Improv’s Greatest Hits is a night and fluid collective using
improvised music as a vehicle to mix musical and social scenes.
Blurring subculture lines, debuting new artists + collaborations
on the regular

For more and past shows look below !
https://www.instagram.com/improvsgreatesthits

RAYMOND MACDONALD + JER RIED ( GLASGOW )
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https://raymondmacdonaldjerreid.bandcamp.com/album/near-and-far
https://vimeo.com/540640489

Improvised guitar and saxophone duo from two UK improv titans

Raymond MacDonald
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_MacDonald

Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist, composer and academic

A prolific collaborator, he has worked with many pioneers
in avant-garde music including David Byrne, Damo Suzuki,
Nurse with Wound, Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Keith Tippett,
Marilyn Crispell, Günter ‘Baby’ Sommer, Barry Guy, Harry
Beckett, Keith Rowe, Lol Coxill, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble,
Steve Beresford, Axel Dorner, + Tatsuya Nakatani,

Groups include his own Raymond MacDonald International
Big Band which features Lloyd Swanton from The Necks and
ex Sonic Youth guitarist Jim O’Rourke among others. He also
co -leads the Burt-McDonald Quartet (“leading contemporary
Jazz” The Guardian) and is a key player in the formidable
musical force that is the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
which runs an annual programme of events at the Centre
for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow ; described as the
‘Premier league of the European improvisation scene.’
(Sudeutsche Zeitung)

Cross-disciplinary projects have included collaborations
with filmmaker David Mackenzie on film soundtracks like
Young Adam ( Ewan McGregor / Tilda Swinton ) Outlaw
King ( Chris Pine, Florence Pugh ) ; composing for TV
series Taggert ! plus music for artists Christine Borland
+ Martin Boyce as well as writer Douglas Copland

MacDonald was Head of Music 2013-2016 and Professor
of Music Psychology and Improvisation at The University of
Edinburgh. His ongoing research is informed by a view of
improvisation as a social, collaborative and uniquely creative
process that provides opportunities to develop new ways of
working musically plus highlights the ubiquitous importance
of music, stressing that everybody has a biological and social
guarantee of musicianship !

Jer Reid
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https://jerreid.com/music/

A freelance musician, sound engineer and
dramaturge. Initially guitar playing wouldn’t have
kept his interest if he hadn’t had Ali Begbie to make
sounds with when he was a teenager. Since then
he has become veteran of Glasgow’s music scene;
played music or done sound in 30 countries ;
improvised with kids & young adults with support
needs; given performance lectures at the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland and had his music played
on Radio 1, 3, 4 and 6 amongst many other things

BYRN WYRD
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https://aphelioneditions.bandcamp.com/album/l-a-crab

Bryn Wyrd is a Bristol based duo with strong Midlands
roots. The collaboration between Anthony Brown (Repo Man
/ Iceman Furniss Quintet / Swelt) on upright bass and Aron
Ward (Harpoon/ Olanza / Repo Man) on assorted electronics,
drum machines and fx mangling wields an impressively diverse
palate. Aron and Ant bring a gnarled, rugged and hyperactive
sound to the table with traces of early Warp-style IDM (Idiotic
Dance Music) colliding with free-jazz bass wigouts, dub
/concrète/industrial textures smudged into the corners
and plenty of proper swingin’, sweatin’ groove to gurn
your face off too.

“An esoteric romp through IDM, free jazz, and noise”
Norman Records

“In Brown, we have yet another standup bassist thumbing
their nose at learned convention – in this case by throwing
sinewy lines at Ward, who spins them into a web where early
techno meets early industrial and are eavesdropped on by
newer upstarts” - the quietus

“ This is undoubtedly the place if you want to hear a curious,
different kind of improvisation” - vital weekly


PATSY DELVE
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Patsy Delve is a project that sits in the intersection of
new and old; inspired in equal parts by Cindy Lee and
Dirty Beaches, 50s girl groups, Velvet Underground and
Les Rallizes Denudes. Drones, feedback soaked guitars
and tender ballads exist in equal measure. This IGH
performance sees the first outing of a full P.D. band !


IMPROV’s GREATEST HITS BAND
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Occasionally we rep as a band ! we’ll be an octet ! of
Henry Terrett - drums ( bingo fury / Pem )
Hari Newland - guitar electronics ( SNOG etc )
Tom Liversidge - guitar ( Dura Mater )
Llyr Adeline - percussion ( foot foot / broadsheets )
Fred Purse - double bass ( Tenderfoot )
Joe Lyon — sax ( Big Fuss Ensemble)
Marcus Jeffery - drums ( Bert Ussher )
Harry Iceman Furniss ( Bingo Fury / Minor Conflict etc )

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