Monday 14 July 2025, 7.30pm
The duo of MICHAEL FLOWER (Vibracathedral Orchestra) and CHRIS CORSANO (Bill Orcutt, Rangda, Mette Rasmussen, et.al.) formed back in 2005. In the years since their debut album The Radiant Mirror (Textile, 2007), they have toured and recorded frequently, issuing forth a stream of endlessly mutating free sound, a unique mind-merge between Corsano’s drums and Flower’s amplified Japan Banjo (also known as a Shahi Baaja, a type of electric Indian zither with both fretted/keyed and drone strings). Flower cuts a highly original line, playing neither “leads” nor making drone-music, while Corsano also shifts from foreground explosions to background comping in a constant push-pull between the two players that results in an ecstatic lift-off of the highest order with seamless shifts between tumultuous intensity and blissed-out serenity.
Tara Cunningham is a guitarist and composer whose work focusses on both improvisation, and pushing the textural boundaries of her instrument. Ongoing projects include; duo with bassist Caius Williams and acid-jazz group Red Snapper. She has also recently recorded part of Jack Cooper’s Modern Nature for their fourth studio album, as well as currently working with drummer Seb Rochford on his latest project for 6 guitars.
