4th January 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members
Monthly Archives: January 2023
Koch, Kocher & Badrutt Trio /// Luís Vicente & Olie Brice
Friday January 13th 2023
7.30pm doors
£8 / £6 members + unwaged
@ The Bees Mouth
NB – note the different venue for this gig!
Koch, Kocher & Badrutt Trio
Hans Koch: bass clarinet
Gaudenz Badrutt: electronics
Jonas Kocher: accordion
Playing since 2014, this trio consists of three major figures of the Swiss improvised music scene. Koch, Kocher & Badrutt play a subtle electro-acoustic improvised music, blending acoustic sources and electronics in a surprising way to create a music full of unpredictable events. Their second release is called Archytas Curve.
“I am stunned by the immediacy of the improvising. They have developed a special way of playing fast and slow simultaneously. It seems to come from a finely tuned interactive understanding, one that makes me think of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio of the early sixties, but with a different arsenal of shapes and textures. Similar reverence for held sounds, extremes of register, brilliant action that ends with a stuck landing. “
John Corbett
Hans Koch (*1948, bass clarinet, saxophone, electronics) is mainly known as a member of the Hardcore Chambermusic Trio Koch-Schütz-Studer, but also as a soloist as well as for his collaborations with Phil Minton, Fred Frith, Paul Lovens etc. As a bass clarinet player he has developed a very personal style.
The electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt (*1972) is mainly known as one half of the electroacoustic duo strøm (together with Christian Müller, electronics and bass clarinet), as well as soloist, member of Koch, Kocher & Badrutt or the Baldrian Quartet. Gaudenz Badrutt’s music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices.
Jonas Kocher‘s work explores the relationships between tone, noise and silence and the process of listening, this as improviser as well as in his compositions. As accordionist he works exclusively in improvised and conceptual contexts. Plays with Jacques Demierre, Axel Dörner etc.
This show has been able to happen thanks to the financial support of the Swiss Cultural Fund UK.
Luís Vicente & Olie Brice
Luís Vicente is a Portugese trumpet player, improviser and composer. He has recorded several times for the Clean Feed label and works with the likes of John Dikeman, Rodrigo Amado and Wilbert De Joode.
“Trumpeter Vicente is a significant emerging talent, a brassy, forceful trumpeter with a quick mind…”
Stuart Broomer, Point Of Departure
Olie Brice is an improvising double bassist from London. He leads two bands – a quintet that plays his original compositions and a freely improvising trio featuring Tobias Delius and Mark Sanders. He has also worked with musicians including Paul Dunmall, Tony Malaby, Steve Swell, Achim Kaufmann, Alex Ward and Ingrid Laubrock.
“Brice makes the entire body of his bass sing. He has the ability to deliver a fractal line that is as purposeful as any by the great jazz bassists, but to do so within an entirely abstract setting” – Brian Morton, Point of Departure
“Versatile and slinking” (Peter Margasak, Downbeat)
Wildcard Quartet
Marc James Muir: voice
Pete Dixon: guitar
Andrew Greaves: keyboards
Paul Dallaway: guitar
Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 15th January 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg // Dhangsha // Systemet
Saturday January 28th 2023
2pm – 5pm
£10 / £8 ADV members + unwaged, £10 OTD
@ The Prince Albert
John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg
John Butcher – saxophones
John Butcher was born in Brighton, and has lived in London since the late 1970s. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics.
Originally a theoretical physicist, he published his Ph.D in 1982 and then left academia for music. He has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians, mostly involved with improvisation – including Derek Bailey, John Stevens, Rhodri Davies, Okkyung Lee, Toshimaru Nakamura, Eddie Prevost and Christian Marclay.
Ståle Liavik Solberg – drums
Ståle Liavik Solberg has established a base for himself as a central part of Oslo’s thriving improvised music scene. Working with ensembles VCDC, Will it float? (with John Russell, Steve Beresford & John Edwards), Silva-Rasmussen-Solberg trio and in duos with Fred Lonberg-Holm and John Russell his open and attentive drumming has received many positive responses from musicians and audiences in both Europe and the USA.
Dhangsha
A one time student of legendary drummer John Stevens, “Dhangsha” aka Aniruddha Das is an electronic musician causing disruption at the interface of bass music and experimental sound.
Whilst adhering to the principles of minimalism, repetition and fragmentation, and through live improvisation, he instigates interactions between rhythm and noise with a resultant concept he describes as ‘Mutant Dancehall’.
He has performed in Colombia and in the UK and Europe, including with political electronic noise duo Yao Bobby and Simon Grab.
Systemet
Using their custom self-made synthesizers and octophonic sound system, Swedish collective Systemet create a unique take on noise and drone music.
DJ Fiery Biscuits (Slack City/Radio Reverb)
The load bearing flouty pelmvessel responsible for The Damping Wells will be grouting with gingernuts betwixt doors and curfew interposed. It’s his BIRTHDAY too so shower him with intoxicating unguents pop kids!!!