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"Legendary improviser and percussionist Eddie Prévost locks into a raucous tussle with Swiss trumpet player Silvan Schmid and London-based double bassist Tom Wheatley. This'll be unmissable OTO-level display of technical aplomb, ecstasy, and explosiveness FFO: Jim O’Rourke, Chris Corsano, Sachiko M, Accidental Meetings."
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A gig on Saturday 13th September. The event starts at 20:00.
Eddie Prévost - drums / Tom Wheatley - double bass / Silvan Schmid - trumpet
Eddie Prévost is simply one of the greats of British music, with a significant & influential presence in British improvised music as the percussionist & a founding member of seminal group AMM, which began in 1965, with members including Keith Rowe & Cornelius Cardew & played the last show in 2022.
In tonight’s inter-generational trio line up, Eddie sits with Swiss trumpeter Silvan Schmid & London-based double bassist Tom Wheatley.
Alongside involvement with AMM, Eddie has been an open & restless collaborator across performances & recordings including Sachiko M, John Butcher, Chris Corsano, Christian Wolff, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Jim O’ Rourke. Eddie is also an educator, author & runs the label Matchless Recordings
“One of the greatest metallurgists that music has produced” Nathan Moore
“His free drumming flows superbly…but his most startling feature is his style-lessness. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or a Max Roach.” - Melody Maker (27.03.1975)
Silvan Schmid is a Swiss trumpet player as well as band leader, festival curator & musical collaborator. He is a member of experimental arts & music collective Gamut Kollektiv & has collaborated across Europe with players including Alex Riva, Timothée Quost & Natalie Peters with solo recordings released by the legendary Swiss label Hat Hut Records.
Tom Wheatley is an artist and musician based in London. His compositional and bass playing approach centres around rhythmic patterns & cycles, deconstructing the acoustic & material properties of his double bass. Tom has collaborated extensively with a rich cast of players including Daniel Blumberg (featuring on his Oscar winning score for last year’s The Brutalist), Caius Williams, Ute Kanngiesser, John Edwards, Harry Gorskí-Brown & electro, free jazz duo Tennota [née теплота] with Grundik Kasyansky (including a release on Bristol’s Accidental Meetings).
The trio present an ever-shifting musical conversation which explores their individual instruments & the surrounding acoustic space. Recorded in All Saints Church in Essex, their debut album The Wandering One was released in 2024 on Matchless Recordings.
The Wandering One is indeed both wandering & wondering, full of musical movement shaped by Eddie’s scurrying rhythms, percussive stick patterns & cymbal crashes. Silvan’s warm trumpet tone bursts, rasps & stretches across the undercurrent of Tom’s deep & earthy bowed bass lines before the trio’s lines weave together in a shared slipstream before diverging again in further exploration.
As a trio they have performed in Europe & key UK venues such as London’s Cafe OTO, Brighton’s The Rose Hill & Glasgow’s Glad Cafe. Their performance in St Anne’s Church will be one of 3 further UK dates & a rare chance to welcome Eddie back to Bristol since his live recordings at The Cube in 2008 & even further back, playing the Arnolfini in 1984.
George Owen will open the evening with an improvised solo cello suite.
George is a classically-trained composer, orchestrator, arranger, cellist, and conductor from the South-West of England. Over a decade of performing has included playing in the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, founding the SoundWorld ensemble and membership of experimental new music group Middle Aisle Ensemble who premiered at Bristol New Music in 2024.
St Anne's Church, St Leonard's Rd, Eastville, Bristol BS5 6JN
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Eddie Prévost is simply one of the greats of British music, with a significant & influential presence in British improvised music as the percussionist & a founding member of seminal group AMM, which began in 1965, with members including Keith Rowe & Cornelius Cardew & played the last show in 2022.
In tonight’s inter-generational trio line up, Eddie sits with Swiss trumpeter Silvan Schmid & London-based double bassist Tom Wheatley.
Alongside involvement with AMM, Eddie has been an open & restless collaborator across performances & recordings including Sachiko M, John Butcher, Chris Corsano, Christian Wolff, Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Jim O’ Rourke. Eddie is also an educator, author & runs the label Matchless Recordings
“One of the greatest metallurgists that music has produced” Nathan Moore
“His free drumming flows superbly…but his most startling feature is his style-lessness. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or a Max Roach.” - Melody Maker (27.03.1975)
Silvan Schmid is a Swiss trumpet player as well as band leader, festival curator & musical collaborator. He is a member of experimental arts & music collective Gamut Kollektiv & has collaborated across Europe with players including Alex Riva, Timothée Quost & Natalie Peters with solo recordings released by the legendary Swiss label Hat Hut Records.
Tom Wheatley is an artist and musician based in London. His compositional and bass playing approach centres around rhythmic patterns & cycles, deconstructing the acoustic & material properties of his double bass. Tom has collaborated extensively with a rich cast of players including Daniel Blumberg (featuring on his Oscar winning score for last year’s The Brutalist), Caius Williams, Ute Kanngiesser, John Edwards, Harry Gorskí-Brown & electro, free jazz duo Tennota [née теплота] with Grundik Kasyansky (including a release on Bristol’s Accidental Meetings).
The trio present an ever-shifting musical conversation which explores their individual instruments & the surrounding acoustic space. Recorded in All Saints Church in Essex, their debut album The Wandering One was released in 2024 on Matchless Recordings.
The Wandering One is indeed both wandering & wondering, full of musical movement shaped by Eddie’s scurrying rhythms, percussive stick patterns & cymbal crashes. Silvan’s warm trumpet tone bursts, rasps & stretches across the undercurrent of Tom’s deep & earthy bowed bass lines before the trio’s lines weave together in a shared slipstream before diverging again in further exploration.
As a trio they have performed in Europe & key UK venues such as London’s Cafe OTO, Brighton’s The Rose Hill & Glasgow’s Glad Cafe. Their performance in St Anne’s Church will be one of 3 further UK dates & a rare chance to welcome Eddie back to Bristol since his live recordings at The Cube in 2008 & even further back, playing the Arnolfini in 1984.
George Owen will open the evening with an improvised solo cello suite.
George is a classically-trained composer, orchestrator, arranger, cellist, and conductor from the South-West of England. Over a decade of performing has included playing in the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, founding the SoundWorld ensemble and membership of experimental new music group Middle Aisle Ensemble who premiered at Bristol New Music in 2024.
St Anne's Church, St Leonard's Rd, Eastville, Bristol BS5 6JN
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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