Tongue Theory Festival in Bristol UK, January 11-12

Tongue Theory

Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th January 2020

Day One info (evening) – hdfst.uk/E59348
Day Two info (afternoon) – hdfst.uk/E59350
Day Two info (evening) – hdfst.uk/E59351

Tongue Theory – Day 1
A 2-day multi-venue festival of Free Improvisation, Noise, Free Jazz & other avant-gardery
featuring
Bristol Unit / Kar Pouzi / Harpoon / Cooke & Lash duo
Doors 7.30
Bristol Unit
Crack unit of Bristol improvisers. A cap doffed to Cecil Taylor. Expect Unit Strictures & Unfit Structures.
Matthew Grigg, Tina Hitchens, Mark Langford, Dominic Lash, Yvonna Magda, Roger Skerman
Kar Pouzi
A solo sobriquet of Helen Papaioannou – saxophones & synthesisers square off. A hand held in watermelon sugar.
Harpoon
Improvised drum machine / effects pedal throw – down. Tina Hitchens, Aaron Ward
Dominic Lash & Seth Cooke duo

Tongue Theory – Day 2 (afternoon)
A 2-day multi venue festival of Free Improvisation, Noise, Free Jazz & other avant-gardery
featuring
Hokkett / Helson’s Angels / Konik
Doors 2.00
Hokkett
Skronky / wonky riffs, snippets of melodies and hints of harmonies, woven together through improvisation. Tina Hitchens, Yvonna Magda, Helen Papaioannou
Helsons Angels
Caitlin Alais Callahan, Matthew Grigg, Bob Helson, Rebecca Sneddon
Konik
This troika bring word that the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Mark Langford, Dominic Lash, Roger Telford

Tongue Theory – Day 2 (Evening Session – Basement)
A 2-day multi venue festival of Free Improvisation, Noise, Free Jazz & other avant-gardery
featuring
Foster / Grigg / Hill / Lash / Papaioannou – Joseph Kelly – Euan Metz – Viridian Ensemble
Doors 7.30
Foster / Grigg / Hill / Lash / Papaioannou
5 headed hydra of free thinkers.
Robin Foster, Matthew Grigg, Tim Hill, Dominic Lash, Helen Papaioannou
Joseph Kelly
Double bass basement abasement from punk jazz polymath. Indivisible & Indomitable.
Euan Metz
Lost in the tall grass of sonic strangeness from 50% of Invisible Man. 90% audible
Viridian Ensemble
Improvisation of both sound and image produce a dialogic blend of textural depths.