Another night of excellent improvised music from Japanese pianist Yoko Miura as part of her European tour 2026. She will improvise in two trios: with Viv Corringham (vocalist) and Lawrence Casserley (electronics, voice and handmade instruments), and with Gus Garside (double bass) and James Parsons (drums and percussion).
More about all these top class players and all their accolades below:
Yoko Miura is a pianist currently living in Fukuoka, Japan. Born in Tokyo, she started studying classical piano from the age of 5 and later became interested in jazz and improvised music. She says of her musical approach: “I am trying to make a kind of different universes interweaving and exchanging with different process, values and ways, with people, not only the musicians but also painters and dancers”
Viv Corringham is a US based British vocalist and sound artist, who has been described as “a vocalist of stunning virtuosity” (Louise Gray, The Wire). She makes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations. Her practice explores relations between voice, place and walking, responding with sung improvisations to both natural and urban soundscapes.
Lawrence Casserley has performed live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways for more than fifty years. Since 1995 he has worked with many leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. He also uses voice, percussion, home-made instruments and found objects as separate sound sources or inputs for his self-designed Signal Processing Instrument.
Gus Garside is a double bass player focusing these days on improvised and contemporary music.He has played with many notable musicians including Yoko Miura, Laura Cole, Anton and Johnny Hunter, Marcello Magliocchi, Marcio Mattos, Lol Coxhill, John Russell and Sylvia Hallett (with whom he was a member of the string trio Arc for 37 years until the passing of their beloved cellist Danny Kingshill).
James Parsons is one of the most creative and sensitive drummers in the south, we think he is the bees knees and are always excited to know he will be playing. He is part of improvising groups: Bolide, In Threads, Fault Thrower, God’s Teeth and many more, inbetween his brilliant comic making and running comics workshops far and wide.