‘An Afternoon Of Stories’ with Chansons Obliques + Episodes From A Dubliners Diary + Trio X
Doors 3.30 | music 4pm | £10 cash on the door
Chansons Obliques toil in hope that the lyrical paranoia of “The Ambush” will be transformed by coloured percussion and natural sound into a strangely slanted, but seductive song.
Freland Green is an occasional performer with a tendency to talk over recordings.
His motive in this regard is obscure – if not actually misplaced – but undeterred he remains “endearingly persistent and much loved by bar staff”
Stuart Wilding is an improvising percussionist, playing a mixture of junk percussion, lap harp and cello. He is active in many current collaborations including Ghost Mind, Longstone, Lo-fi Ensemble, Mike Adcock duo, Pete Robson duo, Madrona, the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra, The Men They Couldn’t Dance To, Flying Down Trio, Hither Green Drone Orchestra and Makeshift, and a new project Chasons Obliques with Freland Green. He currently runs the Lo-fi Improvised music Workshops in Camberwell. In the past; he founded Xposed Club promoting improvised music in Cheltenham, and he played regularly at the LMC and was a performer and musician with the Hand in Glove Performance Group. stuartwilding.bandcamp.com
Episodes From A Dubliners Day: The Brothers Bratislavoff present a musical response to the words of James Joyce: using selections from Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake to spark a joyous improvised soundscape celebrating the poesy, musicality, humour, wit and philosophy of the famous Dubliner in his words and their music. The Brothers Bratislavoff are all members of the Lo-fi Ensemble from Camberwell, they are:
Pete Robson is an improvising pianist & trumpeter. Trained classically and in brass bands. He was a member of the London Musicians Collective in the 1980s and has followed a path in improvised musics and free jazz ever since. He was a member of The Improvised Music Ensemble in Portsmouth in the 1990s and of the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra in the early 2000s. He is very interested in working across genres. With TIME he composed Temenos a piece to accompany an exhibition of the sculpture of Maurice Owen on a national tour. He was worked closely with poets, actors and dancers exploring the relationship of improvised musics with words, visuals and movement. Recently this included a collaboration with the Butoh Dance collective Posthuman Theatre.
He is also an educator, currently co leading the Lo Fi Improvisation workshop at Longfield Hall in Camberwell: working to develop the community and practice of improving musicians across south London. Currently Pete is a key member of the expanding trio Ghostmind who combine improvised music with a found sound soundtrack. And throughout his musical life he has worked in a duo with percussionist Stu Wilding developing an intimate shared language and intuitive understanding of each others music.
Stuart Wilding see above
Freland Green see above
Simon Lawson is an artist and musician known for live improvised saxophone performances, often paired with visual art such as film and printmaking. Based at Thames-Side Studios (Unit TB-11), he creates immersive audio-visual experiences, including projects like “Urban Archaeology” which feature live improvised scores.
Isaac Robson his first forays into improv came through Xposed club, Cheltenham. Robson plays bass as part of the Lo-fi Improvisers group in South London, performing at events such as Skronk, Konsztrukting Soundz and has been featured on Ambrosia Rasputin show, Resonance FM.
Trio X Improvising voices, bass guitar, toys, costume and visuals.
Ningrui Liu (Akira) is a London-based interdisciplinary artist working across visual media, sound, and performance. She explores how perception and shifting states of meaning shape experience, and is particularly adept at creating works through sensory, spatial, and performative interactions. Akira is also an active member of Noisy Women Presents, a London-based group of women and non-binary artists.
Jo Morrison is an Essex-based vocalist & sound maker with an increasing penchant for costume. She’s also part of the Noisy Women Present collective, regularly plays with the London Improvisors Orchestra & the Lo-Fi Improvised Music Workshop.
After practicing her yarl for sometime, she became a student at TOMA (the other MA), an alternative art school based in Southend.
Felix X Tigersonic is a bass player and improviser working with dub-adjacent sound, low-end texture, and unstable rhythmic space. A long-time performer across underground scenes, her sets move between groove, noise, and live invention. She is a member of the LoFi improvisational ensemble, with releases on Linear Obsessional and Spirit of Gravity. She runs the Artmix Tape label and creates video and installation work around her sound practice.
