Benedict Taylor & Dirk Serries – Two Day Residency
“The duo’s respective idiosyncrasies add dynamism and timbral variation to what might otherwise be a too-cosy meeting of string-orientated brains. Serries, on acoustic guitar, scrupulously avoids politeness. His guttural strums and needling plucks waste no time leaping into the gutter and rolling around in its mucky debris. Fortunately, the dense gravity of those jabs and scratches fails to drag Taylor down with them. Impish and intricate, Taylor is always just out of reach, his cavalier swoops darting among the clouds like gangs of sarcastic butterflies. Muddy earth meets tempestuous air. It’s elemental, baby.” We Need No Swords – UK
After their well-received debut duo album PUNCTURE CYCLE, British key improviser BENEDICT TAYLOR and Belgian guitarist DIRK SERRIES have a new album out, called OBSIDIAN, on the Portuguese CREATIVE SOURCES label. This is their 2nd duo album, this time recorded at this beautiful chapel in Dirk’s hometown in Belgium. Apart from their duo recordings and performances these productive artists played numerous times together in in various projects (just think about TONUS, SETT, Daniel Thompson’s quintet, etc) and events. Celebrating this brand-new album, the duo is doing this two-day residency at Hundred Years Gallery for which they invited an eclectic and unique list of British improvisers. Truly honored and over the moon they all accepted and are joinging the duo for some unfiltered improvisation.
Saturday March 30th 7pm
SET 1 : BENEDICT TAYLOR and DIRK SERRIES
SET 2 : BENEDICT TAYLOR and DIRK SERRIES plus JOHN BUTCHER, JOHN EDWARDS, CHARLOTTE KEEFFE and BLANCA REGINA.
Sunday March 31st 3pm
SET 1 : BENEDICT TAYLOR and DIRK SERRIES plus MAGGIE NICOLS and MARK WASTELL
SET 2 : BENEDICT TAYLOR and DIRK SERRIES plus STEVE BERESFORD, SYLVIA HALLETT and COLIN WEBSTER
