Compelling duo of constantly inventive improviser - and London's leading drummer - Steve Noble alongside one of New York's most exciting and incendiary jazz musicians in the form of saxophonist and bass clarinettist Assif Tsahar. Support comes from the hypnotic and unpredictable Israeli trio, Greedy Adam, and a duo set from multidisciplinary musician and versatile improviser Yoni Silver, and fearlessly experimental vocalist, performer and artist Sharon Gal.
STEVE NOBLE
Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more. ...
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Compelling duo of constantly inventive improviser - and London's leading drummer - Steve Noble alongside one of New York's most exciting and incendiary jazz musicians in the form of saxophonist and bass clarinettist Assif Tsahar. Support comes from the hypnotic and unpredictable Israeli trio, Greedy Adam, and a duo set from multidisciplinary musician and versatile improviser Yoni Silver, and fearlessly experimental vocalist, performer and artist Sharon Gal.
STEVE NOBLE
Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.
In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).
"Unrepeatable moments of collective inspiration and sudden sunlit shafts of modal near melody punctuate the continuing energy blur." Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times
ASSIF TSAHAR
Assif Tsahar is a saxophonist and bass clarinettist based in New York, where he's become an integral part of the city's improvised music scene since moving there in 1990, including co-founding and producing the Vision festival and running the Hopscotch Records label. As well as being part of the trio Digital Primitives with Cooper-Moore and Chad Taylor, Assif has played as part of Cecil Taylor's Orchestra, Butch Morris' Conduction, William Parker's Little Huey Orchestra and with Hamid Drake, William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Rashied Ali, Warren Smith, Wilbur Morris, Le Quan Ninh, John Tcikai, Fred Anderson, Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Gerald Cleaver, Agusti Fernandez, Ken Vandermark and Kent Kessler.
"Few young jazz players generate the kind of buzz among New York cognoscenti that tenor saxophonist Assif Tsahar, have over the past couple of years. ...through shifts in register and tonal quality, Tsahar has a knack for creating the illusion that he is playing more than one instrument- This is some of the least dense and frenetic free jazz to come out of New York, and some of the most emotionally affecting."- Jazziz
GREEDYADAM
GREEDYADAM are an Israeli trio who describe their music as Psychedelic-Cantorial-Bash. This multi talented power-trio perform music that reaches back to eccentric out-of-the-synagogue-cellar Cantorial pieces melding them with noise and lysergic musicality. In the words of the trio's Noam Inbar, "Greedy Adam, more than being a band is a greenhouse for musical-performative projects".
YONI SILVER
Yoni Silver is a multidisciplinary musician, bass clarinetist, saxophonist, violinist, composer, improvisor and performer. An active player in the Israeli contemporary, noise and free improv scenes, Silver has performed with musicians such as Birgit Uhler, Damon Smith, Alex Drool, Wolfgang Fuchs, Steve Noble, Grisha Shakhnes and others. He is a member of the International Hyperion Ensemble lead by Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, and is also an avid solo performer.
As composer and arranger he has written for and collaborated with Ilan Volkov in Tectonics Tel Aviv 2013, the Israeli Contemporary Players, the Israeli Philharmonic, the Tel Aviv Soloist Ensemble, radical documentary director Avi Mugrabi, artist Gilad Ratman for the venice biennale 2013 etc. Silver's instrumental style is a combination of an explorative approach towards the sonic capabilities of the instrument, with an aesthetic drawing on noise and sound-evolution oriented approaches such as spectralism.
"So surrealistic that it could be perfect for an imaginary remake of the soundtrack for visionary movies such as The Holy Mountain by Jodorowski or even Simon of The Desert by Bunuel, a sort of monody whereas the recording technique seems to be intended to highlight the most experimental possible expressions which clarinet could offer. The frenzy tapping on holes, the circular breathing and the weirdy insufflation sound are just parts of rhythmical and tone-colour research more than of a melodic one. Breath, air, saliva and skin sound like having become essential elements of the instrument, materializing almost an interpenetration with any part of it." -- Vito Camarretta (Chain DLK)
SHARON GAL
Sharon Gal is an experimental vocalist, performer and artist. Her practice involves vocal and electronics free improvisation, collaborative group and site specific performances, field recordings and radio broadcast. She performs solo, and in collaborations with Steve Beresford, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, John Edwards, Dylan Nyoukis, Phil Minton & Feral Singers. She has been conducting a series of collaborative group compositions ; L’ESPRIT D’ESCALIER – for voices in a staircase, LONG DRONE – for a large ensemble of various instruments, TOY ORCHESTRA – for children and adults and GALS with GUITARS – For female guitar players.
Sharon is a founder member of London’s arts radio, Resonance 104.4 FM and has been presenting and producing various shows including the weekly; DIGGERS, with Edwin “Savage Pencil” Pouncey. She has several audio releases: Ash International/ Paradigm records/ Chocolate Monk / Emanem / Ecstatic Yod, and the most recent 7” vinyl, Melancoholic, for American Tapes Label.
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