Popolla: bass & soprano clarinets
Alessandro Salerno: baritone guitar
Francesco Lo Cascio: vibraphone
Mario Paliano: drums, percussion

This evening’s groups are drawn from the Franco Ferguson Collective, an improvising movement based in Italy. They get together in Rome every month at a club called Fanfulla, and the musicians play in improvised groups of 4 or 5, playing short sets through the night. It’s a little like an Italian version of Safehouse, but with better light shows.

Heimweh is the German for ‘homesick’. Here they are playing in a nightclub in Rome:

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Alberto Popolla: alto & soprano clarinet
Noel Taylor: soprano & bass clarinet

“One of the most delightful wind duos I’ve heard for a long time” – Joe Higham, The Free Jazz Collective

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Note: This will be held at our new venue – upstairs at Good Companions pub, 132 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3TE.

Shatner’s Bassoon + The Black Neck Band of the Common Loon

Oliver Dover: saxophone
Craig Scott: guitar
Johnny Richards: keyboard
Mick Bardon: bass
Andrew Lisle: drums
Joost Hendrickx: drums


Shatner’s Bassoon are a group of six Leeds based composers/improvisers. The group have built up their own sound based on developing complex compositional structures through improvisation. Influences include Mr. Bungle, John Zorn and Frank Zappa.

When they played the excellent Tinderbox festival in Oxford, they garnered this review:
They have plenty of all-out free passages, but also some tightly arranged heads and traditional jazz solo spaces. There’s a Hancockesque Rhodes sound ladled liberally, and some nods towards supper jazz, reggae and even calypso in the maximalist compositions, proving that sense of humour is as high on their list as a sense of exploration. Shatner’s Bassoon are funny without being silly and musically intricate without being introspective. Chris Morris would be proud.

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The Black Neck Band of the Common Loon
Blue Pin: percussion and recorder
Andy Pyne: drums
Jason Williams: saxophone

“A healthy, and at times horrifying, forest full of instruments and sounds” – Foxy Digitalis

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

The Heat Death + West Hill Blast Quartet

Martin Küchen: saxophones
Kjetil Møster: saxophones and clarinet
Mats Äleklint: trombone
Ola Høyer: bass
Dag Erik Knedal Andersen: drums

The Heat Death is a Swedish/Norwegian band consisting of some key players of the vibrant Scandinavian improvised music scene. The quintet makes eclectic and ecstatic music propelled forward by an intelligent and intuitive interplay.

Outside of this group these players have their fingers in many other musical pies, such as The Cherry Thing, DATAROCK and AKODE (who played in Brighton not so long ago with the mighty Alan Wilkinson).

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West Hill Blast Quartet
Ron Caines: saxophone
Dan Spicer: words and trumpet
Gus Garside: double bass
Andy Pyne: drums
They sent out Brighton Poetry Festival with a bang, and now they return yelping and squealing for more.

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Mopomoso On Tour

We’re very excited to be hosting Mopomoso for this special show. Guitarist John Russell founded Mopomoso in 1991, along with trumpeter and composer Chris Burn, and they have since put on over 300 shows at London’s Vortex club. This night brings together some of the key players that have made Mopomoso what it is over the years: Evan Parker, John Russell, John Edwards, Pat Thomas, Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor, David Leahy, Alex Ward and Kay Grant.

We’ve chosen a different venue for this show – the Friends Meeting House in Ship Street. It has an excellent acoustic and more space than our usual venue, and also a grand piano which should come in handy for Pat Thomas’s set.

The show starts a bit earlier than usual as well – doors are at 7pm and the first act is on at 7.30pm.

Tickets are £6 (or £5 for members and unwaged) and are available online here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213461, and at Resident Records (01273 606312), and will also be on the door on the night .

Workshop
There is also an afternoon workshop which will be led by John Russell. It runs from 3-5pm, and is also at the Friends Meeting House. Tickets are £10, or £8 for Safehouse members. You can find out more about it here.

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213463

Update: There are also now discount tickets online for both the workshop and evening show, priced at £12 – http://www.wegottickets.com/event/218638

House Full of Floors:
Evan Parker: saxophones
John Russell: guitar
John Edwards: bass
They played a storming set at Safehouse in 2008, so we’d say this one is pretty much guaranteed to set your ear hairs on fire.


Pat Thomas: piano, keyboards
Pat Thomas is a mesmerising presence on stage and we’re really delighted to have him play at Safehouse. He has an intriguing discography, in that he’s played with many of the well-known UK improvisors such as Phil Minton, Lol Coxhill and Derek Bailey (as part of Company Week), but also with musicians from further afield such as Jim O’Rourke, Eugene Chadbourne, Rhys Chatham and Fred Frith.


Alison Blunt Trio
Alison Blunt: violin
Benedict Taylor: viola
David Leahy: bass
Alison Blunt’s playing is unique. Eerie gut-ripping rattles and chokes from hell are interrupted by ringing notes of heavenly hope. I have never heard anything like it” – Jeffery Taylor.

Alex Ward: clarinet
Kay Grant : vocals
Fast Talk, the title of the album Ward and Grant released last year, neatly captures the instant rapport they have as a live duo, the human-like squeals and moans of Ward’s clarinet perfectly responding to Grant’s ululations. “Like the conversations of a long-married couple who both talk at once, finishing each other’s sentences and occasionally contradicting or explaining what the other one meant” – John Eyles, All About Jazz.


The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.


4thirtythree + Gus Garside / Annie Kerr

Stuart Revill: guitar / loops / percussion
Tim Rancelant: sax / spoken word / percussion
Chris Parfitt: piano / sax/ flute / loops / percussion / voice


4thirtythree create instant compositions out of loops, snatches of spoken word and whatever else comes off the tops of their heads. Their debut album Switch was described as “refreshingly free of cliché, proudly non-idiomatic and actually kind of fun” by Daniel Spicer in Jazzwise magazine. Here’s a track from it…

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Guitarist Stu Revill, one of the founders of Safehouse, is moving permanently to Vancouver shortly after this gig, so it looks to be a special one, not least as it’s within Safehouse that the band came together and evolved. While it’s not their last hurrah – there are plans to record and gig in the future – there may be a tangible ‘end of an era’ feel to the evening!

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Gus Garside: double bass
Annie Kerr: violin

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Tasos Stamou + Terry Day

Tasos Stamou: homemade instruments
Terry Day: drums and pipes


Tasos Stamou makes his own electroacoustic instruments, software and sound sculpture. He has performed live in venues across Europe, from Athens to Berlin and London, usually solo, but sometimes with collaborators such as Adam Bohman and Terry Day. He runs Kukuruku Recordings, an independent label for electroacoustic sound works.

Terry Day was a founder member in 1965 of the legendary People Band, in which he played drums and myriad other instruments. Alongside this he contributed to some notable improv bands such as Alterations, which included Steve Beresford, David Toop and Peter Cusack; Derek Bailey’s Company; and The Promenaders with Lol Coxhill. He makes his own bamboo pipes, writes poems and is known to play the balloon.


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Jamie Sturrock: electric guitar

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Phil Minton + Sun Music

Phil Minton: voice



Phil Minton is a master vocalist and we’re excited to have him play a solo show at Safehouse. He started out in the ’60s playing trumpet with dance bands, then progressed to touring the world with Mike Westbrook’s big band as a singer and hornsman. For the past 30 years he has focused on improvised vocalising, emitting forth deep burbles of sound on stage with the likes of Roger Turner, Fred Frith, Veryan Weston and many more. He’s also known for his Feral Choir, an ongoing workshop and performance piece in which he conducts volunteer singers in a chorus of hellish grunts and whimpers.

Minton’s stomach, throat and face stretched and strained, as he extruded hisses, screeches, ticks and hums, interspersed with mere whispers and the carefree freedom of bird calls. Porcine snuffles and snorts, and animal utterances suggested marsupial territoriality and human frailty, conveying echoes of a deep, unspoken sorrow. ” – Geoff Winston, London Jazz News

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Sun Music

Brighton composer Martin Messent presents a performance of his piece Sun Music.

“Sun Music is derived from tones generated inside the sun, revealed by the science of helioseismology; recordings of these sound waves made by Alexander Kosovichev at the Stanford Solar Centre reveal distinct pitches. The musical material is developed from combining these pitches with compositional techniques analogous to real, physical characteristics of different processes inside the sun. Part composed and part improvised, it is performed by a sextet and trio.” – Martin Messent

Ian Price: bass clarinet
Martin Messent: organ, singing bowls
Alistair Strachan: trumpet
Adam Swayne: piano
Mark Treffel: synthesizers
Christine Diallo: bolon, krin
Alice Eldridge: cello

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Shih-Yang Lee / Benedict Taylor / Alice Eldridge / Gus Garside + Arena di Avant Musica Contemporary

Shih-Yang Lee: piano
Benedict Taylor: viola
Alice Eldridge: cello
Gus Garside: double bass



This is a Safehouse-related event and takes place at Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton BN1 1AF

PLEASE NOTE EARLY START: 7.30pm- 9.00pm (doors open 7.00pm)

Tickets £10 (£7 concessions) – on the door or in advance from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/237692 or concessions at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/237693

Shih-Yang Lee is one of the greatest musical talents in Taiwan. He is the founder and coleader of the improvisation group Ka Dao Yin, whose first album “Four Characters” won the Taiwan Golden Indie Music Award. After more than twenty years of classical and conservatory training, he became interested in improvisation. After performing with the great Fred Van Hove at the Meteo Festival in France, Shih-Yang will be coming to the UK for the first time. Tonight sees him with working with a string trio of three well respected UK improvisers.

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Arena di Avant Musica Contemporary music-theatre featuring Chien-Chun Lin (Voice) and I-Chin Li (Piano/ Laptop), Jonathan Whitten (Tuvan throat singing) and Tom Jackson (saxophones)

Shih-Yang Lee (piano) is one of the greatest musical talents in Taiwan. He is the founder and co-leader of the improvisation group Ka Dao Yin, whose first album “Four Characters” won the Taiwan Golden Indie Music Award. After more than twenty years of classical and conservatory training, he became interested in improvisation. After performing with the great Fred Van Hove at the Meteo Festival in France we are delighted to welcome ShihYang to the UK for the first time.

Benedict Taylor (viola) is a London based violist, specialising in contemporary music and improvisation. He performs and records throughout the UK, Europe and Asia as a soloist and ensemble performer with improvisation groups, new music ensembles, electroacoustic groups and full orchestras, in many of the world’s leading festivals and venues. He collaborates with composers, modern dance and theatre companies, visual & sonic artists and filmmakers.

Alice Eldridge (cello) is an improvising cellist, producer and researcher in biologicallyinspired sound systems. She has a PhD in cybernetically-inspired software for improvisation from University of Sussex, where she currently teaches Generative Creativity. After a few years with her solo cello-laptop AV duo Alice and her Self-Karaoke Machines, she now improvises with humans: with PRSF Women Make Music awardees Collectress, and in various ongoing duos with Ollie Bown (Icarus), Ron Caines (East of Eden), as one half of Duot with bass player Seth Bennett and as a vibrant member of Brighton’s Safehouse Collective.

Gus Garside (double bass) has worked in a variety of musical settings: jazz, contemporary music, pop, cabaret, dance, theatre and, most importantly, improvised music. He currently performs and records with a number of improvisation and contemporary music groups including his long standing string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill) and Static Memories, a duo with Dan Powell (on laptop and processed percussion and guitar). “where he differs from the average jazz bassist is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his instrument” Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD.

I-Chin Li (Piano/ Laptop) After graduating composer and pianist I-Chin Li was commissioned by many contemporary theatre and modern dance companies and film directors in Taiwan. He combines ethnic fusions, improvisation, live electronics and experimental Avant Garde and modern interactive theatre. He has toured New York, Berlin, Köln, Darmstadt, Sydney, Canberra and London He is currently based in London where he is studying a music PhD.

Chien-Chun Lin (Voice) Soprano Chien-Chun Lin graduated with honour from the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. She continued her studies in Berlin and Rome and is currently an MPhil/PhD student at Goldsmiths in London. She has performed regularly in opera houses and concert halls with classical repertoire like Verdi’s Rigoletto and art songsfrom Mozart, Berg and others. She has also performed many contemporary vocal works and is developing her contemporary music theatre practice.

I-Chin and Chien-Chun have created the contemporary music theatre company Arena di Avant Musica and in their performances they work with a number of artists from differentdisciplines musician, dancers etc. In this concert they will appear with Jonathan Whitten (Tuvan throat singing) and Tom Jackson (saxophones)

Tony Bevan + Hákarl

Tony Bevan: bass saxophone


Tony Bevan began playing the soprano sax at age sixteen, inspired by the dislocated rhythms of Captain Beefheart and the endless repetitions of Terry Riley, and encouraged by fellow Aylesbury town boy Lol Coxhill, who was kind enough to give him his first soprano lesson. A year later he bought a tenor sax, and quickly added Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Warne Marsh to his list of influences. Around this time he also discovered the music of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Han Bennink via ‘Topography of the Lungs’ and thereafter he dived headlong into the world of improvised music.

Over the last four decades he has played with Sunny Murray, Adam Bohman, Chris Corsano, Derek Bailey and countless other pioneers of free music. He has a powerful sound, built around circular riffs and refrains and the sheer oomph of the bass saxophone – indeed Time Out once described him as “the world’s greatest improvising bass saxophonist”.

Alongside this he runs his own record label: Foghorn records

One of the unsung heroes of modern British music” – Ben Watson

Here’s a great piece he recorded with Derek Bailey, Sonic Pleasure and others a few years ago:

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Hákarl
Improvising violin/ guitar/ other-ist, Hákarl is the solo project of West Country born but Brighton-based Kev Nickells. Hákarl is sometimes one and sometimes many. Shows this year have included an improvised covers set for Splitting the Atom, a 12 hour performance at the Coach House (with the Carousel Collective/ Adam Bushell/ Nil), an evening of John Cage compositions at Brighton Unitarian Church and performing the graphic scores of Lama Dalai at Supernormal festival Oxfordshire – the same festival at which he performed for 36 non-stop hours in 2011 (along with Seth Cooke, Clive Henry, Jamie Glew-Osborne, Huw Webb and Barnabas Yianni) and has been involved in curating for 2012/3.

For the Safehouse Hákarl has composed a thematic improvisation based around a corrupted interpretation of Greek ode-form – Strophe, Antistrophe, Cadenza and Epode.

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

ARC + Alison Blunt / Annie Kerr

Sylvia Hallett: violin
Gus Garside: double bass
Danny Kingshill: cello

ARC have been exploring the strings family for over a quarter of a century now, drawing on classical influences, noise, electronics and vocal interjections to create their own soundworld.

“Arc is an exploration of possibilities for string trio…. Beyond the obvious familial drama of violins in conference, Arc are effectively making space for a personalised chamber music where creative immediacy is in dialogue with historical echoes, a stimulating space where spontaneity and evocation coincide.” Julian Cowley, The Wire

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Alison Blunt: violin
Annie Kerr: violin

Alison Blunt is one of the UK’s leading improvising violinists – when she isn’t performing at an international festival, she’ll be working on a film or dance commission, recording a children’s album and generally eluding pigeonholes. Annie Kerr is a violinist, poet and Safehouse regular. It will be great to hear what they come up with as a duo.

Alison Blunt’s playing is unique. Eerie gut-ripping rattles and chokes from hell are interrupted by ringing notes of heavenly hope. I have never heard anything like it” – Jeffery Taylor.

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. God help us if they’re all string players.

Louis Moholo-Moholo and Alexander Hawkins

This duo of Louis Moholo-Moholo and Alexander Hawkins will take place at Brighton Unitarian Church on Saturday 2nd November. Tickets are available online here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/242638

Louis Moholo-Moholo: drums

Louis Moholo-Moholo was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940. After early success with his band The Chordettes, he went on to become the drummer for the now-legendary Blue Notes. This band arrived in England in 1965, and was to have a profound influence on the jazz and improvised music scenes not only in that country, but also in Europe more generally.

In the mid-1960s, Moholo-Moholo joined Chris McGregor’s newly formed Brotherhood of Breath, a big band which stunned audiences around Europe with their own highly individual sound. Moholo-Moholo also led one of the most exciting groups of the time – Spirits Rejoice, with Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler and Keith Tippett among its great players.

During the eighties Louis toured America with Peter Brötzmann’s trio, and continued to work throughout Europe leading his own groups and developing many musical partnerships, including a duo with pianist Cecil Taylor in Berlin.

He returned to live in South Africa in September 2005, but still occasionally makes the trip to Europe to play… all the more reason to catch him on this night!

Alexander Hawkins: piano

Alexander Hawkins plays with vast array of jazz pioneers – names such as Evan Parker, Joe McPhee, Marshall Allen and Mulatu Astatke.

As a band leader and co-leader his main outfits are his Ensemble, The Convergence Quartet, and Decoy; in the latter he plays Hammond Organ in such as way as to “redefine the words ‘shock and awe’”, according to Jazzwise.

“Hawkins seems to get better every time I see him live; every solo he took tonight was a journey, or, if you prefer, a well-told short story. They would begin as jazz explorations, or even boogie-woogie-flavoured romps, before whipping themselves up to a frenzy of clanging clusters, rolling glissandi, and fast-paced, dissonant runs, like a dancer tripping over their feet as the speed of their performance spins out of control. “ David Grundy, Streams of Expression

Here are Moholo-Moholo and Hawkins playing at The Sage in Gateshead in April this year:

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West Hill Blast Quartet

Ron Caines: tenor, alto and soprano sax
Gus Garside: double bass
Andy Pyne: drums
Dan Spicer: bamboo saxophone, shenai, trumpet

West Hill Blast Quartet formed a couple of years back, united by a love fiery free jazz.

Ron Caines was a founder member of Prog-psych group East of Eden and performs now with Broken Star. Gus Garside plays with string trio Arc and duo Static Memories, and is instrumental in running Safehouse. Andy Pyne plays in The Black Neck Band Of The Common Loon, Medicine & Duty and Kellar, and this year partook in a duo with Thurston Moore. Dan Spicer is a member of the improvising sextet Bolide and duo Mandarin Splashback, and performs solo spoken word/poetry.

Take a listen…

Baby + Wild Orchids

Will Miles: flute, guitar
Adam Bushell: vibraphone, percussion
Keisuke Matsui: guitar and amplified objects
Roshi Nasehi: vocals

Interleaving composition and improvisation, and generally confounding expectation, Baby have developed a unique sound and will play this show as a fourpiece. Check out www.babbby.com to listen to their oeuvre.

Rather good” – Ed Pinsent, Resonance FM

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Wild Orchids: photography by Tim Dowling
Kevin Moore: electronics
Z*qhygoem: guitar, electronics
Al Strachan: cornet, electronics
Gregg McKella: electronics

Tim Dowling is fascinated by the wild orchids that can be found on the South Downs, and has been photographing them for a number of years. The flowers themselves are often tiny, but blown up on screen they reveal themselves to be truly exotic and distinctly alien-like lifeforms. Thus Tim thought them to be deserving of a soundtrack of their own, and has brought in improvisors from Safehouse and beyond to get serenading.

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Orphy Robinson + Alison Blunt / Gianni Mimmo

Please note the updated stage times:

Doors: 8pm
Alison Blunt / Gianni Mimmo: 8.30pm
Orphy Robinson: 9.15pm
Wildcard Quartet: 10.15pm

Orphy Robinson: Vibraphone + electronics

Orphy Robinson has explored the outer reaches of jazz with characters such as Robert Wyatt, Lol Coxhill, Tony Bevan, Springheel Jack, Harry Beckett and Pat Thomas. He has released records on Blue Note and in recent years has branched out into making film soundtracks.

On this occasion he’ll be playing vibraphone and feeding it through electronics.

You can watch him here playing with Don Cherry, and this is him performing solo at a Jazz Britannia event at the Barbican:



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Alison Blunt: violin
Gianni Mimmo: soprano sax


A welcome return for top improvising violinist Alison Blunt, who on this occasion will be duetting with Italian soprano player Gianni Mimmo.

Mimmo has built an international reputation for his unique treatment of musical timbre and his exploration of advanced techniques. His influences include jazz names like Steve Lacy and Roscoe Mitchell, contemporary composers like John Cage and Robert Ashley, and artists such as Jackson Pollock and Toti Scialoja. His current projects include collaborations with John Russell, Daniel Levin, Hannah Marshall and Peter Brötzmann.

Here he is playing at The Vortex in London:


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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.

Crush!!! + Noteherder and McCloud

Sonic Pleasure: masonry, bricks and flute
Mark Browne: castrato saxophone, broken glass, percussion, whistles and bones
Ian Smith: trumpet and flugelhorn


CRUSH!!! utilise a vast array of found and home-made sound making devices combined with more traditional instruments. Sonic Pleasure is famed for her unique crafting of sound from bricks and masonry, reducing much of her instrumentation to dust by the end of a concert. Mark Browne plays castrato saxophone, broken glass, percussion, whistles and bones. Ian Smith will play trumpet in an extraordinary manner.

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Noteherder and McCloud

Geoff Reader: synthesizers, tapes
Chris Parfitt: soprano saxophone

The mysterious besuited duo strike again…

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The Wildcard Quartet
At the end of every Safehouse open session four members are picked at random to form a one-off quartet to play at the show at the end of the month. This is them.