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THURSDAY 2nd April 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets :
£7 / £5 concs (Tickets on the door only)
Two exciting new improvising trios perform live for the first time, plus the mesmeric songs of Otto Fischer.
Dominic Lash (double bass), Paul May (percussion) and John Russell (guitar) between them span a wide range of experiences and approaches to improvised music. Russell is quite simply one of the foremost guitar players anywhere, whose reinvention of the instrument has attracted a huge range of collaborators including Evan Parker, John Butcher, Stefan Keune, Phil Minton and Roger Turner. He also tirelessly organises one of London's longest running free improvisation clubs, Mopomoso. May is an enormously resourceful and inventive percussionist, combining a subtle and delicate feel for time that has seen him tour Europe and perform at London venues such as Ronnie Scotts with an astonishing investigative sensibility that finds him attacking his drums with piano strings, files and other objects. He and Lash are regular collaborators, notably in the trio Kindness May Lash with reeds player Sandy Kindness and Barkingside (with pianist Alexander Hawkins and clarinettist Alex Ward). Together with John Russell they will present a version of the guitar/bass/drums trio that not only isn't based on jazz, but won't have a fuzzbox in sight either!
Otto Fischer (voice, guitar, piano) is another experienced improviser but who recently has turned his attention to songs. A CD of this work was one of the last recordings released by the Incus label before founder Derek Bailey's death. Delicate but oblique, haunting but angular, Fischer's songs don't sound quite like anyone else and recently won over New York audiences. Don't miss this all-too-rare chance to hear him perform in London.
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