Friday 4 April 2025, 7.30pm
Maher Shalal Hash Baz – the legendary Japanese ensemble lead by musical polymath, anarchist, filmmaker and ceramicist Tori Kudo – celebrate 40 years as a group with this rare live performance; their first in the UK in over 15 years. Formed with his wife Reiko Kudo they have produced innumerable albums, including a series of solo-offshoot projects. You can find their music on the likes of The Pastels’ Geographic, P.S.F. Records, K Records and more.
Tori Kudo has resisted defining the sound of his band, although in an interview with Tim Footman in Careless Talk Costs Lives magazine (August 2002) he declared: “I am punk.” Psychedelic folk, pop, new york punk and free jazz influences permeate their sound, with guest musicians plucked from both friends of the band and audience members. In many ways, Kudo’s approach to music is one of controlled chaos, stemming from his radical anarchist roots. Across his work, he embraces error as an inescapable result of human nature. As he aptly writes in the liner-notes of From a Summer to Another Summer: “Error in performance dominates MSHB cassette which is like our imperfect life.”
Danielle Price is a UK/Oslo based performer, improviser and composer whose work explores a range of creative outlets, mainly using tuba and voice. She enjoys a versatile career involving her own projects as well working alongside the likes of The Night With…, Blue Boar, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, New Antonine Brass, Ashley Paul, Ali Affleck, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Oxbow, Ntshuks Bonga, Red Note Ensemble, Laura Jurd and Martin Green. She is one half of tuba duo Dopey Monkey with Martin Lee Thomson. Together they are Chamber Music Scotland Ensemble in Residence 2022-2024, Denis Wick Associated Artists and current Britten Pears Young Artists alongside Swedish percussionist Adrian Ortman. Danielle regularly collaborates with Bill Wells, as the Sensory Illusions (Karaoke Kalk) and the Viaduct Tuba Trio (Bison Records). Most recently, she has ventured further into composition through improvisation with the release of her debut solo EP “After the Allotments” (OTOROKU 2022).
“Danielle Price outstanding on tuba - quite an amazing technique.” – Bebop Spoken Here
‘Danielle is one of the best musicians I’ve ever worked with. She’s extremely versatile, from playing in trad jazz bands or with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, to playing with the likes of Ashley Paul, Mats Gustaffson and Ntshuks Bonga.” – Bill Wells
“Danielle Price is a magician-musician, her dexterity, courage and playfulness on the tuba is breath-taking.” – Aby Vulliamy
Linus Vandewolken plays modern outsider folk compositions on a forgotten instrument: the HOMMEL. On tour for the first time in the UK.
