4th October 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Miman + Hákarl
Thursday 5th October 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill
Miman
Hans Kjorstad: fiddle
Andreas Røysum: guitar and clarinet
Egil Kalman: bass and synth
With over 75 concerts in 16 countries since their debut in 2016, Scandinavian trio Miman have forged their improvised interplay into an all-consuming expression – crystallized fragments of music styles presented mysteriously and inexplicably as in a dream.
This expression strives for an imminent just tuned ideal and is not afraid of being neither head-nodding groovy nor strict and slow-flowing, as captured on their latest record ‘1000 bitar’.
Miman is an improvising trio consisting of fiddler Hans Kjorstad, guitarist and clarinetist Andreas Røysum and bassist and synthetist Egil Kalman, three of the most distinct and active young voices on the thriving Scandinavian jazz and improv scene. Their sound is shaped by their diverse backgrounds and influences – Norwegian, English and Indian folk music blends seamlessly with sentiments aching to free jazz and contemporary music in an organic fashion that steers clear of the dogmatic.
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+ Hákarl
Hákarl is the solo project of Kev Nickells – musician / writer / programmer / other of Brighton, UK. Thanks to a chance encounter with MC Guitars he’s recently been ploughing into fretless guitar, and exploring his non-more-Yngwie slack-tuned, Vietnamese style scalloped guitar. Recent sets, therefore, are intemperate tunings and modal happenstance. Improvised, just not *that* freely.
+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits
Safehouse Lewes – Open Session
Sunday 15th October 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Roger Turner & Kazuhisa Uchihashi // Yellow Door
Wednesday October 25th 2023
7pm doors
£8 / £6 members
@ The Rose Hill
A very welcome return of the drums and daxophone duo!
Firstly – what’s a daxophone? It consists of “bowed bits of wood in various shapes
which create an amazing range of sounds, including the cry of a wounded
elephant and the final gurgles of a opera contralto as she is swallowed by a loon with digestive disorders.” – Eugene Chadbourne.
A pioneering Japanese guitarist and daxophone player, Kazuhisa Uchihashi’s entry into noise music was as a member of Yoshigaki Yasuhiro’s rip-roaring First Edition band – “responsible for sending many a drunken Japanese businessman staggering into the streets with his hands over his ears”, according to Eugene Chadbourne. He then formed Altered States in 1990 and was a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero. He has since guested on many records, such as with composer Zeena Parkins, and including his long-standing duo with Roger Turner.
Roger Turner has been working as an improvising percussionist since the early 1970s, playing both solo and in collaboration with musicians such as Annette Peacock, Phil Minton, Cecil Taylor, Masahiko Satoh, Charles Gayle, Lol Coxhill, Derek Bailey, Otomo Yoshihide, Toshinori Kondo and Axel Dorner. He has toured and played concerts worldwide from Sydney to the Arctic, Tokyo to Belfast, New York to Beirut.
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