Friday 14th June | 7pm | £14 advance tickets

Musical collaborators for the past decade, Paul Jones and Stephen Black are together known as the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing Group Listening. But what does this actually sound like? Like this:

Following their two renegade reinterpretation records: Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol. 1 (2018) and Vol. 2 (2022), which re-shaped cult ambient classics by Robert Wyatt, Arthur Russell and Beverly Glenn-Copeland and more, Walks (2024) is their first album of completely original compositions.

Couple of vids from a previous album:

Get ready for the new album Walk’s description - there are ALOT of references in there but we have hyperlinked em so you can do your research if you want to!

Walks is influenced by the field recordings of Ernest Hood; the abstraction of Harold Budd; the saxophone of Sam Gendel; the “heightened naturalism” of a Martin Parr photograph; the clarity and site-specificity of Japanese ambient, environmental & new age music of the 80s and 90s, and, prominently, Robert Walser’s pseudo-biographical novella The Walk — an appreciation of the philosophical space gifted by walks to walkers.

This is how the artists have described their new music : An ode to the gently psychedelic potential of wandering around in some place, any place, every place: the places in one’s own mind, Walks invites you to listen and think; to slip through the fabric of time a little or a lot, depending on how long you’ve got. Over all, to paraphrase Walser, it invites you to glow and flower yourself in the glowing, flowering present.

“Exquisite neo-classical work” - Electronic Sound Review

“Supremely serene” - Uncut

“Hazy, bright and sleepy - a dreamtime soundscape” - Elizabeth Alker, BBC R3

“Supremely serene” - Uncut

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