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SUMMARY:MOPOMOSO 25th ANNIVERSARY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nMopomoso’s anniversary series continues with a close look at solo and duo playing.\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\nFaith Brackenbury (violin) / Martin Speake (sax) duo\n\nFaith and Martin have backgrounds in jazz\, folk and classical music and share a delight in improvising.  Martin has been described as ‘one of the most interesting and rewarding alto saxophonists now playing jazz on any continent." (Thomas Conrad - Jazz Times) and together with Faith their music takes the listener on a lyrical journey of timeless melodic invention.\n\nAlex Maguire solo piano\n\nMaguire is interested in ‘pre-literate music\, anything original rather than imitative (irrespective of idiom)’. He has studied with classical composers John Cage and Michael Finnissy and his arsenal of techniques and figures\, stretch from avant garde classical piano to jazz and from kwela to R&B. One of the UK’s true originals in a rare solo appearance.\n\nFang-Yi Liu (voice) / John Russell (guitar) duo\n\nBased in Kaohsiung the southern Taiwan\, Liu’s work concentrates on tonal improvisation and field recordings. His performances are mostly based on the use of varied materials and methods to explore the boundaries of expression of human voice and environment sound. He is also the founder of Cochlea\, an online platform and group for promoting sound art and experimental music. He has released two CD albums\, Koujie- Koujie and Bathroom Meteorology\, in 2014 and 2015. Here he teams up with renowned UK guitarist Russell for a set of close intuitive interplay.\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:Nikki Yeoh Solo Gemini album launch
DESCRIPTION:At last! The first solo piano album by Nikki Yeoh that we have been waiting for for 25 years. This will be a very special night to celebrate and enjoy.\n\nFrom Guardian\, 17 June\n****\n"This solo album from London pianist Nikki Yeoh has been a long time coming – Courtney Pine hired her back in the early 1990s\, and she’s been an original\, if elusive\, composer/player ever since. Now she’s come out with the solo set that always seemed imminent. The mazey Six As 1\, a left-hand hook varied first by darting chords and trills and then jangling\, stretching-and-squeezing rhythm patterns\, springs from a John Cage-inspired composition she wrote for six pianos. Her ballad playing confirms her subtlety in developing slow songs in melodically mobile but cohesive ways. Some pieces sound like impetuously abstract stride-piano and the title track is a sly hint at a bass groove that develops a brusque\, glittery melody. Mutual Serenade\, composed by an 18-year-old Yeoh after hanging out with Brazilian force of nature Hermeto Pascoal\, is a strings-strumming meditation that becomes a harmonically sophisticated mood piece and then a rich\, harplike swirl. There are no gimmicks or fashionable angles\, just a gifted pianist taking a long-postponed journey."\n\n\nNikki Yeoh is a creative free spirit who\, although deeply rooted in the language of improvisation\, is open to a range of music that leans as much to populism as it does high art.” Kevin Le Gendre\n\n 
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