Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/476783

Jim Dvorak / Harrison Smith

Jim Dvorak: trumpet
Harrison Smith: tenor/soprano saxophones bass clarinet

Jim Dvorak has performed and recorded with ‘Brotherhood of Breath’, ‘District Six’ with Harrison Smith, ‘Dreamtime’, Louis Moholo’s ‘Dedication Orchestra’,  ‘Bardo State Orchestra’ with Tibetan monks, Phil Millers ‘In Cahoots’ , ‘Mama Quartetto’, bands led by Maggie Nicols, Elton Dean, Keith Tippet and projects with dance theatre company like ‘Kosh’ and poets including Eric Mingus

Harrison Smith has worked with the American pianist Marilyn Crispell, Chris McGregor, Eddie Prevost and has performed with such varied groups as South African inspired ‘District Six’, Barry Guy’s ‘London Jazz Composers Orchestra’, the much celebrated’ Free Jazz Quartet’ with Paul Rutherford and presently with ‘London Improvisers Orchestra’, and jazz groups ‘Dill Katz Quartet’ and the ‘Harrison Smith Quartet

John Butcher / Olie Brice

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, Gino Robair, Polwechsel, Mark Sanders, John Tilbury, and Okkyung Lee.

Olie Brice is an improvising double bassist. 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.

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/480929

Emil Karlsen

Emil Karlsen, originally from Norway, is a young drummer/improviser currently based in Leeds, UK. His playing highlights dynamics, timbre and textures, all done with an organic mindset. His work as improviser consists of doing both acoustic and electro-acoustic solo performances, working in ensembles spanning from duos to octets and beyond, exploring graphic scores with an interest in audio visuals using both digital and analogue medias, all done with a focus on creating boundary-pushing music. His mentality of exploring the sonic possibilities of the drum kit is brought into all of his projects forming his unique expression. Apart from being a busy performer, he also run the label noumenon – a label for improvised music with a Scandinavian presence.

“Emil Karlsen is an independently minded drummer whose playing balances organic looseness with a dynamic, propulsive energy”

– Paul Hession (UK)

“Emil is a wonderful young drummer/percussionist who plays with power, delicacy and originality”

– Mark Sanders (UK)

Garside/Jackson/Marzaioli/Nickells

Gus Garside: double bass
Alan Jackson: homemade electronics
Maria Marzaioli: violin/voice
Kev Nickells: violin/oud/guitar

Wildcard Quartet

Peter Pick: saxophone
Marc James Muir: voice
Dave Allen: electric guitar
Al Strachan: cornet + electronics

Tickets:  https://www.wegottickets.com/event/486095

Sue Lynch: tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute

Sue Lynch currently runs The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover.  She has performed with Eddie Prevost, Hutch Demouilpied, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel, Sharon Gal and John Edwards . She has played internationally, including a recent set at Guess Who Festival in Urecht with pyschedelic Sudanese band The Scorpios,  as well as solo at Le Pied Nu Festival, France.
www.suelynch.wordpress.com

(Photo by Pierre Bouvier Patron)

Adam Bowman: objects / voice

Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam’s music is unique and experimental, incorporating Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.

In Threads

In Threads is the improvising trio of James Parsons on drums, Verity Spott on cello and Daniel Spicer on winds, strings and things.  They have a new album on vinyl called Orange Justice out on Eyeless Records later this year.

The Wildcard Quartet

Alan Jackson: self-built instruments
Kev Moore: electronics
Z*qhygoem: guitar/electronics/voice
JayBee: electric guitar

Tickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/487884

Fourth Page

Fourth Page was 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. Now, after a few years spent concentrating on other projects and collaborations (often with each other in various combinations) the quartet are back together.

This time the band’s sound is a little harder edged, more electric. Maybe this is a refection of the harder edged times we live in at the close of the decade, but at the heart of Fourth Page’s music there’s still a luminous, fragile beauty.

Their new album ‘Live Wales – Hungary’ is out now. You can listen below or buy it here on LEO records.

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

https://www.facebook.com/4thpagemusic/
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=2f92Vfx5CIA&feature=youtu.be
https://fourthpage.bandcamp.com/

Bare Springs

Tom Roberts: bass guitar, keyboard
Ade Fettucini: guitar, things
James Parsons: drums
Peter Pick: saxophones

Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, including a trio with Hannah Marshall and Julie Kjaer, a duo with bassist Olie Brice, and a trio with Mark Sanders and John Edwards who have released a recent album Bibimbap on Two Rivers Records.

Rachel also features on a trio album released this year with Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, and a quartet album with William Parker, Daniel Carter and Federico Ughi. She plays regularly on the London and International improvised music and free jazz scene.

Olie Brice is a double bassist who may well be familiar to Safehouse regulars, having appeared previously with John Butcher, Luis Vicente and Mark Sanders to name a few. 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

Incus, Malleus and Stapes

Improv trio utilising some aleatoric methods:

Alan Jackson— plays the “Electric Bullroarer” – part homemade electronics, part modular synthesizer, it is a kit of parts for exploring feedback and resonance. It uses pressure, tilt, motion, microphones and string to control its sound, usually shaping some kind of feedback process.

Marc Muir likes to use his mouth to explore the more disconcerting facets of his mind.

Simon Mclennan uses guitar and electronics to explore harmony and resonance.

Wildcard Quartet

Tickets: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/492492

Ivo Perelman

Born in 1961 in São Paulo, Brazil, Perelman was a classical guitar prodigy who tried his hand at many other instruments – including cello, clarinet, and trombone – before gravitating to the tenor saxophone. His initial heroes were the cool jazz saxophonists Stan Getz and Paul Desmond. But although these artists’ romantic bent still shapes Perelman’s voluptuous improvisations, it would be hard to find their direct influence in the fiery, galvanic, iconoclastic solos that have become his trademark.

“Perelman is one of the great saxophone virtuosi and exponents of spontaneous composition to have emerged in the past three decades.” –Jazzwise

“Sax extraordinaire Ivo Perelman is one of the most advanced living practitioners of the tenor saxophone…the Brazilian-born sax master’s ability to create out of thin air has few if any peers.” – Something Else

Phil Minton

For most of the last forty years, Minton has been working as an improvising vocalist. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians.

Since the 80s, his Feral Choir, in which he voice-conducts workshops and concerts, has performed in over twenty countries.

“Phil Minton is best known for his startling vocal improvisations. On his new solo CD, this sensible looking man proffers 37 thin slices of his unfettered soul. Not long ago these croaks, burps, high-pitched exhalations, deep-throated drones and shreds of garbled half-language would have seen Minton either burnt or hailed as an emissary of God.” – Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times

Jean Michel Van Schouwburg is an improvising singer from Belgium. He is well versed in all sorts of vocalising: throat singing, overtones, yodels, mouth sounds, falsettos, multiphonics, invented languages to name a few.

Here he is in Peter Strickland’s 2012 movie Berberian Sound Studio, playing himself playing a goblin:

Jonathan Higgins

Jonathan Higgins is a sound artist and performer based in London who focuses on finding different ways of utilising noise to create music. Frustrated with the limitations of conventional digital DJ equipment Jonathan modified CD players to uncover a world of noise usually hidden within the circuitry. For the past year he has been performing ‘glitch turntablism’ with a setup of three hacked Sony Discman players and a cheap DJ mixer.

Wildcard Quartet

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/493105

Trevor Watts

Since the 1960s Trevor Watts has been at the forefront of many innovations as a saxophone player, percussionist and composer. He is the only founder member of The Spontaneous Music Ensemble still left – other founder members were John Stevens & Paul Rutherford, and later members included Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, Evan Parker and Derek Bailey. His Amalgam group began in 1967 with bassist Barry Guy and trombonist Paul Rutherford, and he was a founder member of Barry Guy’s London Jazz Composers Orchestra. He was the instigator behind the Moire Music Group and The Drum Orchestra, which involved musicians from North and South Africa and Latin America. He has played with many great US jazz musicians, including Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Kent Carter, Rashied Ali, Steve Swallow and Bobby Bradford.

http://www.trevorwatts.co.uk
https://soundcloud.com/moire-watts

Jamie Harris

Between 2003 and 2007 Jamie played in an acclaimed duo with Trevor Watts and was also during this time involved in a trio with Watts and the Mexican percussionist and inventor of the Urukungolo Gibran Cervantes. The Watts/Harris duo performed widely (USA, Dominican Rep, Brazil, Mongolia, Highlands and Islands of Scotland), and there are three CD releases from this period to date.

In 2019 the Watts/Harris duo return with a new set of rhythmical charged composition .

Plus playing for the first time as a quartet…..

Ron Caines: saxophones
Alice Eldridge: cello
Gus Garside: double bass
James Parsons: drums

Ron Caines was, in the late 1960s, a founder member of pioneering UK Prog-psych group East of Eden, and has been a key member of improvising collectives in both Bristol and Brighton.

Alice Eldridge is a cellist and researcher working across sound, technology and ecology in scientific and creative domains.   She is 1/4 of all female multi-arts collective, Collectress, 1/2 of Feedback Cell, an ongoing experiment in open-ended hybrid luthiary and a regular at John Russell’s Fete Quaqua and Brighton’s Safehouse.

Gus Garside has been active as a musician since the 1970s. He is a mainstay of Safehouse, and is a member of the long-running string trio, Arc, with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill and of the electro-acoustic duo, Static Memories.

James Parsons drums with In Threads, God’s Teeth And The Interstellar Tropics and Bare Springs among others, and is also known as a dab hand in the comics department.

Plus

Wildcard Quartet

Rachel Cohen: voice / performance
Monty Oxymoron: piano
Sue Craske: percussion
Al Strachan: cornet

16th October 2021
8pm
£7 / £5 members

The Dinner Party Trio with special guest Stefano Luigi Mangia (voice) is a collective free improvising trio comprised of Anglo-Russian pianist Vladimir Miller (Moscow Composers Orchestra), Italian double-bassist Pierpaolo Martino – a founding member of avant-jazz ensembles Mondegreen and Machine3 – and British saxophonist Adrian Northover known for The Remote Viewers and London Improvisers Orchestra.

Plus performances by Simon Mclennan (guitar) and Alice Eldridge (cello).

November 25th 2021
8pm doors
£7 advance
@ The Rose Hill

Eternal Triangle

Trevor Watts / alto, soprano, composer
Veryan Weston / piano, synth
Jamie Harris / congas, percussion

Eternal Triangle play the music of Trevor Watts, compositions originally inspired by rhythmic structures from Africa and South America as well as jazz and European musical forms.

The trio is built on two duos: Veryan and Trevor first played together in Trevor’s ‘Moiré Music’ in the early 1980s and since then have had a long collaboration in the ‘Dialogues’ project where their work as open improvisers was explored together for many years worldwide. The second duo consists of Jamie and Trevor where Jamie was involved in Trevor’s ‘Celebration Band’ in the 2000s and later in a very successful duo touring worldwide and recording several CDs. The third duo with Veryan and Jamie is yet to be explored!

In July 2021 the three musicians began working together on some beautiful new pieces specifically conceived by Trevor. The development of these compositions, for instance, can happen during rehearsals or during a concert. Any player in the group can discover something new within each piece, and therefore the compositions are ever changing. The strengths of this trio are like the durable and inert strength of a triangle, where each side supports the other – ‘Eternal Triangle’. This is a music with a depth that is both expansive and honest.

TREVOR WATTS

A founder member of The Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Trevor also founded Amalgam (which included Keith Rowe) and his 1980s Moire Music Group which included Veryan Weston & Peter Knight as well as Phil Minton/Pinise Saul/Lol Coxhill many more and The Drum Orchestra (1980-1997), which involved musicians mainly from Ghana (ECM 1449 CD “A Wider Embrace”). He instigated the 35 piece collaboration with the Drum Orchestra and Teatro Negro de Barlovento (Venezuela) which toured here and also in Venezuela in the 1990’s and around the World on every continent. Other prominent musicians he’s played with include Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Kent Carter, Rashied Ali, Steve Swallow, Bobby Bradford, Cyro Baptista and Stan Tracey.

Website: http://www.trevorwatts.co.uk / https://soundcloud.com/moire-watts

VERYAN WESTON

Veryan Weston (born 1950) was awarded ‘Young Jazz Musician of 1979’ by GLAA. In the ’80s, Veryan worked internationally with Lol Coxhill (with whom he made his first recordings – Ogun 525 and Random Radar), the Eddie Prévost Quartet. At this time, he also first met Trevor working in his band Moiré Music which used a unique combination of African rhythmic structures with the European musical tradition (Arc 02).

In the ’90s, collaborations with Phil Minton whom he met through Trevor’s Moiré Music included the Ways duos, Songs from a Prison Diary awarded the Cornelius Cardew composition prize, a quartet performing extracts from Joyce’s Finnegans wake (with Phil, John Butcher and Roger Turner), and 4Walls with Luc Ex and Michael Vatcher. And most recently – Ways for an Orchestra commissioned by the Angelica Festival (Bologna, Italy – 2017)

http://veryanweston.weebly.com/

JAMIE HARRIS

Jamie attended the Jazz diploma course in Chichester as a singer, which was were he met the saxophonist Marcus Cummins who introduced him to the music of Trevor Watts. In 1999 Harris was given the opportunity to organise a music group made up of young musicians for a concert to be musically directed by Watts. This group continued to rehearse after said concert and it was during this first rehearsal with out a drummer in attendance that Watts handed Harris a drum and asked him to bang it. The group eventually became “Trevor Watts and the Celebration Band”, where Harris served as percussionist. The Celebration Band toured USA / Canada as well as playing several concerts in the UK and Europe. In 2003 Watts and Harris began performing as a duo, taking this project to Mongolia, USA/Canada, Mexico, The Dominican Republic and Brazil among other locations.

Hearn Brice Fell

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

A new free improvisation trio led by Safehouse co-founder Geoff Hearn!

January 26th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

A new quartet of Matt Clark (Matt Clark Three, Caaw) on guitar, Charlotte Keeffe (Charlotte Keeffe Quartet, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Andrew Woodhead’s Pendulums) on trumpet, Ozzy Moysey (Ancient Infinity Orchestra) on double bass and James Edmunds (Daisy Chute, Tara Lily) on drums.

Their new album is called ‘Music In Unusual Spaces’, and it documents the strange feeling of coming out of lockdown, of spaces opening up, a record of the city waking up…

“The overall effect creates a dynamic sonic quality, as if a laid-back street-level musical trio were performing their own structured and improvised material but also incorporating the ephemeral swell of sounds around them…”
Jordan Penney – AllAboutJazz.com

Plus …

Yellow Door

Ruben Aaronovitch Bruce: saxophone
Luke Woolfenden: bass
Molly O’hara: vocals
Ned Peckham: drums

Exploratory rock improvisations.

Plus…

The Wildcard Quartet

Adrian Southby: guitar / wind instruments
Rachel Cohen: voice / movement
Al Strachan: cornet / electronics
Marc Muir: voice

23 March 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

Alex Ward

We’re very happy to welcome back composer, improviser, performer and creative polymath, Alex Ward. Predominantly a guitar and clarinet player, Ward is regarded as one of the most technically accomplished performers of both free and composed music.  He has played recently as part of Pere Ubu,  and before the pandemic struck he played shows in the UK and US as part of the phenomenal This is Not This Heat.

Having had his debut record put out on Derek Bailey’s Incus label in 1990, Ward has continued to play at an astonishing level ever since. His work ranges from his formidably knotty guitar playing in avant-rock two piece Dead Days Beyond Help to his compositions-for-improvisers including Forebrace and the Alex Ward Quintet/Sextet.

His latest solo album Gated was released on Martin Archer’s Discus label – take a listen to it here:

Wednesday April 20th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

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Mutter

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

The Wildcard Quartet

Penny Howe – violin
Phil Smith – trumpet
Z*qhygoem – dulcimer
Matt Clark – guitar

Sunday May 1st 2022
7pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

A very welcome return of the drums and daxophone duo!

A pioneering Japanese guitarist and daxophone player, Kazuhisa Uchihashi is involved in a wide variety of musics, but still retains a commitment to free improvisation. Born in 1959 in Osaka, Uchihashi began to play the guitar at age 12, playing in various rock bands, though he later studied jazz music. In 1988 he joined the band the First Edition, and in 1990 formed the band Altered States. He was also a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997.

innocentrecords.bandcamp.com

Roger Turner has been working as an improvising percussionist since the early 1970s, playing both solo and in collaboration with musicians from Annette Peacock to Phil Minton, Cecil Taylor to Masahiko Satoh, Charles Gayle to Lol Coxhill, Derek Bailey to Otomo Yoshihide,  Alan Silva to Keith Rowe, Josef Nadj to Min Tanaka, Toshinori Kondo to Axel Dorner, and more besides.

He has toured and played concerts worldwide from Sydney to the Arctic, Tokyo to Belfast, New York to Beirut.

www.roger-turner.com

Plus support TBA !

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The Wildcard Quartet

Marc Muir: voice
Adrian Southby: guitar / wind
Month Oxymoron: percussion
Simon McLennan: guitar

Sunday June 19th 2022
5pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

Three exceptional improvising musicians in the form of the trio of Olie Brice (double bass), Rachel Musson (saxophone) and Mark Sanders (drums).

Rachel Musson

Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward, Alex Hawkins amongst others.

“A free-improviser sensitive to melody-like narrative and dramatic pacing” – John Fordham, The Guardian

Mark Sanders

Mark has worked with a host of renowned musicians including Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd, in duo and quartets with Wadada Leo Smith and trios with Charles Gayle with Sirone and William Parker.

In situations using composition Mark works in a number of projects including Christian Marclay’s Everyday for film and live music and John Butcher’s Tarab Cuts – both projects have performed major festivals throughout Europe and Brazil. He has performed works by guitarist John Coxon in Glasgow and Sydney playing with the Scottish and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. With New York’s ICE Ensemble he has performed John Zorn’s The Tempest in London and at Huddersfield New Music Festival.

“ubiquitous, diverse and constantly creative, drummer Mark Sanders always outdoes himself, whether playing with restraint or erupting like a dynamo.” Bruce L Gallenter, Downtown Music Gallery. NY

Olie Brice

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

Plus 

Paul Keene and Al Strachan

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.

His work includes collaborations with dancers including Emma Dunn, multimedia artists such as Christopher Janey, film-makers such as Nick Gibbon and spoken-word artists including Lemn Sissay. He has performed on BBC Radio 3 on the Andy Kershaw Show with Rise Kagona of the Bhundu Boys as a member of Culture Clash. He has also appeared with DJ Sniff from STEIM, with the Chemical Poets, free improv group Hakemira and improvised electronica duo Kresch.

Al Strachan

Al Strachan makes music with brass instruments, electronics, percussion and water.  He has played and recorded with a wide range of artists – check out his discography to see them all.

Plus 

The Wildcard Quartet

Jay Bee: guitar
Penny Howe: violin / accordion
Matt Finucane: guitar

Wednesday July 13th 2022
7pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

Please note this show runs at the slightly earlier time of 7pm-10pm

Franziska Baumann, voice, sensor live electronic & spatialised sound.

A pioneer in extended vocal technique and live electronic processing with sensor interfaces, swiss singer Franziska Baumann creates works that disclose at the intersection of voice, gesture and spatialised sound (Ambisonic) to discover and weave together new modes of perception, vocal creation and its sonic expression.

John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and many others.

Up there with the very best improv drummers in the UK, Mark Sanders has worked with a host of renowned musicians including Derek Bailey, Henry Grimes, Mathew Shipp, Evan Parker, Roswell Rudd, in duo and quartets with Wadada Leo Smith and trios with Charles Gayle with Sirone and William Parker.

Loner Club

Loner Club features acoustic percussion and voice from local sound artists Ingrid Plum and Tom Bench.

Wildcard Quartet

Line-up to be announced…

Wednesday August 10th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

Scottish bagpipes like you’ve never heard them before.

Erwan Keravec (FR) is a bagpiper, composer and improviser. He has his roots in the Breton tradition of bagpiping, but in seeking out the more unusual sounds and ways of playing and listening to his instrument, far from its original cultural setting, he is exploring improvised music, free and ‘noise’ jazz, and establishing a repertoire of contemporary music.

Erwan describes his piece Urban Pipes as “a utopia aiming to show that the bagpipe is a universal instrument. To imagine music for solo bagpipe that does not evoke its cultural origin, music that is only music, with no other function than to be listened to. This project also entails a modification of traditional playing modes, as well as work on how to use the bagpipe sound and harmonic strangeness outside of strictly melodic practice. All this seems paradoxical for a traditional musician like myself. Yet it is the way I have chosen for Urban Pipes, in order to see what kind of music I can envisage for my instrument.”

“Erwan plays music specially devised for his instrument – music of austere violence, at the same time grandiose, fundamentally modern and often radical, yet never cut off from its roots.” (Jazz Magazine)

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Joshua Le Gallienne: solo acoustic guitar

Alongside their work as a sound artist Joshua maintains a dedicated practice as an acoustic guitarist and has performed extensively since 2002. They operate predominantly in the realm of free improvisation, interested in a spatial and phenomenological exploration of acoustic sound through the steel-string acoustic guitar. They employ unorthodox techniques and alternate tunings to vastly expand the sonic possibilities of the instrument.

Joshua Legallienne from Agata Urbaniak on Vimeo.

Adam Bushell & 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.

Plus

The Wildcard Quartet

Andrew Greaves: keyboard
Paul Dalloway: guitar
Matt Clark: guitar
Z*qhygoem: dulcimer, percussion

A special double headliner gig!

Wednesday September 28th 2022
7.30pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

Ed Jones & Emil Karlsen

Saxophonist Ed Jones has played with jazz legends Horace Silver, George Benson,  Dr Lonnie Smith, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Orphy Robinson and Byron Wallen, and as a session musician he has worked with the likes of Us3 , Terry Callier, Nostalgia 77,  D’Angelo, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan and Tina Turner!

Emil Karlsen is a Norwegian improvising drummer currently based in the UK. Described as a “significant addition to the UK free jazz scene” and an “exceptional improv drummer”, he’s establishing himself on the improvised music circuit working the span from free improvisation to free jazz. Occupied with exploring the timbral and sonic possibilities of the drum kit, he performs with Philipp Wachsmann, Matthew Bourne, Phil Durrant, and the London Improvisers Orchestra to mention some.

The duo put out this excellent album last year called ‘From where light falls’, on FMR records:

“One of the best duos I’ve listened to” ★★★★ 1/2 – Fotis Nikolakopoulos (Freejazzblog)

★★★★ – Selwyn Harris (Jazzwise)

Eddie Prévost, Silvan Schmid, Tapiwa Svosve & Richard Scott

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The Wildcard Quartet

Paul Dallaway – guitar
Alan Jackson – homemade electronics
Marc Muir – voice
Matt Clark – guitar