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