Tuesday October 11th 2022
8pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

Sloth Racket

Sam Andreae / alto saxophone
Cath Roberts / baritone saxophone and compositions
Anton Hunter / guitar
Seth Bennett / double bass
Johnny Hunter / drums

‘Watching Sloth Racket perform is a thrilling experience, conveying a palpable sense that the musicians are navigating the scores by the seat of their pants, making real-time group decisions that sculpt the compositions into unique shapes each time they’re played.’
– Daniel Spicer, The Wire, December 2021

Sloth Racket is a band of improvisers from London, Manchester and Dundee. Baritone saxophone player Cath Roberts creates scores that form the skeleton of the music, and the band constructs a collective sound out of those pages in the moment. Since forming in 2015 they have toured regularly, appeared at numerous UK festivals, and are releasing their fifth album on the Luminous label this year.

The results range across musical territories from fiery free jazz, to minimal improv textures, to deep grooves.

‘The Sloth Racket sound is broadly comparable to that of Tim Berne’s Bloodcount, the mid ’90s New York quintet with the same instrumentation, or the earthier, brawnier sound of Chicago as filtered through Peter Brötzmann’s Tentet.’
– Tim Owen, Dalston Sound

‘an agreeably spicy goulash of free improvisation, grumpy riffs and bluesy themes’
– Stewart Smith, The Quietus

‘nobody in their right mind is going to call this row slothful’
– Spencer Grady, Record Collector

Plus

Simian Carbuncle

A new guitar duo featuring Matt Clark and Adrian Southby.

and…

The Wildcard Quartet

A special double headliner gig!

Wednesday November 23rd 2022
7pm doors
£7 / £5 members
@ The Rose Hill

John Edwards, Kjetil Møstar & Dan Erik Knedal

A great trio that sees one of the world’s most consistently compelling bass players, John Edwards, pitted alongside two of the most in-demand players in the Norwegian improv scene in the form of saxophonist / clarinetist / composer Kjetil Møster, and Oslo-based drummer Dag Erik Knedal Andersen.

Kjetil Møster‘s approach sits at the interface between electronic based rock, improv and jazz, and together with Maja S.K. Ratkje, Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug, he started the «All Ears» festival in 2002. Perhaps best known for his “hyperactive-take-no-prisoners” approach to drumming, Dag Erik Knedal Andersen has been an ubiquitous musician on the Norwegian improvised music scene over the last couple of years, as well as touring all over Europe with groups such as SAKA and AKODE.

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.

He will play a solo improvised piano set for this gig.

Plus The Wildcard Quartet

Friday January 13th 2023
7.30pm doors
£8 / £6 members + unwaged
@ The Bees Mouth

NB – note the different venue for this gig!

Koch, Kocher & Badrutt Trio

Hans Koch: bass clarinet
Gaudenz Badrutt: electronics
Jonas Kocher: accordion

Playing since 2014, this trio consists of three major figures of the Swiss improvised music scene. Koch, Kocher & Badrutt play a subtle electro-acoustic improvised music, blending acoustic sources and electronics in a surprising way to create a music full of unpredictable events.  Their second release is called Archytas Curve.

“I am stunned by the immediacy of the improvising. They have developed a special way of playing fast and slow simultaneously. It seems to come from a finely tuned interactive understanding, one that makes me think of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio of the early sixties, but with a different arsenal of shapes and textures. Similar reverence for held sounds, extremes of register, brilliant action that ends with a stuck landing. “
John Corbett

Hans Koch (*1948, bass clarinet, saxophone, electronics) is mainly known as a member of the Hardcore Chambermusic Trio Koch-Schütz-Studer, but also as a soloist as well as for his collaborations with Phil Minton, Fred Frith, Paul Lovens etc. As a bass clarinet player he has developed a very personal style.

The electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt (*1972) is mainly known as one half of the electroacoustic duo strøm (together with Christian Müller, electronics and bass clarinet), as well as soloist, member of Koch, Kocher & Badrutt or the Baldrian Quartet. Gaudenz Badrutt’s music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices.

Jonas Kocher‘s work explores the relationships between tone, noise and silence and the process of listening, this as improviser as well as in his compositions. As accordionist he works exclusively in improvised and conceptual contexts. Plays with Jacques Demierre, Axel Dörner etc.

This show has been able to happen thanks to the financial support of the Swiss Cultural Fund UK.

Luís Vicente & Olie Brice

Luís Vicente is a Portugese trumpet player, improviser and composer. He has recorded several times for the Clean Feed label and works with the likes of John Dikeman, Rodrigo Amado and Wilbert De Joode.

“Trumpeter Vicente is a significant emerging talent, a brassy, forceful trumpeter with a quick mind…”
Stuart Broomer, Point Of Departure

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

“Versatile and slinking” (Peter Margasak, Downbeat)

Wildcard Quartet

Marc James Muir: voice
Pete Dixon: guitar
Andrew Greaves: keyboards
Paul Dallaway: guitar

Saturday January 28th 2023
2pm – 5pm
£10 / £8 ADV  members + unwaged, £10 OTD
@ The Prince Albert

John Butcher & Ståle Liavik Solberg

John Butcher – saxophones

John Butcher was born in Brighton, and has lived in London since the late 1970s. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics.

Originally a theoretical physicist, he published his Ph.D in 1982 and then left academia for music. He has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians, mostly involved with improvisation – including Derek Bailey, John Stevens,  Rhodri Davies, Okkyung Lee, Toshimaru Nakamura, Eddie Prevost and Christian Marclay.

Ståle Liavik Solberg – drums

Ståle Liavik Solberg  has established a base for himself as a central part of Oslo’s thriving improvised music scene. Working with ensembles VCDC, Will it float? (with John Russell, Steve Beresford & John Edwards), Silva-Rasmussen-Solberg trio and in duos with Fred Lonberg-Holm and John Russell his open and attentive drumming has received many positive responses from musicians and audiences in both Europe and the USA.

Dhangsha

Systemet

Using their custom self-made synthesizers and octophonic sound system, Swedish collective Systemet create a unique take on noise and drone music.

DJ Fiery Biscuits (Slack City/Radio Reverb)

The load bearing flouty pelmvessel responsible for The Damping Wells will be grouting with gingernuts betwixt doors and curfew interposed. It’s his BIRTHDAY too so shower him with intoxicating unguents pop kids!!!

Wednesday February 15th 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6  members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Steve Beresford, Faradena Afifi and Paul Khimasia Morgan

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, and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca Regina, he is part of Unpredictable Series, which produces events and sound and video recordings of experimental music and art.

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.

“...feedback-like tones rising carefully amid a cloud of metal thorns…more physicality than most you hear, which gives the performance some nice faux visual weight.”
– Byron Coley in The Wire

Fourth Page

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

Fourth Page 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.

“...improvised songs that are studiously enigmatic and elusive. … the instrumental tracks are equally alluring. “Diablerie” melds scrap metal scrapes with rippling electric piano and Beresford’s edge of feedback guitar hum. “Edgeplay” is a 20 minute vista of rattle ‘n’ thud percussion, scattered plucks and sustained synth wash that goes nowhere beautifully.”
– Daniel Spicer, The Wire

https://www.facebook.com/4thpagemusic/
https://fourthpage.bandcamp.com/

Plus

Wildcard Quartet

Line-up TBA

Thursday March 16th 2023
8.00pm
£8 / £6  members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/567407

This is a co-promotion with Phonocene

Kodian Trio

Simian Carbuncle

Wildcard Quartet

DJ Fiery Biscuits

Thursday April 27th 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6  members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Tickets: www.wegottickets.com/event/569044

Hearn Brice Fell

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

A welcome return from the trio led by Safehouse co-founder Geoff Hearn!

The Wildcard Quartet

Line-up TBA

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

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

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

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

Thursday November 23rd 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
At The Coach House, 22 Walpole Road, Brighton, BN2 0EA

Please note the change of venue!  We are back at The Rose Hill in December, but for this gig we’re at the lovely Coach House in Kemptown!

Lawrence 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.

Philipp Wachsmann is regarded by many as an outstanding improviser of great invention. He has always been able to create new approaches within improvised music utilising acoustic and electronic sources. He considers himself to be “fortunate to have toured with Derek Bailey, Christine Jeffries, and Frank Perry in the 70’s, and more recently with Evan Parker’s Electro-acoustic Ensemble”. He can be heard on over 100 LP’s & CD’s – groups including, King Ubu, the LJCO, Iskra 1903, Stellari String Quartet, Duos with Paul Lytton (ECM and Bead), Lawrence Casserley, Matthew Hutchinson and Roger Turner.

Currently living in London, Pascal Marzan performs on a 10 string microtonal guitar.
After studying classical guitar – mainly devoted to the twentieth century repertoire – and teaching guitar in several music schools in Budapest, Hungary and France, Pascal has dedicated himself to free improvisation and the exploration of microtonal tunings of his instrument. His playing has been influenced by his interest in the folk musics of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

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:

Plus

ACZ

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

Plus The Wildcard Quartet and DJ Fiery Biscuits

Wednesday December 20, 2023
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Jacques Demierre: piano
Axel Dörner: trumpet
Jonas Kocher: accordion

A new ensemble consisting of three leading figures of the improvising scene in Europe. The trio plays an improvised music totally focused on the here and now.
The music of these three very strong players covers a wide musical range going from silence and tiny sound lines to eruptive and sharp sonic attacks, sound and listening forming the core of the music, rather than any stylistic idiom.

Jacques Demierre

Jacques Demierre is pianist, performer and composer, his musical and sound work develops itself in various directions : improvised music, contemporary music, sound poetry, sound installation. His compositions and sound realisations are concerned with the activity of listening and with sound space. On the piano, Jacques Demierre has developed a unique operating style, never ceasing to redraw new sound topographies, making us forget the physical weight of the instrument.

Axel Dörner

German trumpeter Axel Dörner has a unique style of playing based on unusual, often self-invented techniques that make use of breath and microscopic sounds as much as conventional note-playing.

Jonas Kocher

Jonas Kocher is a sound artist and accordionist with a strong interest in process oriented works and improvisation. He currently works with Joke Lanz, Axel Dörner, Jacques Demierre, Gaudenz Badrutt, Hans Koch, with the Šalter Ensemble, Ilia Belorukov, Eiko Yamada, Frantz Loriot, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinsky, Klaus Filip and many others. As sound artist Jonas Kocher has realised works that are situated between composed theatre, installation and concert pieces.

The tour is supported by Pro Helvetia, the City of Biel/Bienne, the Canton of Berne and the Canton and Republic of Geneva.

Ron Caines, I’m Dr Bouyant and Andrew Greaves

Saxophonist Ron Caines was a key player with the UK prog outfit East of Eden  in the late ’60s and early ’70s, and then shifted focus to playing improvised music in Bristol.  He has had a number of albums released by Martin Archer’s Discus label in recent years, to great critical acclaim.  In this trio he joins two musicians that can be regularly found playing at Brighton’s long standing electronica night Spirit of Gravity.

Wildcard Quartet

With Monty Oxymoron, Adrian Southby, Dave Allen and Andrius Radavicius.

DJ Fiery Biscuits

Wednesday January 31, 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

Sentient Beings

Faith Brackenbury: violin
Tony Bianco: drums
John Pope: double bass
John O’Gallagher: saxophone

Four strongly individualistic improvising voices from the US and UK come together for an exploration of spontaneous composition. Blending US saxophonist John O’Gallagher’s cerebral study of 12 tone improvising and the music of John Coltrane, UK violinist/violist/vocalist Faith Brackenbury’s jazz and contemporary strings and inventive use of effects, UK bassist John Pope’s energetic jazz, pop and rock influences and Tony Bianco’s mercurial and octopusian drumming will create a spiritual, intellectual, powerfully absorbing experience.

Dragons of Disgust

Dragons of Disgust are a wonky avant prog jazz metal power trio made up of Ned Peckham (Yellow Door) on drums, Ruben Aaronovich-Bruce (Yellow Door/Howling Spheres) on tenor saxophone and Adrian Southby (ChopChop/The Golgis/Simian Carbuncle) on baritone guitar. They play a combination of tricky compositions and disturbing improvised soundscapes. On stage they laugh a lot. Don’t look for evidence online, there isn’t any.

+ Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Thursday February 29th 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

The Remote Viewers

Adrian Northover: saxophones
John Edwards: double bass
David Petts: saxophones

Since their inception 20 years ago The Remote Viewers have released 14 albums of genre-defying music that melds free-improvisation with song form and suite-like compositions, and they conjure up an overall feeling of listening to a soundtrack to an as yet unmade film.

The group has been a mutable beast over the years, but saxophonists Adrian Northover and David Petts have been present as core members throughout. They are joined in the trio version of the group by John Edwards, whose energy and inventiveness on the double bass never fails to impress.

They will have a new CD called ‘This Strange Place’ on the merch table at the gig, and there is also a download-only release around the same time called ‘The Tank in the Clinic’.

https://theremoteviewers.bandcamp.com/

Hutch Demouilpied & Sue Lynch Duo

Hutch Demouilpied is a composer, sound designer and musician who is based in the UK. “Hutch Demouilpied’s excellent, sparingly used score suddenly takes on a keening electro edge….” Variety Magazine 2017

As an accomplished musician she plays trumpet and has her own music released and has performed with Sue Lynch, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Mark Sanders and Eddie Prevost amongst others. She co-promotes the Horse Improvised Music Club and her podcast Improvisor is well worth checking out.

www.hutchdemouilpied.com

Sue Lynch currently runs ‘The Horse Improvised Music Club’ with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover. She performs with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Richard Sanderson, Anna Homler, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel and Sharon Gal.

In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival with Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band, The Scorpios.

Solo performance at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre 2019. Recent releases with FMR records with ‘Dial’, a quartet featuring, Sue Lynch, Dawid Frydyk, John Edwards and Dave Fowler and ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore.

https://suelynch.bandcamp.com/
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The Wildcard Quartet

Line-up TBC
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+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

Wednesday March 20, 2024
7.00pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Rose Hill

OBTRAM 3

Anthony Moore: piano, guitar, electronics, voice
Olie Brice: double bass
Tullis Rennie: trombone

OBTRAM 3 is a new trio put together by Anthony Moore, who was a founding member of  Slapp Happy, and a collaborator with Henry Cow and This Heat.

Anthony Moore
British experimental music composer, performer and producer. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and has made a number of solo albums. From 1995 -2015 he was professor for sound art and music, working on the social and technical history of sound in Cologe. From 2000 to 2004 he was the principal of the Academy of Media Arts in Köln, Germany. Now based in the UK, he operates across many genres; ambient drone, musique concrète and immersive, multi-channel sound installations. He continues to compose, perform and release work on various labels such as Touch, Drag City (Chicago), P-Vine (Tokyo) and others.

Olie Brice
Olie 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.

Tullis Rennie
Tullis is a composer, electronic musician, improvising trombonist, and field recordist. His varied career to date has touched upon many different conceptual approaches, examining the impact of listening with jazz musicians Matthew Bourne and Graham South on 2018’s vinyl-only release Muscle Memory, and investigating the hidden process of performance preparation with Manchester- based Vonnegut Collective on 2021’s 48 Hours (Moving Furniture Records).

Adam Bushell + Paul Khimasia Morgan

Adam Bushell: vibraphone
Paul Khimasia Morgan: amplified acoustic guitar body

Second outing of this recently formed duo!

+ Wildcard Quartet

+ DJ Fiery Biscuits

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

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.

Wildcard Quartet

DJ Fiery Biscuits