4th May poster
April 24, 2012
Next Tubers 4th May NHAM Quartet & others
April 15, 2012
4 May
Nham Quartet (Tony Bevan/John Edwards/Jed Bishop/Michael Zerang)
“Brilliant stuff!” The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (U.K.)
“Spirited, challenging free improvisation. Do yourself a favour and check them out” Jason Bevins, Cadence (U.S.A.)
“Imaginative and very satisfying” The Wire (U.K.)
“Strongly recommended to fans of intelligent, freethinking musicmaking” Coda (Canada)
The NHAM Quartet began in May of 2000 when British Bass/Tenor saxophonist Tony Bevan went to Chicago for a series of gigs with American stars trombonist Jeb Bishop and percussionist Michael Zerang. Such was the success of this collaboration, a tour of England was organized for May 2001, adding John Edwards on double bass. During this tour the CD “NHAM” was recorded, and was released on Foghorn in 2002. The Quartet toured in the United States the following year, playing principally in University towns and often performing workshops for the students, for example in Ann Arbour, Bloomington Indiana and the University of Chicago. The current tour of the UK represents a 10 year reunion.
TONY BEVAN
Tony Bevan is an improvising virtuoso on Soprano and Tenor saxophones, but perhaps is best known for his work on the Bass saxophone, on which he is probably Britain’s only major modern performer (“the world’s greatest improvising Bass saxophonist” – Timeout). He is closely linked with the late Derek Bailey, with whom he appeared and recorded many times, as well as with Free Jazz legend Sunny Murray, who, along with Edwards, he has been playing with for more than a decade, releasing a number of award winning recordings and appearing in Antoine Prum’s award winning film “Sunny’s Time Now”. He recently curated with Prum a 3 day festival on British Improvised Music in Berlin, which will be released on film in late 2012, following more filming in the UK in early 2012 . His playing covers all bases from rock group Spiritualised (on whose new album he is a featured soloist) to Classical Avant-Garde composer Luc Ferrari, with the likes of Barre Phillips, Matthew Bourne, Joe Morris, Marc Ribot and Tony Buck of The Necks in between. He runs the Foghorn label.
JOHN EDWARDS
“John Edwards has imposed himself on the radical and improvised music scene, revealing himself to be among the most gifted musicians and contrabassists to emerge in the last few years. … Particularly notable is the way he succeeds in joining refinement and extreme technical agility with a very physical and energetic way of playing, demonstrating a capacity for synthesis which gives his sound an unmistakable character.” (Fabrizio Spera, programme notes.) Edwards has performed with all of England’s major improvisers, appears on many CDs on the Emanem label, and is a member of saxophone titan Evan Parker’s trio, with percussionist Mark Sanders.
MICHAEL ZERANG
Michael Zerang was born in Chicago, Illinois, and is a first-generation American of Assyrian decent. He has been a professional musician, composer, and producer since 1976, focusing extensively on improvised music, free jazz, contemporary composition, puppet theater, experimental theater, and international musical forms.
Michael has collaborated extensively with contemporary theater, dance, and other multidisciplinary forms and has received three Joseph Jefferson Awards for Original Music Composition in Theater in collaboration with Redmoon Theater, in 1996, 1998, and 2000.
As a percussionist and composer, Michael has over eighty titles in his discography and tours nationally and internationally to 33 countries since 1981, and works with and ever-widening pool of collaborators.
Michael founded and was the artistic director of the Link’s Hall Performance Series in Chicago from 1985-1989 where he produced over 300 concerts of jazz, traditional ethnic folk music, electronic music, and other forms of forward thinking music. Michael has been a Board Member of Links Hall Since 1989. He continued to produce concerts at Cafe Urbus Orbis from 1994-1996, and at his own space, The Candlestick Maker in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood, from 2001 – 2005.
Michael has taught as a guest artist at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in performance technique, sound design, and sound/music as it relates to puppetry; rhythmic analysis for dancers at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Northwestern University, and MoMing Dance and Arts Center; courses in Composer – Choreographer Collaborations at Northwestern University; music to children at The Jane Adams Hull House.
Michael currently tours and holds workshops in improvisational music and percussion technique, and teaches private lessons in rhythmic analysis, music composition, and percussion technique.
JEB BISHOP
Trombonist/improviser/composer Jeb Bishop has performed, toured and recorded with groups including the Vandermark Five, the Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet, Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls, Terminal Four, School Days, Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, The Engines, and his own Jeb Bishop Trio. He has been recognized in Down Beat Magazine’s International Critics’ Poll every year since 2001. Bishop appears on dozens of recordings as improviser, composer, and interpreter of music by other composers, and has performed in clubs and at festivals throughout North America and Europe. He has also led or participated in workshops for students at conservatories in Chicago, Ann Arbor (Michigan), Birmingham (England), Vancouver (Canada), and Tilburg (Netherlands).
Nham Quartet on Foghorn Records
Helmut Lemke
amazing works with very long strings. not to be missed. more here http://www.sound-art.de
“Since he started his journey into the world of sound more than 30 years ago, he investigated sounds that are around us, some are obvious, some are familiar, some have to be found… and he has performed and exhibited process based work responding to his investigations.
His endeavour has taken him to concert halls and outdoor markets, to Galleries and Museums and to the frozen seas off Greenland, to Function Rooms of Pubs and to International Festivals. He has presented his work all over the globe, collaborating with other Sound Artists and Musicians, with Dancers and Scientists, Visual Artists and Architects, Poets and Archaeologists, Performance
Artists and Wildlife Rangers.
Helmut Lemke is still listening.”
From The Noise Upstairs.
Bridget Hayden
cosmic post blues melt down http://www.notwavingordrowning.co.uk/
“This former Vibracathedral Orchestra member’s raw and snarling solo debut provides a welcome and somewhat frightening counterbalance to the current wave of ambient-minded solo guitarists. Obviously, there is no shortage of noisy guitar albums in the world, but Hayden’s aesthetic is a pretty striking and unique one. For one, she is very primitivist in her approach to both her equipment and her playing. For this album, she apparently used just two pedals, an out-of-tune guitar, and a four-track that someone had found on the street. If she was playing scales and chords, it is likely that the “out-of-tune guitar” part of the equation would get pretty uncomfortable and obnoxious, but she doesn’t do that: at her most gleefully feral, such as in “Thrash Momento” and “Silk Wheels,” she strips away everything conventionally “musical” to leave just grimy, obsessively repeating moans and howls.”
Foxy Digitalis
@ St. Margarets Church,
Whalley Road/Rufford Road,
Manchester
M16 8AE
£5/£4
on facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/387239897953529/
next saturday! going to be amazing
Tubers gigs for november
November 12, 2011
Ludo Mich is a Belgian Fluxus artist, performer and filmmaker, active since the 1960s. Ultra Eczema helmer Dennis Tyfus was instrumental in bringing Ludo to the attention of a younger generation after he saw Ludo’s pansexual aktionist emetic films from the 60s and 70s – nudist adaptations of science fiction and Greek myths. In 2005 Ultra Eczema released an lp cut from the soundtracks of these experimental films which featured Da……daist poetry, savage cries and screams, homemade instruments and junk sound. Through this fresh wave of exposure, recent years have seen Ludo Mich collaborating with, amongst others, Dylan Nyoukis, Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer and Wolf Eyes.
Harappian Night Recordings is the solo moniker of Hunter Gracchus member Syed Kamran Ali. Since releasing his critically acclaimed debut album, The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele, on Bo Weavil early in 2009 (voted 11th in The Wire magazine’s end of year poll) Ali has produced a slew of increasingly deranged albums on various microlabels across Europe. These releases have seen him move far beyond ‘musical forgeries from an imagined east’ into ambivalent and disturbed psychic territories that have parodied, mutated and ripped apart singular fourth world cosmopolitanisms in a disjunctured maelstrom of frenetic, conflicting and distorted energies. This will be Ali’s debut performance as Harappian Night Recordings in the UK.
Pascal Nichols is one half of improvising duo Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides, who were recently justly described by a conspicuous music critic as the best live band active in the UK right now. Although, as a percussionist, Nichols has collaborated with a number of free improv luminaries it would be wrong to judge him by the criteria of earlier generations. Although technically proficient, the really intriguing qualities of Nichols lie in his insatiable interest in sound and his endless and authentic pursuit of the elusive wild mercury of genuinely collaborative improvisation, undistracted by the idiomatic flippancies and rodomontade of much free improv.
+ Akke Phallus Duo: A long overdue and much anticipated collaboration between Ben Morris of Chora and Jon Marshall of The Hunter Gracchus. Postally sharing raw voice, poached acousmatic sound & brut instrumental ingredients, shitting on Eno’s Fourth World confluence of privilege, they navigate modes of avant-experimentation open to the freedom & potential of this new duo dynamic. Wheezing & stuttering non-musics through broken mics and burst bellowed reeds, they integrate the spectres of position, loss, resistance and the fruits of free-hybridity from the comfort and confusions of the First World.
doors 8pm, first act 8.30 and PROMPT 10.30pm finish
£5 (£4 concessions)
There will be Kelly’s magic punch, beers, snacks and souvenirs as always
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=180442542031258
DEAS & DENTON
cosmic guitar manipulation from two of Sheffield’s finest plus visual accompaniment. LP out now on Present Time Exercises.
http://soundcloud.com/camdeas/deas-denton-inferno-side-b
http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=5227
BIRCHALL/CHEETHAM DUO
highly specialised collapsing of rock elements breeding a delicious free rock/drone/noise mix
http://soundcloud.com/birchallcheethamduo
SOUNDING
one half of Sheffield Forest Creature
http://soundcloud.com/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=sounding
£5 waged/£4 unwaged 8pm
Bevan/Janek/Looney & more 5th Nov
October 4, 2011
Next Tubers gig, see details here on facebook and Tubers site here.
Saturday 5th November
TONY BEVAN (UK)/SCOTT LOONEY (US)/KLAUS JANEK(IT)
An intercontinental meeting of improvisers!
Scott Looney has forged a signature style using the inside and outside of the piano, plucking strings, using metal implements and other quick preparations, in combination to playing the piano normally. He has also developed a flexible, expressive voice with electronics using Max/MSP which is as effective as his many piano textures are…
www.scottrlooney.com/
Klaus Janek studied classical doublebass with M. Muraro, Venice and in workshops with D.Holland, P.Kowald. L.Butch Morris, Jaribu Shahid.
He explores avantgarde music and works on sound research on the doublebass. Gets involved in the improvised music scene and lots of traditional and electronic music, published CD (FMP, edel classics, Minor Music, Solponticello, Ubiquity and others), in between three solo doublebass CDs. Composes music for tv, dancetheatre and a houseopera, sound for Meta Design, Berlin. Art direction of various concertseries in Italy and Germany. Concert and festival appearances in EU, USA, Russia, Israel, Canada and Japan.
www.klaus-janek.de /
Tony Bevan is an Oxford based player of bass, tenor & soprano saxophones. He has been involved with the LMC and Oxford Improvisers and performed with many of his contemporaries on the UK free improv scene: Phil Minton, Steve Beresford, John Russell, Pat Thomas, Steve Noble and many others.
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mbevan.html
INVISIBLE HAND
free jazz tinged improvising from 4 great musicians all based in the North West
Stephen Grew: Piano
http://stephengrew.wordpress.com/
Phillip Marks: Percussion
http://www.myspace.com/barkcontraption
Matt Robinson: Clarinent
http://mattrobinsonjazz.weebly.com/
Maxwell Sterling: Double bass
http://www.myspace.com/maxwellsterling
TAKAHASHIS SHELLFISH CONCERN
combines abstract expressionist visual art with experimental electronic-acoustic music to accentuate the similarities of both during improvised exchanges. Angela paints onto a contact miked canvas as Rod and Anton manipulate the sound generated.
http://www.takahashisshellfishconcern.com/
@ St, Margaret’s Church,
Rufford Rd/Whalley Rd,
Whalley Range,
Manchester,
M16 9EA
8pm doors £5 waged/£4 unwaged
Gigs in July
July 1, 2011
MATHILDE is a Leeds based collective with experience both nationally and internationally. All are passionate about introducing improvisation to a wider audience and are engaged in various other collectives and organisations.
Seth Bennett (UK) Double bass and trombone
Marie Andersen (Denmark), Dance and aerial theatre
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Oliver Dover (UK) Saxophone, bass clarinet, trumpophone
Rachel Dean (UK) Dance artist and singer
Daliah Toure (Austria/Guinea) Dance and visual artist
http://mathildedance.blogspot.com/
PADDY STEER
This what BBC introducing have to say about Paddy…
“Ever wondered what the workings of a magical musical mind actually sound like in the raw, undisturbed by the mundanity of conventional song structure and want of chart positions?
If you have, then Paddy Steer is the man for you. He’s made a career out of living in the leftfield of music, offering up his considerable talents on everything from jazz drumming to Hawaiian guitar to the likes of Homelife and Toolshed, and happily bringing a smile to the faces of anyone who came across his work.”
http://www.myspace.com/paddysteer
doors 8pm £5 waged/£4 unwaged
26th March
March 7, 2011
slight update of flyer for those who struggle to read 10pt type unaided!
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Two gigs for February
January 18, 2011
A couple of gigs coming up via our newly named “Tubers Music” collective…
Friday 4th February
PRIMATE ARENA
Tel Aviv-based freeform happening transplanted into Manchester for one night only. Expect sets from hosts Eran Sachs and Alex Drool as well as collaborations with local improvisers. Loads of info here on the Cafe Oto website.
“PRIMATE ARENA is Israel’s first consistent platform for a wide palette of experimental and improvised music. Hosted by Eran Sachs and Alex DROOL, PRIMATE ARENA is a bi-weekly freeform happening for experimental & out muzak events (mostly in Tel Aviv), dedicated to Psych, EAI, Noise, Speech/Sonic/Concrete Poetry, Avant Rock, post millennial obscurities, pre millennial obscurities, the history of 20th century experimental music & other adventurous ventures. Over the past three years they have created a platform – central to Tel Aviv’s now vibrant, thriving scene – that has nurtured a community of adventurous local musicians including Maya Dunietz and Yoni Silver and hosted visiting internationals such as Adam Bohman, , Jérôme Noetinger, Arnaud Rivière, Ignatz Schick, Daniel Padden, Bob Ostertag and many others. Primate Arena encompasses a regular performance series a number of ensembles and a radio programme.”
ACRID LACATATIONS
Total Vermin Tapes boss S.Arnot and anthropological lung explorer S.Fitzpatrick join sonic forces. Expect tonal sketches from the subterranean to the extra terrestrial.
@ St. Margaret’s Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8AE.
8.30pm Start
£5/4 unwaged
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Friday 18th February
HOBO SONN
“a musty sci-fi soundtrack feeling the shavings from a wheezing Akai Dirtbox dissolve in acid rain, bring a raincoat…”
Dylan Nyoukis
more here.
DUNCAN HARRISON
Brighton based mix of ecstatic tones, outer body experiences and zoned out noises. Hear here.
PADDY STEER/RICHARD HARRISON/PASCAL NICHOLS
Three of Manchester’s finest musicians (Homelife, Spaceheads, Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides) explore the inner resonant cavity of St. Margaret’s church with a variety of big drums.
@ St. Margaret’s Church, Rufford Road, Whalley Range, Manchester M16 8AE.
8.30pm Start
£5/4 unwaged
Further Future:
Saturday 26th March
St. Margarets Church,
Whalley Range,
Manchester
Aural Detritus UK Tour 2011
Collaborative groupings of:
Simon Whetham (laptop, field recordings), Daniel Jones (turntable, contact mics) and Paul Khimasia Morgan (objects, abrasion).
Simon Whetham is a field recordist operating out of Bristol, UK. He has a prolific release schedule with recent releases on labels including Entr’acte, Con-V, Trente Oiseaux, and Gruenrekorder. Throughout May 2009 Simon was Artist In residence at the Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia. Simon also curates the Active Crossover sound art exhibition. http://simonwhetham.co.uk/
Daniel Jones is an improviser who has a recent release on Cathnor, and on Another Timbre as part of Loris. In 2010,both he and Paul performed in Brighton with Ryu Hankil and Seijiro Murayama.http://www.cathnor.com/Cathnor_New_CV007.html
Paul Khimasia Morgan is an improviser whose recent collaboration with Simon Whetham was released on the Con-V label. Paul promotes irregular concerts of improvised music in Brighton under the aural detritus concert series banner.http://www.auraldetritus.blogspot.com/ http://www.con-v.org/cnvr22.html
also set from Stephen Grew/Phil Marks Quartet tbc
