Tuesday April 1st
8pm
£8 / £6 members + concs
@ The Cowley Club, Brighton
PLEASE NOTE! Different venue to usual: The Cowley Club!
Raymond MacDonald & Jer Reid
Safehouse are very happy to welcome two key members of the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra – the main hub for improvisation in Scotland! Saxophonist Raymond MacDonald and electric guitarist Jer Reid met through the GIO. They’ve been touring the UK and recording together since 2017, have released several CDs together over the last few years.
Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist and composer who has released over 60 records and toured and broadcast worldwide. His work explores the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition.
Much of his recent performing work has been in collaborative free improvisation contexts, however his roots in jazz and pop music are always evident in his playing and writing. MacDonald collaborates widely and has worked with visual artists, dancers, writers and filmmakers and has produced music for film, television, theatre and the concert hall.
MacDonald has worked internationally with many of the current pioneers in avant-garde music including David Byrne, Damo Suzuki, Nurse with Wound, German trumpeter Axel Dorner, the sublime US pianist Marilyn Crispell, US trombonist and educator George Lewis, The Necks and ex-Sonic Youth guitarist Jim O’Rourke .
His album Buddy was also named in top CDs of year in Wire magazine, Jazzwise and All about Jazz.
Jer Reid is an electric guitarist with a very raw and dynamic approach. He has spent a lifetime engaged with live and recorded music in a whole gamut of forms: from working with dancers, to sound design, dramaturgy and film composition. He has improvised with poets, played music or sound teched in about 30 countries; facilitated improvising workshops and sessions; released records and had his music played on Radio 1, 3, 4 and 6.
Andrew Clare & Iain Paxon
Andrew Clare is mostly known as the singer, guitarist and founder of the band I’m Being Good, but he’s also had a hand in many experimental and improvised projects over the years, going all the way back to an early collaboration with Thurston Moore and Derek Bailey called ‘The Thirteen Ghosts’. His label Infinite Chug has been releasing records for over 30 years.
“slinging deliriously woozy lead guitars over tightly wound, angular art-rock foundations.” Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times.
Iain Paxon has made 20 albums with the group Hamilton Yarns, as well as numerous solo projects, such as his bicycle-based album Inside the Wheel. Regular Safehousers will of course know him as the host of the monthly Safehouse Lewes sessions!
