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.

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The Wildcard Quartet

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