We are very happy to welcome back Southcoast DonArden anexcellent Hastings promoter and music journalist Ben Thompson to put on his second event here in Brighton. He is responsible for putting on a lot of the raddest shows in Hastings as well as hosting The London Ear show on Resonance FM for the last 20 years.
SCATTERFON
Scatterfon are a deft and captivating improvisational trio pitched somewhere between Virginia Astley and Cream.
Three established composers – BAFTA-nominated soundtrack artist Hutch Demouilpied, Monument Valley 3 sound designer Lucie Treacher and mercurial songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Otti Albietz – committing themselves fully to the moment, Scatterfon’s first gig was closing the show at this year’s Two Ship Festival of Improvised Music in Hastings, where they followed a host of free music luminaries, including Maggie Nicols and David Toop, by taking the crowd to places they had never been before. This will be their second show.
GEOFF HEARN
Safehouse co-architect Geoff Hearn – (for those who don’t know Safehouse is one of the longest standing open improv sessions in the South) Born in London England lived in Liverpool via South Africa before settling in Brighton. He has been playing tenor & soprano saxophones and flute for many years in a wide range of genre’s; blues, ‘jazz’, Afro/Latin jazz, rock, world and improvised music, and meditative music from around the globe. For the last 25 years he has been playing shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and also Native American flutes in a deep and meditative journey of self discovery.Based in the south of England, Hearn is one of Britain’s most creatively vibrant musicians on the music scene today, he is seriously overlooked and in the past has led many inspired bands including, Hoboko, Kasanga, Ten Men, Hipnosis, Up Down And Strange, Amigos, Planet Earth Ensemble, Jump Street, Tetragon, Steam, Torque, Organ-ics, and Akima where he collaborated with a troupe of African Yoruba ‘bata’ drum masters and has played with American jazz singer Joe Lee Wilson, Vibraphonist Johnny Lytle and r’n’b legend Tommy Brown.
“To hear him play is to be taken on a journey toward the very essence of music making and into a magical place.” Professor Michael Tucker – Jazz Journal
EFFECTIVE WORD ORDER
Effective Word Order were described in the following glowing terms in John Robb’s Louder Than War review of their first gig at 2023’s Sonics all-dayer: “Rammellzee-inspired robot prankster whose amazing performance somehow bridges the gap between Glenn Branca and Slipknot”. Since then they have inscribed a fierce arc across the south coast experimental music firmament, playing with like-minded artists from Beau Flies to Einsturzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke. November 27th will mark their Brighton debut.