3rd May 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 21st May 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

7th June 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 18th June 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday June 29th 2023
8.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist. He has lived and worked in Oxford, New York, and Bristol, and is now based in Cambridge. His most long-standing collaborations are with Angharad Davies and Alex Ward. He runs the record label Spoonhunt, which releases both CDs and digital albums.

Andrew Lisle is a London based drummer/composer. He takes a multi-directional rhythmic approach to improvising with a focus on the abstraction of pulse and meter. Some of his projects and collaborators include: Kit Downes, John Edwards (Multi-directional); Alex Ward, Charlotte Keeffe, Otto Willberg (Alex Ward ITEM 4); Colin Webster, Dirk Serries (Kodian trio); Rodrigo Amado, John Dikeman, Ab Baars. You can find a selection of his discography at andrewlisle.bandcamp.com

Nathan Moore is an improvising guitarist/electronic and sound composer. He has played and recorded with a variety of people including Eddie Prévost, Sue Lynch, John Edwards, Henry Kaiser, Rachel Musson, etc.  Recent CDs include ‘Crushed Air’ with Ed Lucas, Rachel Musson and Steve Noble, and ‘Do Disturb’ with Eddie Prevost, John Edwards, Alan Wilkinson, and Nat Catchpole.  Electronic music: ‘Lunar Sync’ (Orbital577)

Ed and petals have worked together as an improvised duo for a few years now. They started as a duo in Regents Park after a mopomoso workshop was cancelled. They have an album on Matt Atkins MRM label: https://mrmrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tesserae
And an extensive catalogue of recordings here: https://peterokalule.bandcamp.com/
They are joined by Jordan Muscatello on bass for the first live performance as a trio.
Jordan Muscatello is a London-based bass player operating mainly within improvised and experimental music. He regularly performs with Apocalypse Jazz Unit, The London Experimental Ensemble and many other London improvisors.

Ed Shipsey is a improvising musician based in Tottenham, playing a variety of different things with a variety of different people.

petals is a composer, multi instrumentalist and poet, they live on the hidden river effra in brixton.

+ Wildcard Quartet

Simon McLennan: guitar
Alan Jackson: electronics
Clive Craske: percussion
Radas: guitar / electronics

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

5th July 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 16th July 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday July 20th 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Propan is the Norwegian improv duo of Ina Sagstuen and Natali Abrahamsen Garner. Since its beginning in 2011, Propan has developed a focused and seamless musical interaction in which they research the different roles and possibilities of the voice.

Open improvisations and compositions create the backbone and starting point for Propan’s sound. The voices are deconstructed and rebuilt from detailed sound cells, reemerging as textures, catchy melodies and grooves, both acoustic, and through amplification and effects. Drones, textures, carpets of sound and vocals melt together and become a platform open for the listeners’ interpretations.

On their albums they have been compared to Bjørk at her most experimental, and it’s been said that that they sound like ‘Laurie Andersson meets Sigur Rós’ and to ‘always appear totally original – never standing still’.

“I absolutely love this cassette by vocalists Ina Sagstuen and Natali Abrahamsen Garner on Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council. Loom sits just right on my synapses, simple vocal patterns punching far above their weight. Don’t mistake its 16 meditations as being about atmosphere or *mbient music. This holds space as meditations should, rather than filling it in (or smoothing it out for optimum productivity).” – Jennifer Lucy Allan, The Quietus

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Grass Balloon

+ Wildcard Trio

Adrian Southby: clarinet
Monty Oxymoron: percussion / piano
Luke Woolfenden: bass / electronics

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

2nd August 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 20th August 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

6th September 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Friday 8th September 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Time Trout

Viv Corringham: voice
Marcus Cummins: soprano and alto saxophones, ocarina, bells, shruti box
Dave Mandl: bass guitar
Stephen Moses: drums, percussion

Based in New York City, Time Trout features vocalist Viv Corringham with a band of well-seasoned NYC improvisors. The Wire magazine called their debut album a “masterpiece of spontaneous strangeness… focused on subjects such as okonomiyaki pancakes, spinning eggs and frosted bats.”

Their album was released on Cafe Oto’s label OTOroku.  Read more and listen here

Shark Calmer

A duo of Peter Marsh (Woven Entity, etc) and Tom Clarke, playing electronics, drums and lap steel guitar.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 17th September 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

4th October 2023
7pm
£3 / £2 members

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

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 15th October 2023
1pm-3.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

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.

www.roger-turner.com

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Plus…

Yellow Door

Wildcard Quartet

DJ Fiery Biscuits