A gig held at Cafe Kino on Monday 18th November. The event starts at 19:30.
An evening of improvised experimental music in Cafe Kino basement.
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Chris Cundy - solo bass clarinet & electronics
For over two decades he has specialised in bass clarinet and rarified woodwinds, touring internationally as a solo artist, as well a collaborating with some of Europe’s leading free improvisation and contemporary classical
players.
“Swirling around the songs was bass clarinet player Chris Cundy, like a birdsong interrupting
an argument” LOS ANGELES TIMES.
“It’s almost as if Chris Cundy is raising the dead when he hits bone rattling low notes on the
bass clarinet” MASS FREQUENCY.
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Alan Wilkinson - reeds
Phil Minton - voice
Matthew Grigg - gtr / amp
A rare Bristol appearance from Alan Wilkinson to mark the year of his 70th birthday (prior to his cafe Oto residency). Largely known as a player of fiery intensity, he has played in innumerable ad hoc settings in the UK and beyond notable collaborators have included Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Akira Sakata, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Eddie Prevost & Charles Hayward.
For most of the last forty years, Minton has been working as an improvising singer in lots of groups, orchestras, and situations. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians, including tours with American singer Audrey Chen - with whom he has sang far and wide in the last ten years.
Matthew Grigg is Bristol based musician and concert organiser active in improvised and noise musics.
“somehow treads an impossible line between fragile beauty and gnarled anger” – Phil England, The Wire
“focuses primarily on intuitively creating sound on the electric guitar. Influences such as avant-garde, musique-concrête and noise are never far away in his idiosyncratic sound palette…” – New Wave of Jazz
“I have no idea how Grigg plays his instrument, but it is barely recognizable as a guitar.” – FdW, Vital Weekly
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Raph Clarkson - trombone
Kay Grant - voice
Raph Clarkson is a trombonist, improviser, composer and educator. He has developed an eclectic musical career, which spans contemporary jazz, avant-garde improvised music, theatre and performance art, contemporary classical music, ska/reggae, South African township jazz, and salsa. He has toured Europe, China, India, South Africa and the USA with ensembles including WorldService Project, The Dualers, Shed Seven, The Octandre Ensemble, and his own projects The Dissolute Society, RESOLUTE, Equal Spirits and Speckles Brass.
Kay Grant is a UK jazz vocalist, bandleader and composer with a style-spanning background. Throughout her varied career, Grant’s music has travelled an open-eared and open-armed path through interpretation, improvisation and composition. Grant has toured and recorded throughout the UK, Europe and in the US, from intimate performances in local venues to celebrated spaces including the Barbican in London, Carnegie Hall in New York and Le Zénith in Paris.
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Doors 7.30 | Music 7.45 - 10.00
£10 adv | £12 door
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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Chris Cundy - solo bass clarinet & electronics
For over two decades he has specialised in bass clarinet and rarified woodwinds, touring internationally as a solo artist, as well a collaborating with some of Europe’s leading free improvisation and contemporary classical
players.
“Swirling around the songs was bass clarinet player Chris Cundy, like a birdsong interrupting
an argument” LOS ANGELES TIMES.
“It’s almost as if Chris Cundy is raising the dead when he hits bone rattling low notes on the
bass clarinet” MASS FREQUENCY.
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Alan Wilkinson - reeds
Phil Minton - voice
Matthew Grigg - gtr / amp
A rare Bristol appearance from Alan Wilkinson to mark the year of his 70th birthday (prior to his cafe Oto residency). Largely known as a player of fiery intensity, he has played in innumerable ad hoc settings in the UK and beyond notable collaborators have included Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Akira Sakata, Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, Eddie Prevost & Charles Hayward.
For most of the last forty years, Minton has been working as an improvising singer in lots of groups, orchestras, and situations. Numerous composers have written music especially for his extended vocal techniques. He has a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher, and ongoing duos, trios and quartets with above and many other musicians, including tours with American singer Audrey Chen - with whom he has sang far and wide in the last ten years.
Matthew Grigg is Bristol based musician and concert organiser active in improvised and noise musics.
“somehow treads an impossible line between fragile beauty and gnarled anger” – Phil England, The Wire
“focuses primarily on intuitively creating sound on the electric guitar. Influences such as avant-garde, musique-concrête and noise are never far away in his idiosyncratic sound palette…” – New Wave of Jazz
“I have no idea how Grigg plays his instrument, but it is barely recognizable as a guitar.” – FdW, Vital Weekly
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Raph Clarkson - trombone
Kay Grant - voice
Raph Clarkson is a trombonist, improviser, composer and educator. He has developed an eclectic musical career, which spans contemporary jazz, avant-garde improvised music, theatre and performance art, contemporary classical music, ska/reggae, South African township jazz, and salsa. He has toured Europe, China, India, South Africa and the USA with ensembles including WorldService Project, The Dualers, Shed Seven, The Octandre Ensemble, and his own projects The Dissolute Society, RESOLUTE, Equal Spirits and Speckles Brass.
Kay Grant is a UK jazz vocalist, bandleader and composer with a style-spanning background. Throughout her varied career, Grant’s music has travelled an open-eared and open-armed path through interpretation, improvisation and composition. Grant has toured and recorded throughout the UK, Europe and in the US, from intimate performances in local venues to celebrated spaces including the Barbican in London, Carnegie Hall in New York and Le Zénith in Paris.
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Doors 7.30 | Music 7.45 - 10.00
£10 adv | £12 door
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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