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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20160117T140000
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SUMMARY:Mopomoso
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nNow celebrating our 25th year of an unbroken concert series dedicated solely to free improvisation the first concert of this anniversary year features three fascinating duos\, each containing one of the three surviving members from the last version of Mal Dean’s Amazing Band\, a group that first performed at Ronnie Scotts in 1973.\n\nLine up:\n\nTerry Day (drums) / Billy Steiger (violin)\n\nTerry Day should need no introduction to followers of improvised music. An ever creative force who’s collaborations with some of the music’s finest players and as a founder member of The People Band are well documented. Always innovative and keen to encourage and nurture creativity he plays here with regular partner Billy Steiger.\n\n\n\nKay Grant (voice) / Marcio Mattos (cello)\n\n \n\n\n\nDescribed by The Wire magazine as “Totally in the here and now... intimate and musically flirtatious” Kay Grant’s vocals can switch between the ethereal and the visceral in a matter of moments. Partnered here by the skittering cello and electronics of Marcio Mattos who provides a continuous narrative that is at once supportive and also provocatory.\n\nTanja Feichtmair (sax) / John Russell (guitar)\n\nAfter over ten years of playing together Feichtmair and Russell’s duo exhibits a feiry intensity that delights in taking risks and playing on the edge while firmly built on their shared sense of musical possibilities.\n\n \n\n\n
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/mopomoso-16/
LOCATION:11 Gillett Square\, London\, N16 8AZ
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20160117T193000
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SUMMARY:Phil Merriman's Emergence and Robert Stillman (album launch)
DESCRIPTION:1st set:\nRobert Stillman Quartet - Rainbow album launch\nRobert Stillman (saxophone)\,\nLucy Railton (cello)\nKit Downes (piano)\nTom Skinner (drums)\nRainbow is the new album by Robert Stillman. To the extent that music\, especially that which is wordless\, can describe life\, Rainbow serves as a window into the past four years of Stillman’s own: a time of birth\, death\, love\, and learning\, and through these things\, a new willingness to look the world in the eye.\nThe album is structured around dedications: to his wife\, Anna; to his late daughter Ruth\, and his second-born daughter Romilly; to the landscape of his adopted home in East Kent; and to his blue station wagon\, Warren.\nAfter two recent projects with his ensemble The Archaic Future Players (Station Wagon Interior Perspective; Leap of Death)\, Rainbow represents a return to the loner working methods of 2011’s Machine Song\, with Stillman building up intricate arrangements from multi-tracked recordings of himself on all instruments. Rainbow also marks the return of Stillman’s tenor saxophone\, a sound not heard in such a prominent role in his music since his 2004 debut\,Robert Stillman’s Horses. With these trusted methods and tools\, Stillman explores new stylistic territory\, reconciling influences as disparate as the Brazilian psychedelia of Milton Nascimento with the uninhibited poetics of Ornette Coleman\, the “Social Music” volume of Harry Smith’s Folkways anthology with the early electronic Klangstudie of Herbert Eimert. Stillman’s singing voice is also heard for the first time\, in a recording made during a walk with his daughter through the field described in the song’s lyrics.\nThe musical diversity on this album is no doubt a product of Stillman’s varied musical life\, which started with saxophone lessons in his native Portland\, Maine. A move to Boston at age 18 to study jazz introduced him to the like-minded colleagues with whom he’d later move to New York\, including future members of bands such as Glass Ghost\, Dirty Projectors\, Caveman\, and Here We Go Magic. Upon moving to New York in 2001\, this circle was widened further to include new collaborators such as Luke Temple\, Chris and Kurt Weisman\, and members of the band Grizzly Bear; since relocating to England\, Stillman has worked in bands led by Kit Downes and Tom Skinner.\nOver the course of his career\, Stillman has toured extensively\, playing a variety of venues both as a solo “one-man band” of piano and foot-percussion\, and with ensembles of various instrumentations\, and he has supported acts such as Deerhoof\, Yo La Tengo\, Dirty Projectors\, and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.\n'If there's emotional gravitas to the thirty-five-minute recording\, it's undoubtedly well-earned\, with Stillman having experienced birth\, love\, and death during the past four years (an inner sleeve note includes a dedication to his late daughter Ruth). Yet as the cover text (from 1987's Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh) intimates\, Rainbow isn't thematically about despair but instead affirmation\, gratitude\, and celebration.' (Textura)\n\n2nd set\nPhil Merriman - Emergence\n\n\n\nPhil Merriman brings his Emergence project to the Vortex for this night celebrating the fusion of diverse musical genres. Beats meet Bartók and synths meet strings; 'Emergence' is the new project and EP from Merriman which brings together his interests and influences from Jazz and R&B\, to Classical and Indian music.\n\nEmergence features a stellar line-up\, including:\n\nGustav Clarkson (viola)\n\nRaph Clarkson (trombone)\n\nMatt Gough (trumpet)\n\nPhil Merriman (piano/synths)\n\nHuw Williams (bass)\n\nAref Durvesh (tabla)\n\nJon Ormston (drums)\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/phil-merrimans-emergence-and-paul-bilson/
LOCATION:11 Gillett Square\, London\, N16 8AZ
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