A
gig
held at The Cube
on Saturday 10th March. The event starts at 20:00pm.
"Disintegrating genre lines IMPROV'S GREATEST HITS is a new series of shows and forthcoming radio program dedicated to the recent eclectic explosion in Bristol of improvised based music, challenging attitudes as well as along with outside guests, distorting traditional jazz promoting"
****** Tickets 5 quid in advance (link coming soon) or 6 quid on the door
The Sweeties assembled in the year of the fire monkey, 2016 – combining alumni of a.P.A.t.T, the LAZE, Elmo and the Styx, White Blacula (and more) – to perform their compositions encompassing punk, progressive rock, psychedelic, free improvisation, jazz, spoken word, avant-garde, noise, and comedy.
SALTINGS is a pastoral-horror-soundscape project, founded by Irish-born composer Andrew Cooke. Working by himself or collaborating with others, Andrew draws on the unsettling literary influences of authors like M.R. James and W.G. Sebald to tentatively create audio-worlds of controlled darkness; hushed plateaux of eerie tranquility and black horizons full of whispering, half-dreamed creatures... which are also liable to veer into cascading noise and unrepentant drone.
House band of the The Cube and open to all improvisational collective. They have been meeting up regularly every week for several years now and have played with over roughly 200 musicians, spawning several bands and collectives in their own right.
"nothing much is said and particularly about what we might play, instead someone twangs, often just tuning up, and someone else joins in, people’s ears prick up and before you know it something’s happening and a sound is emerging.
... at times chaotic, others surreal, then grooving, then jacking, then morphing into the next phrase" - Keef Chemistry