Wednesday 23rd November | 8pm | £7 / £5 members

Yoko Miura, Gus Garside & Alice Eldridge

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.

“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”.

She has performed and recorded with many players including Gianni Mimmo John Russell, Lawrence Casserley,  Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Mia Zabelka, Stefan Keune Charlie Collins, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra and many more.

Gus Garside 
Concentrating these days on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music, double bassist Gus Garside plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on three highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis and a duo album with the French saxophone player Hervé Perez released on the New York 577 label in 2021.

He has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is making a welcome return to working with dance building a project with Mim King.

He was a founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective.

Alice Eldridge
Alice is a cellist and researcher, working at the intersections of music, ecology and technology. Current projects include self-resonating feedback instruments and learning to listen to ecosystems.

John Edwards, Kjetil Møstar & Dan Erik Knedal

A great trio that sees one of the world’s most consistently compelling bass players, John Edwards, pitted alongside two of the most in-demand players in the Norwegian improv scene in the form of saxophonist / clarinetist / composer Kjetil Møster, and Oslo-based drummer Dag Erik Knedal Andersen.

Kjetil Møster‘s approach sits at the interface between electronic based rock, improv and jazz, and together with Maja S.K. Ratkje, Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug, he started the «All Ears» festival in 2002. Perhaps best known for his “hyperactive-take-no-prisoners” approach to drumming, Dag Erik Knedal Andersen has been an ubiquitous musician on the Norwegian improvised music scene over the last couple of years, as well as touring all over Europe with groups such as SAKA and AKODE.

Plus The Wildcard Quartet