Due to ongoing building works at The Rose Hill please note that there will be no open session in Brighton at the start of September.  Head over to Lewes and Worthing for your improv fix, and we’ll see you there and back at the Rose Hill in October!

Wednesday September 11, 2024
7pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Eddie Prévost: drums
Silvan Schmid: trumpet
Olie Brice: bass

Eddie Prévost

Eddie Prévost began his life in music as a jazz drummer. A recurring interest in this form has been maintained, although always with an experimental ethos. Along the way he has maintained his fifty-year plus experimental credentials with AMM and numerous other improvisation projects, including his now twenty-year long weekly workshop. But drumming has generally been backgrounded to his experimental percussion work.

“Prévost’s free drumming flows superbly making use of his formidable technique. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or Max Roach.” – Melody Maker

“Relentlessly innovative yet full of swing and fire.” – Morning Star

Olie Brice

Olie Brice is a committed free improviser, who has performed, toured and recorded with many of the leading names in the music. Frequent collaborators include Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Rachel Musson, Tobias Delius, Cath Roberts and Luis Vicente, and he has also appeared with the likes of Evan Parker, Tony Malaby, John Butcher, Ingrid Laubrock, Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost and Louis Moholo. He is part of several ongoing improvising ensembles including Somersaults (with Tobias Delius & Mark Sanders) and The Acrylic Rib (with Albert Cirera & Nicolas Field).

Silvan Schmid

Silvan Schmid is a trumpet player based between Zürich and Maastricht. He plays live and does recordings with people and projects such as Solo, Gamut Kollektiv,Miao Silvan Makossiri, Alex Riva, Mraolia, Félicie Bazelaire, ТЕПЛОТА x RIVASCHMID, Lotus Eddé Khouri, TZUSSS, Fabian Saul.

He is a member of the Gamut Kollektiv, whose purpose is to explore, to seek and to set new things in motion. The collective serves as a fruitful breeding ground for ideas, experiments and new processes. In addition to the annual Gamut Festival, they run the label Edition Gamut and organize different concert series in Zurich.

Plus

Mutter

Gus Garside – double bass
Adrian Southby – baritone electric guitar
Marc Muir – voice

Wildcard Quartet

DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 15th September 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday 25th September 2024
Doors open: 7pm for a 7:30 start
Session: 7:30 – 10:30pm
46-56 Portland Rd, Worthing, BN11 1QN
£3 

2nd October 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 20th October 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Thursday 24th October 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

A special Safehouse double bill featuring Japanese pianist Yoko Miura.

Yoko Miura is a pianist currently living in Fukuoka, Japan. Born in Tokyo, she started studying classical piano from the age of 5 and later became interested in jazz and improvised music. She says of her musical approach: “I am trying to make a kind of different universes interweaving and exchanging with different process, values and ways, with people, not only the musicians but also painters and dancers”. She has performed and recorded with many players including Gianni Mimmo John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Mia Zabelka, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and many more.

Concentrating these days on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music, double bassist Gus Garside plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on three highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis and a duo album with the French saxophone player Hervé Perez released on the New York 577 label in 2021. He has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is making a welcome return to working with dance building a project with Mim King. He was a founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective.

James Parsons is a drummer with an affinity for free, improvised playing, and has performed in a wide range of groups over the years including Bolide, Ron Caines Trio, Bare Springs, God’s Teeth and the Interstellar Tropics, The Burbling Mind and Grass Balloon.

Viv Corringham is a US-based British vocalist and sound artist, described as “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (Corey Mwamba, BBC Radio 3). She has worked with many musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Charles Hayward, Mike Cooper, Elliott Sharp, and Maggie Nicols. She has done concerts and sound work in twenty-six countries in venues such as Hong Kong Arts Centre, Fonoteca Nacional de Mexico, Issue Project Room New York, and Institute of Contemporary Art London. “From cool Brion Gysin–esque wordplay to looped and multilayered operatic wails” (The Wire).

Lawrence Casserley has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways. He has worked with many of the leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. Casserley’s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on many CDs, and he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan.

+ The Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Wednesday 30th October 2024

Note: there is no session in Worthing this month.

6th November 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 10th November 2024
12-5pm workshops
5-8pm gig open to the public
£8 / £6 members

Safehouse has been a hub of activity for Brighton’s improvised music community for the last 20 years, so we’re having a workshop / gig / party to celebrate!

The day will run like so:

12pm-3.30pm – workshop with Cosmic Transmissions
3.30pm – 4.15pm – workshop on Gus Garside’s new piece ’20 Years’

break

5pm – 8pm – gig open to public featuring:

Rachel Musson / Mark Sanders / Olie Brice Trio
Cosmic Transmissions (conducted improvisations)
Gus Garside’s ’20 Years’

Sunday 17th November 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Wednesday 27th November 2024

No Worthing Safehouse in November – back soon!

4th December 2024
7pm
£3 / £2 members

Sunday 8th December 2024
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3 

Tuesday December 17th 2023
7.30pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
At The Coach House, 22 Walpole Road, Brighton, BN2 0EA

Note the different venue! Coach House, not Rose Hill

Zimmermann/Lienhard

Swiss experimental duo Zimmermann / Lienhard have been active since 2018, exploring the similarities and differences of acoustic accordion and electronic oscillator sounds, playing with psycho-acoustic effects and blending.

Through the many years of playing together an impressive delicacy and intimacy of their improvised interplay has emerged.

ACZ

The trio of Safehouse members return with their often instruction-based improvisations.

Andrew Greaves: keyboards
Clive Craske: percussion
Z*qhygoem: electric guitar / electronics

Plus The Wildcard Quartet 

Plus DJ Fiery Biscuits

Sunday 19th January 2025
1pm-4.30pm
The Con Club, 139 High Street, Lewes, BN7 1XS
£3