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John Butcher, Phil Durrant & Mark Wastell // Simian Carbuncle

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Friday April 26th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

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John Butcher is well known as a saxophonist who attempts to engage with the uniqueness of time and place. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and unusual acoustics. Since the early 80s he has collaborated with hundreds of musicians – including Derek Bailey, Rhodri Davies, Andy Moor (EX), Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Eddie Prevost, John Stevens’ SME, Mark Sanders and Okkyung Lee.

Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, David Toop, Stewart Lee, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian.

Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts. As a violinist, he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach. Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson, Mark Wastell, using a modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing and recording with guitarist Martin Vishnick, mandolinist Richard Scott and drummer Emil Karlsen.

Simian Carbuncle

Simian Carbuncle are a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques. Matt Clark (MC3, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) and Ade Southby (Dragons of Disgust, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) are two likeminded and exploratory improvisors regularly performing and partaking of the heady improvised music scenes of Brighton and London.

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Trio Sowari // Hearn Fell Duo

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Thursday May 2nd 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

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Trio Sowari is an English electronics specialist, a Swiss/French saxophonist and a German percussionist, all of them play an important role in the European contemporary experimental music scene.

They sound like this :

They are members of ensembles like Mimeo, Hubbub, Polwechsel and countless others, they have released their music on labels such as Another Timbre, Erstwhile, Matchless, Potlatch, Confront, Hat Hut, For4Ears, Emanem, Leo, and many others.

Moving within evolving electro-acoustic fields Trio Sowari investigate their asymmetric structures and multilayered ambiguities.

They say their music is not a dystopian or retro sound, their music aims to face the present in a boldly and spirited way!

Here is what the press have to say about it:

“This is disciplined, focused music, the sound of people really thinking and playing, and close attention is consistently rewarded.”
Clive Bell, The Wire

“Musicianship and creativity of the highest order.”
Dan Warburton , ParisTransatlantic

“Leçon du son sans laisse.”
Antoine Le Roy, Journal de Jura

“The result of these alluring and positively sensual investigations is a dense and coherent sound composed of a myriad of building blocks, which allows both for macro- and micro-listening.”
Tobias Fischer, tokafi

Since forming in 2004 the group has played countless venues and festivals all across Europe.

Hearn Fell Duo

Features Safehouse co-founder Geoff Hearn on tenor sax and Milo Fell on drums.

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Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi + Paul Khimasia Morgan // Matt Clark, Toma Sapir and Annie Kerr

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Thursday June 13th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

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Faradena Afifi: viola, violin and voice
Steve Beresford: piano, electronics and toys
Paul Khimasia Morgan: guitar body and electronics

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.

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.

The trio have a new CD coming out on Discus Records which will be available at the gig.

Matt Clark, Toma Sapir and Annie Kerr

A new project by Brighton-based improvising guitarist Matt Clark. For each performance, a fluid trio of five or six musicians is formed, a constantly changing line-up decided by random selection events. Each performance centres around spontaneously created motifs and performers are selected randomly in real time.
This performance will feature a core trio of pianist Annie Kerr and drummer/percussionist Toma Sapir, also regulars on the Brighton improvised music scene.
Matt Clark is an improvising guitarist and composer from Brighton, drawing on free jazz, avant-garde, experimental and electronic music. He is currently working with MC3, a London-based improvising trio with Charlotte Keeffe and James Edmunds – the trio engages in musical conversations and sonic exploration; interweaving dialogues between three distinctive voices: guitar, trumpet and drums; and with Simian Carbuncle, a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques, with regular collaborator Ade Southby.
Annie Kerr draws on a wide range of influences to create improvised soundworlds using violin, piano and text in performance, session work and studio collaborations with dancers, artists, actors and filmmakers. She plays in regular and ad hoc combos with musicians in Brighton and London.

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Marija Kovačević // CRUSH!!!

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Tuesday July 9th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

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Marija Kovačević: Music for Broken Violins

Marija Kovačević is based in New York and has traveled internationally to Paris to Sun Tunnels in Utah to Hvar in Croatia. She has been featured on BBC Radio 3 Late Junction and Freeness programme as well as WFMU’s Strength through Failure. In addition to three volumes of Music for Broken Violins, broken violins also appear on a duo cassette with Thierry Müller and Push Broken Duet with RoRo Perrot released on the Brighton-based label Chocolate Monk.

CRUSH!!!

CRUSH!!! are Sonic Pleasure (bricks, masonry, metal tools, flute), Mark Browne (saxophones, collected objects, percussion, game calls) and Paul Twine (guitar). The group utilises a vast array of found and home-made sound making devices combined with more traditional instruments. Sonic Pleasure is famed for her unique crafting of sound from bricks and masonry, reducing much of her instrumentation to dust by the end of a concert. Mark Browne plays castrato saxophone, broken glass, percussion, whistles and bones. Paul Twine will play guitar in an extraordinary manner.

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Safehouse Brighton at the Coach House

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Wednesday 7th August 2024
7pm-10.30pm
At The Coach House
22 Walpole Road
Brighton, BN2 0EA
£3 / £2

Safehouse open session temporarily relocates to the lovely Coach House in Kemptown!  We’re back at the Rose Hill in September, so come and enjoy this one-off summer holiday edition!