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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.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

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.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

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.

+ The Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

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!

 

Eddie Prévost / Silvan Schmid / Olie Brice + Mutter

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

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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