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John Edwards, Kjetil Møster & Dag Erik Knedal Andersen /// Paul Keene solo piano

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A special double headliner gig!

Wednesday November 23rd 2022
7pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

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John Edwards, Kjetil Møstar & Dan Erik Knedal

A great trio that sees one of the world’s most consistently compelling bass players, John Edwards, pitted alongside two of the most in-demand players in the Norwegian improv scene in the form of saxophonist / clarinetist / composer Kjetil Møster, and Oslo-based drummer Dag Erik Knedal Andersen.

Kjetil Møster‘s approach sits at the interface between electronic based rock, improv and jazz, and together with Maja S.K. Ratkje, Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug, he started the «All Ears» festival in 2002. Perhaps best known for his “hyperactive-take-no-prisoners” approach to drumming, Dag Erik Knedal Andersen has been an ubiquitous musician on the Norwegian improvised music scene over the last couple of years, as well as touring all over Europe with groups such as SAKA and AKODE.

 

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.

He will play a solo improvised piano set for this gig.

 

Plus The Wildcard Quartet

 

Koch, Kocher & Badrutt Trio /// Luís Vicente & Olie Brice

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Friday January 13th 2023
7.30pm doors
£8 / £6 members + unwaged
@ The Bees Mouth

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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

John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg // Dhangsha // Systemet

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Saturday January 28th 2023
2pm – 5pm
£10 / £8 ADV  members + unwaged, £10 OTD
@ The Prince Albert

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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!!!

 

Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi and Paul Khimasia Morgan /// Fourth Page

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Wednesday February 15th 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6  members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

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Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi and Paul Khimasia Morgan

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, and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca Regina, he is part of Unpredictable Series, which produces events and sound and video recordings of experimental music and art.

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.

“...feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns…more physicality than most you hear, which gives the performance some nice faux visual weight.”
– Byron Coley in The Wire

Fourth Page

Charlie Beresford – guitar, voice
Carolyn Hume – keyboards
Paul May – drums

Fourth Page formed in 2010 almost by accident on a sunny Spring afternoon in Surrey. The very first notes the band ever played together that day ended up on their debut album, ‘Along the Weak Rope’, which was released later that year. Two more albums followed for Forwind and the legendary Leo label over the next couple of years (along with a lot of gigs in churches).

The band’s unique and entirely improvised approach to song form has drawn comparisons to everyone from Schubert to David Sylvian, Paul Bley, Talk Talk and John Martyn, but in truth Fourth Page sound like no-one but themselves.

“...improvised songs that are studiously enigmatic and elusive. … the instrumental tracks are equally alluring. “Diablerie” melds scrap metal scrapes with rippling electric piano and Beresford’s edge of feedback guitar hum. “Edgeplay” is a 20 minute vista of rattle ‘n’ thud percussion, scattered plucks and sustained synth wash that goes nowhere beautifully.”
– Daniel Spicer, The Wire

https://www.facebook.com/4thpagemusic/
https://fourthpage.bandcamp.com/

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Wildcard Quartet

Line-up TBA

Kodian Trio // Simian Carbuncle

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Thursday March 16th 2023
8.00pm
£8 / £6  members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/567407

This is a co-promotion with Phonocene

Kodian Trio

Colin Webster – saxophones
Dirk Serries – electric guitar
Andrew Lisle – drums
Kodian Trio debuted at London’s Cafe Oto in 2015, and three albums and multiple live appearances later, the trio are swiftly becoming major contenders on the fertile and outward-looking European scene. The uniquely voiced trio is formed of saxophonist Colin Webster using aggressive techniques and unusual approaches to his horn, electric guitarist Dirk Serries throwing spiky lines in forceful and unorthodox dialog, and in-demand UK drummer Andrew Lisle providing underpinning and punctuation.
“These musicians are far too talented to simply go hell for leather or indulge in macho noise grandstanding. Instead, their noise-making has an intricacy and control while still sounding spontaneous and raw. Webster tends to avoid the obvious low end raunch of the baritone, using its sheer physicality to lend force to high register squalls and breath effects. His introduction of the alto sax halfway through the third side is an unexpected delight, as he embarks on a bright, Eastern European tinged solo over some of Lisles’s most energetic and inventive drumming. The long drones and deconstructed funk of the final side bring further evidence of this trio’s resourcefulness and imagination.”  – The Quietus – UK

Simian Carbuncle

Simian Carbuncle is a new prepared guitar duo of Matt Clark and Ade Southby.

Wildcard Quartet

Radas – guitar
Emma Papper: clarinet
Z*qhygoem – dulcimer + objects
Clive Craske: percussion

DJ Fiery Biscuits

Hi Res Heart // Hearn Fell Brice Trio

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Thursday April 27th 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6  members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/569044

Hi Res Heart

Martin Archer: saxophones
Charlotte Keeffe:  trumpet, flugelhorn
Martin Pyne: drums, percussion, vibraphone

Hi Res Heart is an improvising group where spaciousness and fire co-exist. Even when the music is at its most abstract, the spirit of the blues is never too far away. The horns are direct and melodic in an open ended flow which reacts to the moment, while the unusual percussion set up of drum set, hand percussion and vibraphone provides an ever changing textural and rhythmic counterpoint.

“The chemistry is magical, the musicianship is second to none, and the interchange between all seeps in like fast blood as spectacular.” – Lee Henderson, BIG BEAUTIFUL NOISE

“Beautifully loose limbed lead lines every instrument the trio has at their disposal has purpose; deep drone baritone, Ms. Keeffe’s brass pressed into a squeegee ball with vibes and flute emerging like mantra. A circus of sounds where even ‘the riot’ is riotous fun, the ridiculous made into gravitas, improvisation turned into chamber music. Beauty on the edge of horizon.” – Steve Day, 2022

Check out their album here….

Hearn Brice Fell

Geoff Hearn:  tenor and soprano sax
Olie Brice: double bass
Milo Fell: drums / percussion

A welcome return from the trio led by Safehouse co-founder Geoff Hearn!

The Wildcard Quartet

Line-up TBA