From London’s Vortex:
Thur 21 | 8.30pm
Parker, Russell, Edwards
Evan Parker‘s monthly free improvisation residency with bassist John Edwards and guitarist John Russell.
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Sun 24 | 8.30pm
Nate Wooley, John Edwards & Mark Sanders
For 20 years Mark Sanders (drums) and John Edwards (bass) have been a leading ryhthm section, appearing live internationally and on cds with a/o Evan Parker, Agusti Fernandez and Veryan Weston. A mutual admiration has brought these three great players together for the first time.
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Mon 25 | Early show 8.30 10.15pm
The early show starts at 8.30pm with a half hour set from Ruby Colley. Zoe’s set starts at 9.15pm.
A one-woman orchestra, Zoë Keating plays cello and uses a foot-controlled laptop to record layer on layer intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë’s grassroots, label-less approach, has garnered her much public attention and press. She has been profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered and awarded a performing arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation and has spent much of 2011 touring across North America in support of her latest album, ‘Into the Trees’. She has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose and Paolo Nutini.
Ruby Colley
Performing her music alone, with an electric violin and a series of pedals, Ruby Colley creates instrumental soundscapes that are far beyond the realm of traditional playing, with the complex web of sound more akin to an electric orchestra. She draws upon many different styles such as folk, jazz and classical and her debut album ‘Murmurations’ presents a strong selection of all of these.
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Tue 26 | 8.30pm
Aisha Orazbayeva
‘Outside’ – the album live
Aisha Orazbayeva (violin/voice), Matthew Schellhorn (piano) and Peter Zinovieff (computer) play music by Sciarrino, Ravel, Zinovieff-Orazbayeva, Salvador Lachenmann-Orazbayeva. Orazbayeva and her album ‘Outside’ have been reviewed as “a rich mix of uncompromising contemporary music, electronics, even singing“ (The Strad), and as “inventive textures you could use to resurface half of the UK’s motorways… superb” (The Sound Projector).…………………………………………
Wed 27 | 8.30pm
Penny Rimbaud‘s Last Amendment
presents ‘Reason Veils the Absurd’
Following five year’s seclusion in the metaphorical woodshed, Penny Rimbaud returns to the Vortex to begin a quarterly residency feeling ‘none the wiser and all the better for it’. Expect a heady mix of musings, magnificence, nonsense, impro, outpro, fusion, confusion, poetry and jazz. Standing (and oftimes falling) at the forefront of the neo-romantic avant-garde, Rimbaud is joined this evening by co-conspirators Eve Libertine (vox), Charles Webber (signal generators), Louise Elliott (sax’n’flute), Kate Shortt (cello), Jennifer Maidman (bass), Gene Calderazzo (drums) and Gee Vaucher (visuals).…………………………………………
Thur 28 | 8.30pm
World Sanguine Report
Part demonic vaudeville, part psychotic big band, vocalist/guitarist Andrew Plummer revels and writhes in the macabre as he heads his World Sanguine Report through visceral tales from the dark side of life, love and death. Propelled by demented carny rhythms, Plummer’s bruised, gruff vocals and darkly-enthralling lyrics are enveloped in a tide of swirling tones and textures, with the threat of breaking into waves of cacophany.
Glockenspiel
Glockenspiel – Adrian Dollemore (el guitar) and Steve d’Enton (drum kit). – are hypnotic and entrancing and manage to be so with a ‘less is more’ aesthetic. Intensely meditative and ambient textures build swirling melodies that orbit your head until you finally give in to the sonic splendor. Rich emotional depths, adding so much contrast it’s heartbreaking, highlight the more insular drones.
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