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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20190529T194500
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SUMMARY:Bedmakers + Alcyona Mick + Smith/Calvert/Nicholls
DESCRIPTION:An evening bringing together many familiar faces to the Vortex in a kaleidoscope of musical directions.\n\nBEDMAKERS\n\nRobin Fincker - tenor saxophone\nMathieu Werchowsky - violin\nDave Kane - double bass\nFabien Duscombs - drums\n\nBedmakers combines the lyrical flights of traditional Irish folk music\,\nilluminated blues and the richness of free improvisation.\n\nThe Franco-British quartet storms the meanders of Anglo-Saxon folk music.\nThe four unclassifiable improvisers dig\, scratch and rumble this fertile\nsonic ground\, nourished by multiple decades of oral tradition in order to\nexcavate its melodic essence. These tunes that one hums without realising\,\nthat feel familiar without being able to point their source\, find themselves\nout of their original context\, superposed or extended\, declaimed or only\nsuggested\, sometimes buried under a storm of concrete-noise music or\ndistilled in a minimalist blow.\n\nPut together in 2016 by anglophile saxophonist Robin Fincker (Vincent\nCourtois\, Loop Collective\, Whahay)\, Bedmakers reunites four musicians from\npolymorphic and singular musical universes with French drummer Fabien\nDuscombs\, violinist with electroacoustic drifts Mathieu Werchowsky and Irish\nbassist Dave Kane. The group has performed over 70 concerts all over Europe\,\nexpanding their repertoire in an inexhaustible reservoir: a mix of collected\nand original compositions. The quartet seeks to evoke the feeling of letting\ngo\, the trance\, the collective jubilation on a dance floor by a greatly\ndynamic musical experience. A backwash of noise gestures\, ceaseless loops of\nthe bow\, heady melodies of the saxophone and the quartet’s new rhythm\nsection's polymorphic sound converge towards a common goal of invisible\ndance and molecular shock.\n\nTheir European tour in May 2019 takes them from Moscow to Edinburgh\, through\nEstonia\, Finland\, France and England.\n\nVideo links:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ect2ue1U7GY\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra2EaZCjInM\n\nALCYONA MICK - piano\n\n\nAlcyona started playing piano at the age of three. She has been performing internationally for many years working regularly with Anglo/Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas\, and has performed extensively in France in recent years. She is a member of the London Jazz Orchestra\, Tori Freestone/Alcyona Mick Duo\, Eddie Parker's Debussy Mirrored ensemble\, Bachar Zarkan Ensemble\, Josephine Davies’ ‘Orenda’ trio w Brigitte Beraha\, Merit Ariane’s ‘Moonlarking’\, Noel Langley’s ‘Edentide’\, John Warren nonet\, Paul Clarvis/Stuart Hall trio\, Samy Bishai quartet\, The Exiles w Scott Stroman/Cennet Jonsson. She has performed in Turkey for TRT music series with many Turkish artists\, and worked with a wide array of other musicians including Yazz Ahmed\, Mircan Kaya\, Jerry Dammers Spatial aka Orchestra\, Ibrahim Maalouf\, Macadi Nahhas\, Zoe Rahman and many more.\n\nAs a composer she has a Master's in Composing music for film from the National Film and Television school. She has written and produced music for many independent short films\, documentaries\, animation and silent cinema. She has released four albums: 'Around the Sun' (Audio-b) under her own name\, 'Blink' (Loop) and 'Twice' (Babel) with Blink and cellist Vincent Courtois\, and ‘Criss Cross’ with saxophonist Tori Freestone (Whirlwind Recordings). She also writes for the London Jazz Orchestra and an electronica project with violinist Samy Bishai.\n\n'world class ingenuity' the Guardian\n\n'Alcyona Mick is an unusual powerhouse of a talent' - MOJO\n\nSMITH/CALVERT/NICHOLLS\n\n\n\nKnown collectively as London avant-garde supergroup Strobes\, Dave Smith\, Matt Calvert and Dan Nicholls assemble for a special one-off improvised set incorporating modular synths\, spaced-out drones\, glitchy live sampling and their signature off kilter beats.\n\nDave Smith (Fofoulah\, Robert Plant\, Eddie Henderson) - drums\nMatt Calvert (Three Trapped Tigers\, Goldie\, Anton Eger) - Electronics\nDan Nicholls (Free Movements\, Squarepusher\, Matthew Herbert) - keys/synths\n\nhttps://youtu.be/uayfp8lOWCc
URL:https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/bedmakers-alcyona-mick-smithcalvertnicholls/
LOCATION:11 Gillett Square\, London\, N16 8AZ
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