Thursday 22nd June | 7pm | £12.50 advance tickets / Concessions & Unwaged £7
A really exciting evening of eclectic improvised /composed live musics from around the globe!
Michael Thieke and Luigi Marino ( Italy / UK)
Keeping the music completely open or introducing collectively composed elements, the dialogue between Michael Thieke and Luigi Marino stems from improvisation and the most hidden details of sound: subtle metal resonances, breath before it turns into a note inside a clarinet, electronic sounds generated by a 9v battery and projected by the vibrations of the instruments themselves. Sounds barely audible emerge from the background to take a predominant role, depicting abstract suspended landscapes, or turning into simple melodies and rhythms. Quietly, nothing is out of reach.The duo Thieke/Marino started in Berlin in 2016, and they have since presented their music across the entire Europe. Their first release was published in 2022 on Emergent Idioms.
“a weird and hallucinogenic, listening experience”
Astroturf Noise (US)
Astroturf Noise exists at the intersection of free improvisation, effects-heavy noise music, and American roots music. Since forming in Brooklyn, NY in 2017, the trio of Sam Day Harmet (mandolin/electronics), Sana Nagano (violin/effects), and Zach Swanson (upright bass) has brought their "fire music served up in a surrealist honky-tonk" to numerous US experimental music spaces.
Their second album for 577 Records, Blazing/Freezing, written and recorded over the pandemic, reflects the anxiety of our moment: blazing and freezing from the effects of climate change, the anger of our chaotic political environment, the fear of whatever new insanity will come next. But it also reflects an unmistakable joy and playfulness throughout, an excitement for new sounds and musical collaboration. As hyphenated Americans (Jewish-American, Japanese-American, Mexican-American respectively), Astroturf Noise look to American music with mischievous instincts for deconstruction as they try to make sense of a deeply strange America.
“...creating exciting new forms on which to ride the wild wave of chaos.”
Two Sided Shape
A brand new duo from guitarist Lee Westwood (Rose Hill Records, Moulettes, Dizraeli & The Small Gods) and drummer Jools Owen (Bear's Den, Willy Mason) brings you polyrhythmic grooves, joyous melodies, brutal timbres and ceaseless energy in a stripped back, pedal-fuelled, thundering rollercoaster of dynamics and colour. Unfasten your seatbelts and prepare to be bathed in sounds sophisticated and primordial.