6th April 2022
7.30pm
£3 / £2 members
Note we are starting earlier now – 7.30pm doors for an 8pm start of music!
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Stian Larsen, Colin Webster and Andrew Lisle // Mutter
Wednesday April 20th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
Stian Larsen – guitar
Colin Webster – alto saxophone
Andrew Lisle – drums
Colin Webster – alto saxophone
Andrew Lisle – drums
Guitarist Stian Larsen has for a number of years been recognised as an energetic and highly inventive improviser in the avant-garde music scene in Norway. Both as a solo artist and member of the bands kÖök, KTHXBYE and Pet Zoo, his collaboration with the British reed player Colin Webster and percussionist Andrew Lisle is an exciting exploration of the electric guitar and interplay across musical borders. Their latest studio album came together after a series of concerts on stage in England and Norway and really captures the essence of the trio.
Webster and Lisle’s energetic free jazz meets Larsen’s noise and rock guitar in an exciting interaction that is dynamic, playful and hard-hitting.
Critical acclaim for “Zeal & Preseverance” (2019):
“Zeal and Perseverance captures faithfully the essence of the trio: hard-hitting and dynamic play of pushing and crisscrossing musical borders that visits and reshapes our conceptions of free jazz, rock and noise territories.”
Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
“The trio’s sparring has a punkish, whippet-thin energy, partly due to the lack of double bass, with the aluminium sting of Larsen’s guitar increasing the avant-rock spice in the mix.”
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Mutter
Adrian Southby – baritone electric guitar
Marc Muir – voice
Gus Garside – double bass
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The Wildcard Quartet
Penny Howe – violin
Phil Smith – trumpet
Z*qhygoem – dulcimer
Matt Clark – guitar
Roger Turner & Kazuhisa Uchihashi
Sunday May 1st 2022
7pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
A very welcome return of the drums and daxophone duo!
A pioneering Japanese guitarist and daxophone player, Kazuhisa Uchihashi is involved in a wide variety of musics, but still retains a commitment to free improvisation. Born in 1959 in Osaka, Uchihashi began to play the guitar at age 12, playing in various rock bands, though he later studied jazz music. In 1988 he joined the band the First Edition, and in 1990 formed the band Altered States. He was also a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997.
Roger Turner has been working as an improvising percussionist since the early 1970s, playing both solo and in collaboration with musicians from Annette Peacock to Phil Minton, Cecil Taylor to Masahiko Satoh, Charles Gayle to Lol Coxhill, Derek Bailey to Otomo Yoshihide, Alan Silva to Keith Rowe, Josef Nadj to Min Tanaka, Toshinori Kondo to Axel Dorner, and more besides.
He has toured and played concerts worldwide from Sydney to the Arctic, Tokyo to Belfast, New York to Beirut.
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The Wildcard Quartet
Marc Muir: voice
Adrian Southby: guitar / wind
Month Oxymoron: percussion
Simon McLennan: guitar
Safehouse Open Session
4th May 2022
7.30pm
£3 / £2 members
Note we are starting earlier now – 7.30pm doors for an 8pm start of music!
Safehouse Open Session
1st June 2022
7.30pm
£3 / £2 members
Note we are starting earlier now – 7.30pm doors for an 8pm start of music!
Rachel Musson, Olie Brice and Mark Sanders Trio
Sunday June 19th 2022
5pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
Three exceptional improvising musicians in the form of the trio of Olie Brice (double bass), Rachel Musson (saxophone) and Mark Sanders (drums).
Rachel Musson
Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward, Alex Hawkins amongst others.
“A free-improviser sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing” – John Fordham, The Guardian
Mark Sanders
Mark has worked with a host of renowned musicians including Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd, in duo and quartets with Wadada Leo Smith and trios with Charles Gayle with Sirone and William Parker.
In situations using composition Mark works in a number of projects including Christian Marclay’s Everyday for film and live music and John Butcher’s Tarab Cuts – both projects have performed major festivals throughout Europe and Brazil. He has performed works by guitarist John Coxon in Glasgow and Sydney playing with the Scottish and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. With New York’s ICE Ensemble he has performed John Zorn’s The Tempest in London and at Huddersfield New Music Festival.
“ubiquitous, diverse and constantly creative, drummer Mark Sanders always outdoes himself, whether playing with restraint or erupting like a dynamo.” Bruce L Gallenter, Downtown Music Gallery. NY
Olie Brice
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
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Paul Keene and Al Strachan
Paul Keene
Paul Keene is a musician and researcher working as a pianist, composer, improvisor and multi-media artist. He has worked in various parts of the world in settings including orchestras and choirs, live electronic and acoustic groups, chamber ensembles and solo projects. He has performed with The Platters, Bobby Vinton and Louie Belson.
His work includes collaborations with dancers including Emma Dunn, multimedia artists such as Christopher Janey, film-makers such as Nick Gibbon and spoken-word artists including Lemn Sissay. He has performed on BBC Radio 3 on the Andy Kershaw Show with Rise Kagona of the Bhundu Boys as a member of Culture Clash. He has also appeared with DJ Sniff from STEIM, with the Chemical Poets, free improv group Hakemira and improvised electronica duo Kresch.
Al Strachan
Al Strachan makes music with brass instruments, electronics, percussion and water. He has played and recorded with a wide range of artists – check out his discography to see them all.
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The Wildcard Quartet
Jay Bee: guitar
Penny Howe: violin / accordion
Matt Finucane: guitar
Safehouse Open Session
6th July 2022
7.30pm
£3 / £2 members
Note we are starting earlier now – 7.30pm doors for an 8pm start of music!
Franziska Baumann / John Edwards / Mark Sanders /// Loner Club
Wednesday July 13th 2022
7pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
Please note this show runs at the slightly earlier time of 7pm-10pm
Franziska Baumann, voice, sensor live electronic & spatialised sound.
A pioneer in extended vocal technique and live electronic processing with sensor interfaces, swiss singer Franziska Baumann creates works that disclose at the intersection of voice, gesture and spatialised sound (Ambisonic) to discover and weave together new modes of perception, vocal creation and its sonic expression.
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and many others.
Up there with the very best improv drummers in the UK, Mark Sanders has worked with a host of renowned musicians including Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd, in duo and quartets with Wadada Leo Smith and trios with Charles Gayle with Sirone and William Parker.
Loner Club
Loner Club features acoustic percussion and voice from local sound artists Ingrid Plum and Tom Bench.
Wildcard Quartet
Line-up to be announced…
Safehouse Open Session
3rd August 2022
7.30pm
£3 / £2 members
Note we are starting earlier now – 7.30pm doors for an 8pm start of music!
Erwan Keravec – Urban Pipes
Wednesday August 10th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
Scottish bagpipes like you’ve never heard them before.
Erwan Keravec (FR) is a bagpiper, composer and improviser. He has his roots in the Breton tradition of bagpiping, but in seeking out the more unusual sounds and ways of playing and listening to his instrument, far from its original cultural setting, he is exploring improvised music, free and ‘noise’ jazz, and establishing a repertoire of contemporary music.
Erwan describes his piece Urban Pipes as “a utopia aiming to show that the bagpipe is a universal instrument. To imagine music for solo bagpipe that does not evoke its cultural origin, music that is only music, with no other function than to be listened to. This project also entails a modification of traditional playing modes, as well as work on how to use the bagpipe sound and harmonic strangeness outside of strictly melodic practice. All this seems paradoxical for a traditional musician like myself. Yet it is the way I have chosen for Urban Pipes, in order to see what kind of music I can envisage for my instrument.”
“Erwan plays music specially devised for his instrument – music of austere violence, at the same time grandiose, fundamentally modern and often radical, yet never cut off from its roots.” (Jazz Magazine)
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Joshua Le Gallienne: solo acoustic guitar
Alongside their work as a sound artist Joshua maintains a dedicated practice as an acoustic guitarist and has performed extensively since 2002. They operate predominantly in the realm of free improvisation, interested in a spatial and phenomenological exploration of acoustic sound through the steel-string acoustic guitar. They employ unorthodox techniques and alternate tunings to vastly expand the sonic possibilities of the instrument.
Joshua Legallienne from Agata Urbaniak on Vimeo.
Adam Bushell & Paul Keene
Paul Keene is a musician and researcher working as a pianist, composer, improvisor and multi-media artist. He has worked in various parts of the world in settings including orchestras and choirs, live electronic and acoustic groups, chamber ensembles and solo projects. He has performed with The Platters, Bobby Vinton and Louie Belson.
Adam Bushell is a versatile and eclectic percussionist who started playing music in his parents’ village band aged 7. He regularly performs traditional folk music, contemporary classical music and experimental improvisation. Groups he has played with include Duck Soup, Urban Myth, New Interpretations Orchestra, Vole to name just a few.
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The Wildcard Quartet
Andrew Greaves: keyboard
Paul Dalloway: guitar
Matt Clark: guitar
Z*qhygoem: dulcimer, percussion
Safehouse Lewes
Sunday 21st August 2022
2pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Safehouse Open Session
7th September 2022
7.30pm
£3 / £2 members
Note we are starting earlier now – 7.30pm doors for an 8pm start of music!
Safehouse Lewes
Sunday 18th September 2022
2pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3
Ed Jones & Emil Karlsen /// Eddie Prévost, Silvan Schmid, Tapiwa Svosve & Richard Scott
A special double headliner gig!
Wednesday September 28th 2022
7.30pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
Ed Jones & Emil Karlsen
Saxophonist Ed Jones has played with jazz legends Horace Silver, George Benson, Dr Lonnie Smith, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Orphy Robinson and Byron Wallen, and as a session musician he has worked with the likes of Us3 , Terry Callier, Nostalgia 77, D’Angelo, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan and Tina Turner!
Emil Karlsen is a Norwegian improvising drummer currently based in the UK. Described as a “significant addition to the UK free jazz scene” and an “exceptional improv drummer”, he’s establishing himself on the improvised music circuit working the span from free improvisation to free jazz. Occupied with exploring the timbral and sonic possibilities of the drum kit, he performs with Philipp Wachsmann, Matthew Bourne, Phil Durrant, and the London Improvisers Orchestra to mention some.
The duo put out this excellent album last year called ‘From where light falls’, on FMR records:
“One of the best duos I’ve listened to” ★★★★ 1/2 – Fotis Nikolakopoulos (Freejazzblog)
★★★★ – Selwyn Harris (Jazzwise)
Eddie Prévost, Silvan Schmid, Tapiwa Svosve & Richard Scott
Eddie Prévost – percussion
Silvan Schmid – trumpet
Richard Scott – viola
Tapiwa Svosve – alto saxophone
Silvan Schmid – trumpet
Richard Scott – viola
Tapiwa Svosve – alto saxophone
A half-English, half-Swiss quartet brought together by various relationships and meetings: the experimental and improvised music scene in Zürich where Silvan and Tapiwa grew up; Richard and Tapiwa’s ergod duo formed after meeting at a residency in Leamington Spa in 2014; Eddie’s long-running Friday night workshop at the Welsh Chapel in Southwark; Silvan and Tapiwa’s experiences in England, playing and listening; various duos and trios formed within the four of them at different opportunities.
Their first quartet tour, through Switzerland, France and the UK in 2018, cemented a desire to explore more of the delicate, unspecific music they found together and September 2022 sees their second tour, celebrating the release of their first album in August, on the wonderful Slovenian label Inexhaustible Editions.
Their tour is kindly supported by Pro Helvetia, Schweizer Kulturstiftung and Kanton Zürich Kultur.
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The Wildcard Quartet
Paul Dallaway – guitar
Alan Jackson – homemade electronics
Marc Muir – voice
Matt Clark – guitar
Safehouse Open Session
8th October 2022
8pm
£3 / £2 members
Note – we are now back to running it with doors at 8pm and music starting at 8.30pm.
Sloth Racket
Tuesday October 11th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill
Sloth Racket
Sam Andreae / alto saxophone
Cath Roberts / baritone saxophone and compositions
Anton Hunter / guitar
Seth Bennett / double bass
Johnny Hunter / drums
‘Watching Sloth Racket perform is a thrilling experience, conveying a palpable sense that the musicians are navigating the scores by the seat of their pants, making real-time group decisions that sculpt the compositions into unique shapes each time they’re played.’
– Daniel Spicer, The Wire, December 2021
Sloth Racket is a band of improvisers from London, Manchester and Dundee. Baritone saxophone player Cath Roberts creates scores that form the skeleton of the music, and the band constructs a collective sound out of those pages in the moment. Since forming in 2015 they have toured regularly, appeared at numerous UK festivals, and are releasing their fifth album on the Luminous label this year.
The results range across musical territories from fiery free jazz, to minimal improv textures, to deep grooves.
‘The Sloth Racket sound is broadly comparable to that of Tim Berne’s Bloodcount, the mid ’90s New York quintet with the same instrumentation, or the earthier, brawnier sound of Chicago as filtered through Peter Brötzmann’s Tentet.’
– Tim Owen, Dalston Sound
‘an agreeably spicy goulash of free improvisation, grumpy riffs and bluesy themes’
– Stewart Smith, The Quietus
‘nobody in their right mind is going to call this row slothful’
– Spencer Grady, Record Collector
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Simian Carbuncle
A new guitar duo featuring Matt Clark and Adrian Southby.
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The Wildcard Quartet
Safehouse Lewes
Sunday 16th October 2022
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3