Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Bridget Walsh – Voice / Piano
Isobella Burnham – Bass Guitar / Voice
Rosie Turton – Trombone / Modular Synths
Momoko Gill – Drums / Voice
Jan Halen – Violin
+ Rosie Frater-Taylor – Guitar / Voice
About
Conduit is an exploration of connection. How the elements intersect with our lives in both nourishing and harrowing ways, and how we intersect within the world with the same dichotomy. Through a programme of composed, improvised and open-form works, Conduit brings together five femme artists from across the London jazz-zeitgeist. Using music, meditation, soundscapes, synthesis, loops and samples, Bridget Walsh, Rosie Turton, Isobella Burnham, Momoko Gill and Jan Halen will create and co-regulate in real time, exploring everything from wildfires to revolution, misogyny to mutual-aid, lullabies to Land Back. This performance also includes a solo set from London-based artist, Rosie Frater-Taylor.
Isobella Burnham @isobella.burnham
Isobella Burnham is a London-based, Barbadian-grown bassist, vocalist and composer. She grew up in Barbados where she studied music at the local college. Isobella moved back to London in 2018 and has been a session bassist for Mabel, Tom Misch, Jorja Smith, Steam Down, Sampa The Great and Connie Constance, playing stages across Europe, Africa and Asia. In 2021, she released her solo debut EP Dancin Garuda and has gone on to play Love Supreme, We Out Here, Swanage jazz and a sold-out Ronnie Scott’s.
Momoko Gill @momokogill
Momoko Gill (aka MettaShiba) is a London-based composer/producer/songwriter/vocalist whose primary instruments are drums and voice. She grew up between Japan, the US and UK and has a mixed (Japanese/British/German) heritage. As a musician, Momoko works with some of the most boundary-pushing UK artists including Alabaster DePlume, Matthew Herbert, Coby Sey and Tirzah and is frequently performing in jazz-adjacent, improvisational, conceptual and groove-focused projects. She composes and produces for her duo project with poet/rapper Nadeem Din-Gabisi, An Alien Called Harmony, whose debut EP was released by Total Refreshment Centre and New Soil in May 2024. Momoko plans to release a solo LP in 2025 and collaborative works with Matthew Herbert.
Rosie Turton @rosie.turton
Cited by The Guardian as ‘One To Watch’ and nominated for Jazz FM’s ‘Breakthrough Act of the Year’, trombonist, composer and producer Rosie Turton continues her rise since releasing her debut ‘Rosie’s 5ive’, with Jazz Re:freshed. Rosie’s music tells the tales of meditative soundscapes and improvisations, blurring the lines between the acoustic and electronic universes. In 2023 Rosie released ode-to-nature ‘Wandering, Wondering’, a 3-track Bandcamp only EP all produced, mixed and mastered by Rosie, and hailed by Bandcamp as ‘The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, August 2023’. Described by The Guardian as “A leading light on London’s new jazz scene”, Rosie also creates and performs under the modular synth alias Nomieye.
Jan Halen @janhalenloops
Violinist, Jan Halen is a versatile performer of classical, jazz and popular/electronic music, in the UK and Europe. A composer, arranger and producer of string solo and ensembles, Jan studied for violin performance at the Royal Northern College of Music, followed by a masters degree in Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Having worked as a performer, composer, recording artist and educator for 20 years, Jan collaborates in all flavours of music.
Bridget Walsh @lovefrombridget / @1032music.com
With an international tour résumé spanning everything from Glastonbury’s Hell Stage to New Zealand’s National Jazz Festival, Bridget Walsh is an accomplished, compassionate and dynamic artist, hellbent on leaving the world better than she found it. A vocalist, keys player, songwriter, composer and producer, Bridget has writing credits with over 25 million streams on Spotify and a Masters Degree in Jazz on the way from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Growing up in Aotearoa but now based in South London, Bridget is a session artist, musical director, curator and DJ, and bandleader of London future-soul group 10:32, with Lyle Barton, Radovan Brtko and Isobella Burnham.
Rosie Frater-Taylor @rosiefratertaylor
One of the most electrifying forces in contemporary British jazz, Rosie Frater-Taylor is a virtuoso guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of remarkable emotional depth. In equal parts a dedicated student of jazz guitar and admirer of iconic singer-songwriters, she seamlessly weaves rock, alt-pop, neo-soul, new-school jazz, and folk into her singular sound.