أحمد / Josephine Foster / Skylla
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"Incendiary triple bill joining quantum dots between Ahmed’s crazed modal jazz swing, Skylla’s bewitching ECM inspired vocal works and Josephine Foster’s sublime baroque folkways. It’s the last event of Bristol New Music, and all musical boundaries have been left in tatters."
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Sunday 28th April. The event starts at 19:00.
This event is part of #BristolNewMusic
Doors: 1900
Start: 2000
Freeform festival closer featuring: أحمد [Ahmed], the formidable quartet of Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright, Antonin Gerbal and Joel Grip; Josephine Foster, performing songs from her baroque and part-ambient album ‘Godmother’ (2022); and Ruth Goller’s bass, voice, drums compositions as Skylla.
أحمد [Ahmed]
Pat Thomas (piano), Seymour Wright (alto saxophone), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Joel Grip (double bass).
Excavating and re-inhabiting the notes and visions of NYC theorist, educator, composer and musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993), the quartet creates music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep in an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history.
Josephine Foster
Josephine Foster is a North American singer-songwriter from Colorado. She has lent her warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to nearly two decades of self-produced recordings. Her songs are rooted in early American folk-blues as well as classical art song and Tin Pan Alley.
Ruth Goller’s Skylla
Bassist and composer Ruth Goller’s Skylla project foregrounds powerful vocal arrangement, dark washes of melody and contrapuntal percussion, invoking avant-garde composition and slowcore at the same time. Out this spring, the new record features some of Europe’s leading drummers and percussionists; and for this show Goller will be joined by Seb Rochford on drums, along with regular vocalists Lauren Kinsella and Alice Grant.
+ DJ Jennifer Lucy Allan
…………
Taking place from Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 April 2024, Bristol New Music is a city-wide festival of contemporary music and sound.
For the full programme and further information, visit www.bristolnewmusic.org
Entry requirements: 18+
Doors: 1900
Start: 2000
Freeform festival closer featuring: أحمد [Ahmed], the formidable quartet of Pat Thomas, Seymour Wright, Antonin Gerbal and Joel Grip; Josephine Foster, performing songs from her baroque and part-ambient album ‘Godmother’ (2022); and Ruth Goller’s bass, voice, drums compositions as Skylla.
أحمد [Ahmed]
Pat Thomas (piano), Seymour Wright (alto saxophone), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Joel Grip (double bass).
Excavating and re-inhabiting the notes and visions of NYC theorist, educator, composer and musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993), the quartet creates music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep in an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history.
Josephine Foster
Josephine Foster is a North American singer-songwriter from Colorado. She has lent her warbling mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to nearly two decades of self-produced recordings. Her songs are rooted in early American folk-blues as well as classical art song and Tin Pan Alley.
Ruth Goller’s Skylla
Bassist and composer Ruth Goller’s Skylla project foregrounds powerful vocal arrangement, dark washes of melody and contrapuntal percussion, invoking avant-garde composition and slowcore at the same time. Out this spring, the new record features some of Europe’s leading drummers and percussionists; and for this show Goller will be joined by Seb Rochford on drums, along with regular vocalists Lauren Kinsella and Alice Grant.
+ DJ Jennifer Lucy Allan
…………
Taking place from Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 April 2024, Bristol New Music is a city-wide festival of contemporary music and sound.
For the full programme and further information, visit www.bristolnewmusic.org
Entry requirements: 18+
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