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The Summer is here.....although the weather thinks otherwise! Some awe-inspiring performances in August to fully re-charge your electro-acoustic batteries if the credit crunch prevents that package holiday to Malaga...may be no bad thing to stay at home and spend inexpensive but worthwhile time with the cream of home-grown talent in the world of improvisation and boundary-destroying performance. Breaking news......FluxImprov gets in on the act with its first live performance event from the ever-exciting and genre-defying Polar Bear who appear at The Electric Theatre, Guildford on Monday 12th October 2009 (see flyer below for details). Please feel free to make e-mail contact or send listings to: fluximprov@hotmail.co.uk or call Derek Sanders on 07887 534380.
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INVITATION FOR ANGLO-JAPANESE IMPROV/FREE JAZZ LINKS
FluxImprov is looking to forge links with the improvisation/free jazz scene in Japan with a view to a year-long project focusing on what is happening on the scene there and how it filters into the UK scene. I would love to hear from promoters, musicians et al working the scene in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya. Hiroshima ......wherever...... as well as from Japanese musicians from the genre working in the UK with a view to regular features on this site and the potential for live performance/events. Please email details, information, contibutions etc to Derek Sanders at fluximprov@hotmail.co.uk.
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FluxImprov 'gig of the month' Friday 28th to Sunday 30th August 2009 Avantgarde, Germany Faust's Jean-Herve curates a weekend in Northern Germany with the live performance from the likes of Faust, Nurse With Wound, Dagnar Krause & Slap Happy, Danielle Dax, Helena Gough, Peter Blegvad Trio, James Johnston & Phillipa Petit and so so much more......Booking the flight now!!!!! |
Schiphorst Steinhorster Weg 2 €60-€50/Festival Pass |
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Saturday 1st August 2009 Field Day
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London Victoria Park Doors open: 11.30am
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Sunday 2nd August 2009 The London Improvisers Orchestra marches on . . . . |
London Cafe Oto 18 - 22 Ashwin Street Dalston, London Doors open: 8.00pm Admission: £6/£4 info@cafeoto.co.uk
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Tuesday 4th August 2009 Dominic Lash (bass), Al Easton (guitar) and David Hayley (dums) |
The Klinker
Admission: £5/£3
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Thursday 6th August 2009 Duets With Algorithms
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London Cafe Oto 18 - 22 Ashwin Street Dalston, London
Doors open: 7.30pm Reservations: andi@cenatus.org
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Friday 7th August to Sunday 9th August 2009 Tatsuya Yoshida Ruins drummer works the London circuit in his own inimitable style in company with Charles Heywood |
Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion (7th only) Doors open: Admission: £5/£4
London Cafe Oto (8th and 9th) Dalston, London Doors open: 7.30pm
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Sunday 9th August 2009 The Eddie Prevost Quartet Eddie performs with Nathaniel Catchploe, Philip Somervell and Guillaume Viltard |
The Vortex 11 Gillett Square Doors open: 8.30pm
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Monday 10th August 2009 Alexander Hawkins Ensemble album launch gig (with Javier Carmona, Otto Fischer, Hannah Marshall, Dominic Lash and Orphy Robinson)
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The Vortex 11 Gillett Square Doors open: 8.30pm
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Tuesday 11th August 2009 Dominic Lash (bass) performing John Cage's Four6 with Chris Goode, Harry Gilonis and Josh Robinson Openned |
The Foundry
Admission: free
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Friday 14th to Sunday 16th August 2009 Free Rotation Three sound-systems - all beautifully electronic within the sumptious grounds of Baskerville Hall, Hay-on-Wye featuring Marcel Dettmann, s562, Shackleton, Efdermin, Move D, Deverelist, Ramadanman, Portable AKA Bodycose, Ben UFO. Film presentations also.
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Baskerville Hall Hay-on-Wye Admission: £65 www.freerotation.com |
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Friday 14th to Sunday 16th August 2009 La Route du Rock Eclectic mix with My Bloody Valentine, FluxImprov favourites Tortoise, Bill Callaghan, Peaches with Sweet Machine, Gang Gang Dance, Four Tet and Deerhunter amongst many...
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St Malo, Bretagne, France (various venues across St Malo) €89 Festival Pass (includes t-shirt) www.laroutedurock.com |
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Monday 17th August 2009 Dominic Lash (dble bass) in trio with Will Connors (drums) and Dave Q (voice) |
Boat-Ting
Admission: £6/£4 www.boat-ting.com
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Sunday 16th to Tuesday 18th August 2009 Fete QuaQua Mopomoso's annual improv bash featuring ensemble and smaller groups exploring and collaborations with the sublime playing of John Russell in peformance with Pat Thomas, John Butcher, Lol Coxhill, Satoko Fukuda, Hannajh Marshall, Ute Voelker, Sabu Toyozumi - quite simply a mouth-watering line up...........see you there!!
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The Vortex 11 Gillett Square Doors open: 8.30pm www.mopomoso.com
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Thursday 20th August 2009 The regular Klinker night north of the river features Dominic Lash (dble bass) in duo with Karl da Silva (alto saxophone) |
The Klinker Doors open; 8.00pm Admission £5/£3
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Thursday 20th August 2009
A gathering of affinities, times and ethnicities A rare and unique moment to see this exciting String Quartet playing with the special guest from Taiwan, the Pipa performer Luo Chao-yun, who is visiting UK for some festival concerts plus Rodrigo Montoya (Brazil) on the tsugaru-shamisen, Marcio Mattos (Brazil/UK) on the cello & electronics and John Edwards (UK) on the double bass. Luo Chao-yun gained a Master's degree in Pipa Performance at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and now teaches at the National Hsin-Chu University of Education in Taiwan. A virtuoso, she is a tireless international ambassador for the instrument, equally at home with traditional Chinese and contemporary music, performing as a soloist or ensemble member and giving master classes and lecture recitals in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Far East. Among the many groups she has appeared with are the Taipei Municipal, Grass Mountain Traditional and Penang Hui Yin Seh orchestras. Luo Chao-yun is supported by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Republic of China. Rodrigo Montoya began Japanese music studies on Tsugaru-Shamisen in the Japanese Community from his birthplace city Sao Paulo-Brazil. There he has performed in japanese folk groups and in the Brazilian improvised music scene. He came to London in 2008 where he has collaborated with many musicians from the London improv scene as the London Improvisers Orchestra and also he has performed in Japanese festivals playing Tsugaru shamisen music. Founding member of the Brazilian improvising group 'ABAETETUBA', which has recently toured Europe. Marcio Mattos has performed as cellist and double bassist in a variety of recordings and concerts of improvised, jazz and new music since the 1970s. After entering the Villa-Lobos institute in Rio de Janeiro he began his involvement with improvised and electronic music. Mattos moved to Europe in 1970, and since has worked with just about every leading member of the international improvised music scene including Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Derek Bailey's Company, John Surman, Marilyn Crispell, Dewey Redman, John Butcher and many more. He has worked with dance companies, such as The Extemporary Dance Theatre Company, and Ballet Rambert. Projects Mattos has been involved in include: various versions of Elton Dean's groups, Tony Oxley's Celebration Orchestra, Eddie Prevost Quartet, AXON with Phil Minton and Martin Blume, LINES with Phil Wachsmann, electro-acoustic music groups such as the West Square Electronic Music Ensemble, and as a duo with shakuhachi player Shiku Yano. He also works and exhibits as a ceramic artist (trained at Goldsmiths College). John Edwards is one of London's most in-demand, uncompromising, imaginative double bass players, and one of the most significant players of his generation. Since taking up the double bass in 1987 and playing with the Pointy Birds and the Cholomondeleys dance company he went on to play with B Shops for the Poor, The Honkies and GOD as well as busking in the street and composing and performing music theatre with The Great Explorers. Since the early 1990s he has built a reputation as one of the finest, and most in demand bass players currently active on the British and European improv/ jazz and New music scenes- a first choice for musicians such as Evan Parker, Louis Moholo, Veryan Weston, Charles Hayward and Spring Heel Jack- Other groups include BRUISE and the Obliquity trio with Alan Wilkinson and Noble.
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St Mary's Old Church Admission: £8/£5 concs. Buses 393, 73, 476. |
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Tuesday 25th August 2009 Tortoise Chicagoan post-rock/krautrock FluxImprov favourites perform material from the wondrous 'Beacons of Ancestorship'.
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London Garage Doors open: 7.00pm Admission: £13 |
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Sunday 22nd August 2009 Radio Black Forest Electro-acoustic, drone, psych and folk spread over two stages and featuring Colin Potter, Tusk, Psychedelic Desert, Lin Zhang, Noonmoos, Cities Prepare for Attack!, Collosloth, Drean Dream The Dreams Orchestra and Hoofus.
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Wagon and Horses 28 Adderley Street, Bordesley Green, Birmingham Doors open: 5.00pm Admission: 310 myspace.com/radioblackforest |
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Safehouse Brighton presents ON THE EDGE Improvised and experimental music Entrance £6.00/£5.00 (members & unwaged) NO AUGUST EVENT BUT WATCH THIS SPACE FOR SEPTEMBER'S LISTING upstairs at the OPEN HOUSE pub, Springfield Road, Brighton, BN1(next to London Road Train Station)
0844 999 6335
The Wildcard Quartet further information from or www.myspace.com/safehousebrighton The Safehouse collective welcomes adventurous improvisers - acoustic or electronic - to its OPEN EVENINGS on the first Wednesday of every month. The Safehouse continues its ON THE EDGE performances on the last Wednesday of every month
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| Date: Saturday 5 September Time: 19:30 Venue: Kings Place, St Pancras Price: £4.50 Max Eastley (UK) sound sculptor and painter, music instrument maker, kinetic sound sculptures
www.kingsplace.co.uk
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ConCert series at Cafe Oto
Dominic Lash (dble bass), Lawrence Williams (clarinet) Karl D’Silva (alto sax), Daniela de Paulis (cracklebox), Kota Terao (recorder) http://workshopseries.wordpress.com
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Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL
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Tanya Tagaq
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“Tanya is directly musically in touch with something that is almost a ghost. To me, it is something that is so special and so much a part of the earth and the land and the environment” DAVID HARRINGTON, KRONOS QUARTET “ Traditional throat singing is a game between two women that is an emulation of the sounds from the land” TANYA TAGAQ ‘Indescribable’ is not an appropriate word to beginan artist’s bio, nor is it suitable as a description of a musician. The problem is this: when Tanya Tagaqs’ music fills your ears, she is one of those rare artists whose sounds and styles are truly groundbreaking. ‘Inuit throat singer’ is one part of her sonic quotient. So are descriptions like ‘orchestral’ ‘hip-hopinfused’ and ‘primal’…but these words are not usually used collectively. In the case of Tagaq, however – they are. So much has happened to Tagaq since the release of her debut CD Sinaa (meaning ‘edge’ in her ancestral language of Inuktitut) in 2005. The Nunavut born singer has not just attracted the attention of some of the world’s most groundbreaking artists, they have invited her to participate on their own musical projects. Tanya has recently recorded once again with Björk (on the soundtrack for the Matthew Barney film Drawing Restraint 9) having already appeared on Björk’s Medúlla CD in 2004 and accompanied her on the Vespertine tour. In 2007, another collaborative project came to fruition when the Kronos Quartet invited Tanya to participate – as co-writer and performer – on a project aptly titled Nunavut, which has been performed at select venues across North America, from its January 2008 debut at the Chan Centre in Vancouver, BC through to New York’s Carnegie Hall. Acclaim and respect has followed Tagaq on her solo ventures as well: both Sinaa and Auk / Blood were nominated for a Juno Award (Best Aboriginal Recording) and (Best Instrumental Recording) Both recordings won in several categories at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, including Best Female Artist. Tanya’s most recent project is the stunning video Tungajuk on which she collaborated with Jesse Zubot and Montreal filmmakers Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael. Tanya appears at Kings Place London on Thursday 5th November 2009 at 9.00pm as part of the London International Festival of Exploratory Music. Not to be missed!! www.lifem.org.uk www.kingsplace.co.uk
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And do not forget to have a look at the details for regular club nights: Boat-Ting – www.boat-ting.com
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Four, yes four new Jez Riley French releases this month – ‘….the bright work’ – hydrophone recordings:-
Jez’s work focuses on the exploration of detail via intuitive composition, extended field recording techniques and photography. Elements such as sonic architecture, audible silence and compositional arcs have evolved from his need as an artist to remain open to his emotive, intuitive response to situations and environments. Visit: http://jezrileyfrench.blogspot.com/
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Daniel Levin Quartet Live at Roulette – Daniel Levin (cel), Matt Moran (vib), Nate Wooley (t) & Peter Bitenc (b) Clean Feed Records CF 147
The Daniel Levin Quartet has already shown on prior recordings that a change of conventional instrumentation in a jazz combo is enough to explore an entirely different world of musical gesture, timbre, and expression. In the case of this latest release, Levin dispenses with his own convention of using song structures as the basis for improvisation. Instead, he gave trumpeter Nate Wooley, vibraphonist Matt Moran, bassist Peter Bitenc (and himself on violoncello) a set of words and concepts, and allowed the dialogue between the musicians to proceed in the most immediate fashion imaginable. You have to follow the individual movements in the large musical spectrum offered without expecting them to be in the usual place. You'll soon find that's the most interesting way to keep track of all the conversations established and the little games of tension the band creates. Everything moves, like in a Morton Feldman composition, with the difference that, here, there is the element of surprise provided by improvisation. Here is a music entirely of our time.
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‘On the Margins of Art. Creation and Political Engagement’
Museu D’art Contemporani De Barcelona Until 27th September 2009 Centre d'Estudis i Documentació, MACBA Plaça dels Angels, 1 08001 Barcelona Tel +34 93 412 08 10 Fax +34 93 412 46 02
On the Margins of Art is a new exhibition bringing together documents, editions and other materials from its collection. Curated by Guy Schraenen, this exhibition presents a broad overview of the various ways in which artists from the second half of the 20th century have placed their creative capacity at the service of political demands. The material chosen takes in magazines, books, posters, pamphlets, postcards and other printed forms, located somewhere halfway in the wide-ranging spectrum addressed by the purest form of art to the most direct political declaration. All the material stems from the combination of various degrees of artistic skill, visual impact and political intention, ingredients to which an enormously creative use of language is often added, which draws its inspiration, consciously or unconsciously, from the achievements of visual poetry. Some of these elements emerge from the reaction to a specific circumstance, as in the case of the posters produced by the anti-establishment movements related to May 1968; others, on the other hand, were spawned by more lasting organisations or movements and respond to various motives including gender demands – Guerrilla Girls, Barbara Kruger – or racial demands – Black Panther Party –, environmental concerns, class conflicts or countercultural movements such as the case of the Dutch Provo movement and the magazine of the same name published in the 1970s. Chronologically speaking, the selection of materials spans an exhibition of the surrealist tracts and documentation related to Situationist International to recent works produced around the turn of the 21st century. The exhibition features the artists Joseph Beuys, Mirtha Dermisache, Antonio Dias, Alfredo Jaar, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Víctor Mira, Miralda, Muntadas, Maurizio Nannuci, Joan Rabascall, Ben Vautier and Edgardo Antonio Vigo, and the movements Art in Ruins, Guerrilla Girls and Provo, among others. www.macba.cat Curator: Guy Schraenen Production: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
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