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An extended evening of adventurous music taking place across Servant Jazz Quarters, The Vortex, Cafe OTO and The OTO Project Space. Saturday 7 December 2013. 4pm-late.

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Hannes Riepler / Mick Coady / Chris Draper

Hannes Riepler runs the superb Vortex Jam Sessions - nights which have seen the likes of Soweto Kinch and Django Bates show up to play. His own playing combines the immediacy of New York’s propulsive Downtown style with classical and folk textures.

Tonight he's joined by Mick Coady on bass and Chris Draper on drums.

https://soundcloud.com/terabel/hannes-riepler-quintett-the

For Intersect Hannes Riepler / Mick Coady / Chris Draper will play at the Vortex at midnight

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George Crowley

George Crowley is one of the most prominent new voices among the sea of burgeoning creative musicians living in London. Equally adept at both saxophone and clarinet, he is instantly recognizable by his expressively direct tone and infectious improvisations.

https://soundcloud.com/georgecrowley

For Intersect George will play at the Vortex Downstairs at 4pm

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Fumi Okiji & Olie Brice

Vocalist Fumi Okiji and double bass player Olie Brice explore the area where traditional jazz meets improvisation: the outer reaches of standards interpretation and improv.

http://fumiokiji.wordpress.com/

http://oliebrice.wordpress.com/

For Intersect Fumi Okiji and Olie Brice will play at the Vortex Downstairs at 5pm

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PIANO M.U.S.C.L.E (piano techno study #5) Klavikon

Klavikon:

KLAVIKON reimagines ‘electronic’ music without the use of conventional processes - no loops, no laptops, no synthesisers or drum machines. Instead, pianist Leon Michener employs a unique system of amplified prepared piano and broken guitar pedals. Augmenting the 88 keys with found objects and his own inventions - a custom made pick up, a robot dog - he delivers cascading batteries of percussion, ferocious sub-basses and abstract soundscapes. This amalgam of virtuosic classical technique and real-time analogue sound processing is at once connected with the dancefloor idiom of Detroit Techno pioneers and the musical traditions of Stockhausen and Cage. The result is an uncharted sonic territory, sincere in it’s eccentricity, bold in it's statement, resisting easy categorisation.

Klavikon will be performing at SJQ

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YONI SILVER / bass clarinet  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.

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STEVE NOBLE / drums  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

Steve Noble plays in a trio with Rachel Musson and Julie Kjaer at Cafe OTO

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SEYMOUR WRIGHT / alto saxophone  “Saxophonist Seymour Wright has emerged as the most important saxophonist of his generation. . . [He] shows a command of the saxophone which in contrast to most ‘non-idiomatic’ playing – cynically translated as ‘make your saxophone sound like anything other than a saxophone’ – has deep roots in a tradition of playing that goes back to Frankie Trumbauer, Coleman Hawkins and Willie Smith.” - Brian Morton  Seymour Wright website 

Seymour Wright plays in a quartet with Ross Lambert, Paul Abbott and Guillaume Viltard at Cafe OTO

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ROSS LAMBERT / guitar  Northern Irish (and London-based) guitarist and ‘magnetic and vibrating sources’ player Ross Lambert, has in his own words, the following fundamental and simultaneous approaches to live performance: to play as though it was both the first time and also the last; and to able to differentiate between what is good and worth conserving and what is not. Ross has been involved in, initiated and been a connector between a very wide variety of improvisatory music since his first exposure and (immediate) commitment to it, in Sheffield via Derek Bailey during the mid-1980s. Although under-recorded (he claims ‘by choice’), Ross has worked with a huge number of musicians from around the world, including Tetuzi Akiyama, Ami Yoshida, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Paul Hession, Rhodri Davies, John Butcher and Evan Parker, as well as his close friends Eddie Prevost, Seymour Wright, and Sebastian Lexer. 

Ross Lambert plays in a quartet with Seymour Wright, Paul Abbott and Guillaume Viltard at Cafe OTO

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RACHEL MUSSON / tenor saxophone  Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, one of which, a trio featuring Liam Noble and Mark Sanders, released the album'Tatterdemalion' on Babel Label in March 2013. Rachel is also working on two duo projects, one with Danish saxophonist Julie Kjaer and the other with bassist Olie Brice. She has also written for and recorded with her own band, Skein, which released a highly acclaimed album on F-IRE Records at the end of 2010. She was picked by BBC Jazz on Three to perform at Cheltenham Jazz Festival last year, and in the same year was nominated for a London Jazz Award. She has performed with Alcyona Mick, Liam Noble, Gail Brand, Olie Brice, Federico Ughi, Mary Halvorson, Sebastian Rochford, among many others.

"Musson’s unusual blend of a melody-building lightness with a raw, free-jazzy multiphonic palette… ought to make her a hot ticket" - John Fordham, The Guardian

Rachel Musson plays in a trio with Julie Kjaer and Steve Noble at Cafe OTO

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PAUL ABBOTT / drums  Paul Abbott has been a quietly innovative presence in London's improvised music scene for the last few years working with electronics and self-built instruments before more recently dedicating a good part of his energy to the radical potential of an unadorned drumset, notably as one third of lll人 with Seymour Wright and Daichi Yoshikawa - a trio that recaptures free jazz's original ability to simultaneously shock, confound and delight.  www.paulabbott.net 

Paul Abbott plays as part of lll人 at Cafe OTO

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HANNAH MARSHALL / cello  Hannah Marshall is a cellist who is continuing to extract, invent, and exorcize as many sounds and emotional qualities from her instrument as she can. She has been a regular member of Alexander Hawkins’ Ensembles and has toured in Europe and South America with Luc Ex and Veryan Weston’s ensembles – SOL 6 & 12. She plays with ‘String Terrorists’ - Barrel (a trio with violinist Alison Blunt & violist/poet Ivor kallin), and has been invited by Fred Frith and Suichi Chino in their residencies at Café Oto. She also plays with Terry Day, Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Paul May, Kay Grant, and the London Improvisers Orchestra. 

“sublime technical abilities... she reinvents melodic lines, provides spectacular harmonic intervention... sets the pulse around which much of the music revolves” - Raul D’Gama Rose

http://www.hannahmarshall.net/

Hannah Marshall will be performing in a quintet with Angharad Davies, Jennifer Allum, Guillaume Viltard and Oliver Coates in the OTO Project Space

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GUILLAUME VILTARD / bass  Born in 1975 in the North of Ivory Coast, Viltard grew up in the wild countryside with almost no music. Back in France, he played with many artists of the French underground improv scene, including dancers and poets as well as musicians.  After moving to London in late 2007, Viltard has worked with many of London’s best improvisers, forming strong associations with the circle of musicians centred on Eddie Prevost's experimental workshop, becoming a mainstay of the London Improvisers Orchestra, and playing in a great free jazz trio with Tony Marsh and Shabaka Hutchings that was sadly curtailed by Marsh's untimely death.  It is this eclectic appetite for collaboration across the whole spectrum of improvised music as well as his resolutely unamplified and powerfully physical playing that marks Viltard out as one of the most interesting musicians to emerge from London's fertile improvised and experimental scene in the last few years.  Guillaume Viltard website 

Guillaume Viltard will be playing in a quintet with Angharad Davies, Hannah Marshall, Jennifer Allum and Oliver Coates in the OTO Project Space, and in a quartet with Seymour Wright, Ross Lambert and Paul Abbott at Cafe OTO

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DAICHI YOSHIKAWA  Daichi Yoshikawa is one of the most interesting young improvising musicians currently based in London. Using a variety of inverted, diverted and reinvented electronic and acoustic devices he strikes a constantly evolving balance between harsh atonal feedback and elegant high-frequency constructions.  daichiyoshikawa.tumblr.com/ llln.org/ 

Daichi Yoshikawa will be playing as part of lll人 at Cafe OTO

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ANGHARAD DAVIES / violin  Angharad Davies is a violinist whose work is situated in the complex intersection of improvised and composed music. She is dedicated to exploring and expanding sound production on the violin, and has developed a specific approach to the violin, which extends the sound possibilities of the instrument by attaching and applying objects to the strings or by sounding unexpected parts of the instrument's body.  Davies is an active performer in contemporary, improvisation and experimental music both as a soloist, within ensembles such as Apartment House and Common Objects, and in smaller improvised groups with musicians such as Axel Dörner, Taku Unami, and Tisha Mukarji.  Her sensitivity to the sonic possibilities of musical situations and attentiveness to their shape and direction make her one of contemporary music's most fascinating figures.  www.angharaddavies.com 

Angharad Davies plays in a trio with Yoni Silver and Phil Julian in the OTO Project Space

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ALEX WARD / clarinet, guitar  Alex Ward is a composer, improviser, and performing musician, working primarily with clarinet and guitar. His involvement in freely improvised music dates back to 1986, when he met the guitarist Derek Bailey. He subsequently took part regularly in Bailey's Company events, and has gone on to become a major figure in British improvised music. His current work ranges from the duo Dead Days Beyond Help, in which he plays guitar and sings, his group Predicate who perform his compositions, regular improvising groups with Steve Noble, Kay Grant and others, as well as more ad hoc encounters with musicians as diverse as Eugene Chadbourne, Thurston Moore, Joe Morris and Weasel Walter, and co-running the label Copepod with Luke Barlow. He brings a unique energy and inventiveness to all these projects, elevating them far above the ordinary and injecting them with a thrilling sense of danger and possibility. 

"Alex Ward is one of those players who seems to get interesting music out of anything he touches" - Nate Dorward, Paris Transatlantic

alexward.org.uk 

Alex Ward plays in a quartet with James Dunn, Pete Blundell, and Yoni Silver at Cafe OTO.

Photo by Andy Newcombe

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Isnaj Dui: What Lies Inside

Taken from 'Abstracts on Solitude' (Hibernate Recordings), 2012

Beautiful! Isnaj Dui writes glitchy neo-impressionistic music using flutes, home-made dulcimers and electronics.

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Ore: Deep Tuba Doom & Drone

ORE play slow music using two tubas and amplification, informed (but not limited) by their enthusiasm for drones, doom metal, improvisation and minimalism. They are heavy, but the heaviness comes from the way the bass, contrabass, and subcontrabass sounds hang in the air and relate to their surroundings – natural echoes, natural silences.

For Intersect Ore will perform at SJQ