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   Thomas Lehn 

TOOT

OLIE BRICE QUARTET  Alexander Hawkins (piano), Chris Cundy (bass clarinet), 
                                                           Javier Carmona (drums),  Olie Brice (double bass)
 

‘Some might see Tradition as a thing venerable, but some might see veneration itself as syphilitic – the outcome of fin-de-siecle Decadence. Indeed the Red Rose Club in Seven Sisters was the bastion of improvised music for nigh on 25 years. Its demise was inaugurated by the Olie Brice Quartet one bitter-sweet night last year. This youthful combo with their roots firmly in no-man’s land, drove out the old guard and, after wandering the streets of Dalston, now herald the Café Oto as the New Old. May they be short lived and long suffering!’

Edward Houghley in Jazz for Whiteys November issue.

Kalbakken is a sister/brother duo formed in Manchester during the winter of 2005 performing their own particular readings of Norwegian folksong. Echoes of tunes recalled from childhood and later hunted down and researched throughout Scandanavia in recordings and libraries; the group use voices, violin, guitar, jews harp, percussion and recorders to frame traditional melodies within their own arrangements. In the past year the duo have toured in the Uk, Spain and Portugal with plans for a wider European tour to coincide with a new cd release next Spring. 
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Barrel demand goggle-eyed wonderment. In two sets of continuous improvisation, they range far & wide over a vast equilateral triangle of territory with avant-garde ‘art music’, total improv & Dada as its three vertices. With deadpan drollery, the Phineas T Freakears-like Ivor Kallin seeks to persuade us that he & his two fellow string players call themselves Barrel “because we scrape”. Don’t believe a word of it! As Kallin attacks his fiddle frenziedly, he halloos that he can’t help being so violent because “I’m a product of the Scottish educational system”. At that, the bridge of his viola somersaults with a mighty clack across the room in a desperate escape bid. No, in this Barrel resides Diogenes, the ultimate rebel without a tawse.

8 pm : RELAY

3 locations / 16 musicians - including: Alison Blunt (violin), Alex Ward(clarinet), Carole Finer(banjo), Pat Thomas (piano and electronics), Alan Wilkinson (sax), John Say (washboard & snare), John Bisset (guitar), Ute Kanngeisser (cello), James Dunn (tinnitus analyser & electronics & drums) , Stuart Wilding (drums), Olie Brice (double bass), Christopher Cundy (bass clarinet), Ivor Kallin (violin, viola & voice), Dave Ryan (bass clarinet), Sabina Meyer (voice), Gianni Trovalusci (flutes)

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John Bisset at RELAY NY - Museum of Modern Art

Nightly performance by different pianist of 'Mindfulness of pianoplaying' by John Bisset