Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
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About
Sothiac are a music duo based in London. Formed in Berlin in ‘15 with vocalist and sound artist Pat Moonchy and guitarist Lucky Liguori, they produced four albums including two with saxophonist Paul Jolly on 33Jazz Extreme Records. Recently the group took the opportunity to add percussionist Terry Day to the line-up and for this performance, they will be joined on stage by Paul Jolly & Sylvia Hallett.
Pat Moonchy vocalist/musician/producer and ancient Latin singer songwriter with significant vocal range whose works are well worth exploring for any listener seriously interested in experimental music as well as underground music, sound art, as a part of her sound research also realised by Modular Station.
In 2015, founded the current project Sothiac which has been finalist for the Festival Musica Diversa Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos, in Cento, IT. Then moved in Berlin scored the release of two albums (Sothis and Erebia Christi) touring EU, Japan with 16 gigs and across China by train from north to Hong Kong, including a performance in the Manchurian capital Harbin, the first exhibition there of an European act!
Lucio Liguori: aka “Lucky” is a guitarist composer, specialized in the research of experimental sound, introduced to music by hereditary propensity as a child of art.
From ‘94, he organized alternative events/concerts for the Moonshine pub in Milan which he managed with Moonchy for twenty years contributing and spreading the voices of the underground collaborates with numerous international musicians from different backgrounds.
In 2015 he moved to Berlin where he formed the project Sothiac with the singer/musician Pat Moonchy playing around the world going in Japan and on route through the whole China. In early 2017 joined the Carlos Ugueto Ensemble, a cultural project turned to make known claves from Uruguay candombe and salsa from Venezuela through the improv-free jazz.
In summer of 2017 moved to London starting a new collaboration with the producer and sax and bass clarinettist Paul Jolly.
Sylvia Hallett: studied music at Dartington, and then spent two years studying composition with Max Deutsch in Paris. She now works as both composer and improviser. She has played in many international festivals since the late 1970s, having worked with several well-known and respected musicians, including David Toop, Alasdair Roberts, Evan Parker, Anna Homler, the late Lol Coxhill, Maggie Nicols, Phil Minton. Groups include Accordions Go Crazy, LaXula, British Summer Time Ends, Arc,The London Improvisers Orchestra, The London Hardingfelelag and The Heliocentrics. She also performs solo, (eg. in Vigne Museum, Rosazzo, Italy 2015), and in duo with Chris Dowding (Sylvia & I).
Paul Jolly: After meeting the pianist and composer Mel Davis, a teacher at his school in 1962, Paul seriously began to explore jazz and improvised music. In 1969 he joined the People Band, an improvising group formed by Davis and the percussionist Terry Day. This association still lasts and it has impacted on all of his approach to creativity.
Paul has performed in a wide variety of music projects – including two years as Musical Director for the Intriplicate Mime Company, a member of the People Band and People Show, major European tours with the People Band, Big Chico, Mummy and Loverly – an improvising group featuring the singer Maggie Nicols. He also worked with many progressive rock groups including the cult 70’s band Sweet Slag, that opened for groups such as Black Sabbath and toured the UK as a support band for Eddie Grant and the Equals as well as appearing at iconic venues like the 100 Club and the Marquee.
Terry Day: Multi-instrumentalist, Improvisation Pioneer, Song Writer, Tune-Smith, Lyricist, Poet, Painter, Conductor. Began improvising on the drums in a drum duet with his brother Pat in 1955, and in 1960 formed an improvising trio of piano, bass & drums. Russell Hardy (piano) later became music composer in Ian Dury’s Kilburn & the Highroads.
He is an early 60’s First Generation Pioneer of Improvisation, Free Jazz & experimental music. Since the 1960s he has collaborated with many improvising musical luminaries, groups, dancers, painters, poets, artists from around the world, & performed / acted in alternative theatre, events, Rock & Roll, and Nigerian High Life band. He has played many instruments (piano, cello, mandolin, alto & soprano sax). Since 2000 he has performed regularly with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) playing bamboo reed flutes, Sopranino, recorders, balloons, drums, simultaneously conducting & reciting lyrics, prose, verse with the LIO.