We are looking into the possibility of doing this session online.  Meanwhile – stay safe and well!

Tickets: £10 adv / £12 on the door / £8 for Safehouse members https://www.wegottickets.com/event/522014

22 September, 2021
8pm doors
£10 advance £12 on door
@ The Rose Hill

Re–Ghoster

Nate Wooley (USA): trumpet
Valerio Tricoli (IT):  Revox tape recorder & electronics
Nicolas Field (UK/CH):  drums & electronics
Thomas Florin (CH):  piano

Re–Ghoster are a trio of pianist Thomas Florin, drummer Nicolas Field and Revox tape maestro Valerio Tricoli. The acoustic instruments are fed to tape, magnetised, digested, re-eaten, reworked and regurgitated again by the machine.
For the release tour of their amazing new record ‘Or not all’, they have invited the renowned New York experimental trumpeter Nate Wooley to join them.

Mordecoli

Mordecoli is a new duo of Ecka Mordecai on cello (Takuroku Records) and Valerio Tricoli on Revox and electronics. They had an excellent residency recording at Cafe Oto last year, and we’re very excited to hearing them play together.

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Dj Fiery Biscuits

6th October 2021
8pm
£3 / £2 members

Our first open session since March 2020!  This will be at the Rose Hill.

Sunday 21st April 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Friday April 26th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

John Butcher is well known as a saxophonist who attempts to engage with the uniqueness of time and place. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and unusual acoustics. Since the early 80s he has collaborated with hundreds of musicians – including Derek Bailey, Rhodri Davies, Andy Moor (EX), Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Eddie Prevost, John Stevens’ SME, Mark Sanders and Okkyung Lee.

Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, David Toop, Stewart Lee, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian.

Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts. As a violinist, he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach. Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson, Mark Wastell, using a modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing and recording with guitarist Martin Vishnick, mandolinist Richard Scott and drummer Emil Karlsen.

Simian Carbuncle

Simian Carbuncle are a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques. Matt Clark (MC3, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) and Ade Southby (Dragons of Disgust, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) are two likeminded and exploratory improvisors regularly performing and partaking of the heady improvised music scenes of Brighton and London.

Wildcard Quartet

DJ Fiery Biscuits

1st May 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Thursday May 2nd 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Trio Sowari is an English electronics specialist, a Swiss/French saxophonist and a German percussionist, all of them play an important role in the European contemporary experimental music scene.

They sound like this :

They are members of ensembles like Mimeo, Hubbub, Polwechsel and countless others, they have released their music on labels such as Another Timbre, Erstwhile, Matchless, Potlatch, Confront, Hat Hut, For4Ears, Emanem, Leo, and many others.

Moving within evolving electro-acoustic fields Trio Sowari investigate their asymmetric structures and multilayered ambiguities.

They say their music is not a dystopian or retro sound, their music aims to face the present in a boldly and spirited way!

Here is what the press have to say about it:

“This is disciplined, focused music, the sound of people really thinking and playing, and close attention is consistently rewarded.”
Clive Bell, The Wire

“Musicianship and creativity of the highest order.”
Dan Warburton , ParisTransatlantic

“Leçon du son sans laisse.”
Antoine Le Roy, Journal de Jura

“The result of these alluring and positively sensual investigations is a dense and coherent sound composed of a myriad of building blocks, which allows both for macro- and micro-listening.”
Tobias Fischer, tokafi

Since forming in 2004 the group has played countless venues and festivals all across Europe.

Hearn Fell Duo

Features Safehouse co-founder Geoff Hearn on tenor sax and Milo Fell on drums.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 19th May 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday June 13th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Faradena Afifi: viola, violin and voice
Steve Beresford: piano, electronics and toys
Paul Khimasia Morgan: guitar body and electronics

Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics, and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn, and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack).

He has written songs, written for large and small ensembles, and scored short films, feature films, TV shows, and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics and Collusion magazines, writes about music in various contexts.

Faradena Afifi is the curator of ‘The Noisy Women Present’ and the ‘Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra’. She plays bowed string instruments, piano and percussion and uses voice and movement. She is also a community musician, street and folk musician.

Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improvisor who uses an amplified acoustic guitar body. He has performed in regular and ad-hoc groupings with Steve Beresford and Blanca Regina, Cristián Alvear, Richard Sanderson, Jason Kahn, Simon Whetham, Seth Cooke, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Ryu Hankil, Charlotte Keefe and Mark Wastell’s THE SEEN.

The trio have a new CD coming out on Discus Records which will be available at the gig.

Gus Garside and Clive Craske

Clive Craske and Gus Garside worked as a duo in several performances of John Cage’s Ryoanji some years ago. They are back with two of their own creations. Gus’ piece, Reimagining, is an electro acoustic improvisation drawing references from Ligeti, Debussy and hip hop. Clive’s own graphic score, entitled Merge Matrices, will be structured uniquely for this performance.

Gus Garside is double bass player concentrating these days on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music Gus plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on four highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis and a duo album with the French saxophone player Hervé Perez released on the New York 577 label in 2021 He has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is making a welcome return to working with dance building a project with Mim King. He was a founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective.

Clive Craske is both a radio and festival DJ and an improvising percussionist. His Sound Laboratory show on RadioReverb covers a wide variety of more off-kilter and experimental genres of music, and is currently sponsored by The Spirit of Gravity. He is in an improv trio, ACZ, with Andrew Greaves of SoG (synthesisers) and Z*qhygoem (hammered dulcimer, guitar, voice, percussion and electronics); ACZ performances are guided by themed audience contributions written immediately prior to each performance. Clive is a long-time member of and current Chairperson of Safehouse Brighton.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 16th June 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Tuesday July 9th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Marija Kovačević: Music for Broken Violins

Marija Kovačević is based in New York and has traveled internationally to Paris to Sun Tunnels in Utah to Hvar in Croatia. She has been featured on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and Freeness programme as well as WFMU’s Strength through Failure. In addition to three volumes of Music for Broken Violins, broken violins also appear on a duo cassette with Thierry Müller and Push Broken Duet with RoRo Perrot released on the Brighton-based label Chocolate Monk.

CRUSH!!!

CRUSH!!! are Sonic Pleasure (bricks, masonry, metal tools, flute), Mark Browne (saxophones, collected objects, percussion, game calls) and Paul Twine (guitar). The group utilises 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. Paul Twine will play guitar in an extraordinary manner.

Matt Clark, Toma Sapir and Annie Kerr

A new project started by Matt Clark that will feature a revolving cast of players and a special method of improvising – more details to follow!

+ The Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 21st July 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Sunday 18th August 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday September 11, 2024
7pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Eddie Prévost: drums
Silvan Schmid: trumpet
Tom Wheatley: bass

Eddie Prévost

Eddie Prévost began his life in music as a jazz drummer. A recurring interest in this form has been maintained, although always with an experimental ethos. Along the way he has maintained his fifty-year plus experimental credentials with AMM and numerous other improvisation projects, including his now twenty-year long weekly workshop. But drumming has generally been backgrounded to his experimental percussion work.

“Prévost’s free drumming flows superbly making use of his formidable technique. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or Max Roach.” – Melody Maker

“Relentlessly innovative yet full of swing and fire.” – Morning Star

Tom Wheatley

Tom Wheatley is an artist and musician based in London. His work is patterns, rhythms and cycles, at an interface of physical and digital zones. Recently, his music has been documented on video and record.

His main collaborations are ТЕПЛОТА with Grundik Kasyansky, Cast-On with Ilana Blumberg, and various lineups & outputs with Daniel Blumberg, often including Billy Steiger, Ute Kanngiesser and Jim White.

Silvan Schmid

Silvan Schmid is a trumpet player based between Zürich and Maastricht. He plays live and does recordings with people and projects such as Solo, Gamut Kollektiv,Miao Silvan Makossiri, Alex Riva, Mraolia, Félicie Bazelaire, ТЕПЛОТА x RIVASCHMID, Lotus Eddé Khouri, TZUSSS, Fabian Saul.

He is a member of the Gamut Kollektiv, whose purpose is to explore, to seek and to set new things in motion. The collective serves as a fruitful breeding ground for ideas, experiments and new processes. In addition to the annual Gamut Festival, they run the label Edition Gamut and organize different concert series in Zurich.

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Support TBA

Wildcard Quartet

DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 15th September 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Sunday 20th October 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Friday 24th October 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

A special Safehouse double bill featuring Japanese pianist Yoko Miura.

Yoko Miura is a pianist currently living in Fukuoka, Japan. Born in Tokyo, she started studying classical piano from the age of 5 and later became interested in jazz and improvised music. She says of her musical approach: “I am trying to make a kind of different universes interweaving and exchanging with different process, values and ways, with people, not only the musicians but also painters and dancers”. She has performed and recorded with many players including Gianni Mimmo John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Mia Zabelka, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and many more.

Concentrating these days on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music, double bassist Gus Garside plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on three highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis and a duo album with the French saxophone player Hervé Perez released on the New York 577 label in 2021. He has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is making a welcome return to working with dance building a project with Mim King. He was a founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective.

James Parsons is a drummer with an affinity for free, improvised playing, and has performed in a wide range of groups over the years including Bolide, Ron Caines Trio, Bare Springs, God’s Teeth and the Interstellar Tropics, The Burbling Mind and Grass Balloon.

Viv Corringham is a US-based British vocalist and sound artist, described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3). She has worked with many musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Charles Hayward, Mike Cooper, Elliott Sharp, and Maggie Nicols. She has done concerts and sound work in twenty-six countries in venues such as Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York, and Institute of Contemporary Art London. “From cool Brion Gysin–esque wordplay to looped and multilayered operatic wails” (The Wire).

Lawrence Casserley has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways. He has worked with many of the leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. Casserley’s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on many CDs, and he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan.

+ The Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits