Hannah Marshall
Jan
15: W/ CROSSING - Veryan Weston - Piano, Yusuf Ahmed - Drums & Pei Ann Yeoh - Violin - Fizzle Birmingham
16: W/ CROSSING - Veryan Weston - Piano, Yusuf Ahmed - Drums & Pei Ann Yeoh - Violin - Wakefield
20: W/ CROSSING - Veryan Weston - Piano, Yusuf Ahmed - Drums & Pei Ann Yeoh - Violin - The Vortex London
Feb
4: W/ Marcio Mattos - Cello & Ian McGowen - Trumpet @ Boat - Ting London
10: W/ Douglas Benford - objects, Mandhira de Saram - Violin & John Butcher - Saxophones @ 100 years Gallery - London
17: W/ Lawrence Casserley - Electronics & Alison Blunt - Violin @ Mopomoso - The Vortex London
21: Solo @ Centrala Gallery Digbeth Birmigham- also on the bill are: Richard Scott- Viola, Joe Wright - Saxophones/electronics, Tapiwa Svosve - alto saxophone & James Opstad - Double Bass
March
6: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Black Box - Belfast
7: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Limerick City Hotel
8: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Spectrum Festival, Button Factory - Dublin
9: W/ Brian Irvine Ensemble @ Navan - Ireland
April
24: Solo 'Cello @ Textures Festival, Cafe Oto - London
May
04: Rachel Musson Nonet @ Cheltenham Festival
29: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Brighton
30:W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Birmingham MAC
31: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Bristol
June
01: W/ Julie Kjaer - Alto sax, Dave Birchall - Guitar & Andrew Cheetham - Drums - Norwich
19: Rachel Musson Nonet @ cafe Oto - London
A visual theatre company that has been making work using puppetry, music, performance, and visual arts since 2001 for which I am co-artistic director, write the music/scores, perform and devise:
"intensely moving" - Joyce Macmillan - The Scotsman
“So good, I thought it was foreign" - Audience member
Trio of 2 saxophones and 'Cello: Julie Kjaer - Alto Saxophone, Rachel Musson - Tenor Saxophone & HM - 'Cello.
" a single diaphonous improvisation of heart stopping intensity and quietude that brings the entire room into a tip-toed state of heightened awareness..."
Daniel Spicer - The Wire
Compositions and structures of Alex Ward. With Alex Ward - Guitar & Clarinet, Rachel Musson - Tenor Saxophone, Tom Jackson - Clarinet, Olie Brice - Bass, HM - 'Cello & Steve Noble - Drums (in sextet).
“a
deft and utterly mesmeric composition for five improvisers” -
Philip Clark – The Guardian
With Yvonna Magda – Violin,
Caitlin Alais Callahan – Bass, HM – 'Cello & Tina Hitchens –
Flutes Halftone pushes past the conventions of traditional instruments in
order to explore ever expanding sonic possibilities.
'The
foursome play an unsettling, absently beautiful post classical music
evoking wind in the trees, unresolved conversations and difficulties
around corners' – Misfit City.
Projects with Pianist Veryan Weston have included: Trio of Uncertainty (+ Satoko Fukuda - Violin), Sol6 (+ Luc Ex - Acoustic Bass, Ingrid Laubrock - Tenor Saxophone, Mandy Drummond - Viola & Tony Buck - Drums), Haste (+ Ingrid laubrock), Tuning Out (+ Jon Rose - Violins) ...and continue with: Trevor Watts' 'Dialogues with strings' (+ Alison Blunt- Violin) & Rhythm Figures Project (+ Mike Gennero - Drums), and most recently 'Crossing' with Yusuf Ahmed Drums + guests.
"...together, these three musicians have created an ingenious document where past and present collide revealing a glimpse what might be in a not-so- imaginary future" (About Haste) Raul de Gama Rose - All about Jazz
Alt-rock no guitar sextet: Bass, 2 Violins, 'Cello, Drums with the Baritone vocals of songwriter Ben Etchells.
"Groove-laden rhythm that brings to mind the melancholy songwriting of joy division....the band expertly craft dark soundscapes full of shadowy concepts and lamenting lyrics ecompassing influences not just from other musicians but from literature film and art" - Flick of the Finger
Duos and collaborations with the hugely energetic and creative double bass player Otto Willberg.
An international sextet with Roger Turner - Drums, Jacques Demierre - Piano, Urs Leimgruber - Reeds, Dorothea Schurch- Singing Saw /voice, & Thomas Lehn - Analogue Synthesisor.
Past reviews:
"...a game of concentration, sound colors, spicks and specks everywhere - as if a Jackson Pollock painting came to life - great art, really demanding. The more often you listen to it, the more beautiful details you can find in these sound landscapes" - Martin Schray
An on-going and developing creative collaboration with the very singular Catalan pianist. We have performed at several venues in UK. Holland, & Belgium.
Trance map is a collaboration between saxophonist Evan Parker and electronics/turntableist Matt Wright who invite musicians to join them to further develop an exploration of turntable generated music with live sampling. Invited musicians apart from myself have been Toma Gouband’s lithophones, percussionist Mark Nauseef, trumpeter Peter Evans, bassist Adam Linson and DJ Spring Heeled Jack.
