'A shape-shifting sound .... providing food for thought on what jazz is and can become’ - Kevin Le Gendre BBC
‘Vibe all of its own. Listen!’ - Steve Lawson
Playing experimental, genre blending music, award winning Tyneside trio Archipelago fuse jazz, alt-rock and free improvisation to name a few, taking inspiration from musicians as diverse as Don Cherry, Morphine and Joni Mitchell.
Since releasing their debut LP ‘Weightless’ in 2017, Archipelago have received national airplay (Late Junction, Jazz on 3), received a ‘Peter Whittingham Development Award’ from Help Musicians UK and played on bills up and down the country including with Arun Ghosh, Horse Orchestra and Binker & Moses.
In 2018, with the support of Help Musicians UK and Cobalt Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne, they ran ‘BETWEEN WAVES’, a collaborative residency-gig series for female-identifying artists to make new music with themselves.
Improvising punk projectors of avant garde sonics. The dark knights of Bristol's jazz scene. Fresh from playing with James Chance & The Ex this year & currently working on their first proper album.
Harry Furniss (cornet) Tom J Bryan (guitar) Ant Brown (bass) Harry Irvine (drums)
"One of the most uncompromising bands you will see live"
Bristol in Stereo
Named after the most beautiful word in the Galician language, Agarimo is the current project of Juan and Pablo Mestres, completed by Marcus Jeffery, Marco Sisto and Sergio Di Giangregorio, resulting in what has been described as “If Prehistory and a Far Future meet for a blind date." Their sound originates from "Sound fabrics of Cerebral nature" and at the same time preserves obsessive rhythms from the primordial echo, erupting in a psychotic equilibrium of Psychedelia, Noise and Post-Punk.
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GIANTESS
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Giantess are an 8 piece abstract sound ensemble from Bristol putting emphasis on pure, free improvisation and naive chaos.