An evening of freely improvised music from this US/UK trio.
Dominic Lash: double bass and electric guitar
Josh Sinton: baritone saxophone and alto flute
Alex Ward: clarinet and electric guitar
Josh Sinton: Called “varied and exciting,” as well as “one of the most striking baritone saxophonists,” Josh Sinton has been heard with some of the leading voices of Brooklyn’s creative music scene since arriving there in 2004. He’s led bands as varied as his Predicate Trio/Quartet, musicianer and Ideal Bread as well as performing in the Nate Wooley Quintet, Anthony Braxton’s Tricentric Orchestra and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. He’s studied at the AACM while living in Chicago in the nineties, the New England Conservatory in Boston in the aughts and with friends and colleagues in NYC.
He performs regularly on his chosen instrument the baritone saxophone as well as on bass clarinet and alto flute. He also writes music (and words) when the occasion demands.
He is proud to count Ingrid Laubrock, Jonathan Finlayson, Tom Rainey, Jeremiah Cymerman and Guillermo Gregorio among his colleagues, and has also long been inspired by the specific and beautiful approach to free-form improvisation that has developed in the UK over the past sixty years.
Listen : joshsinton.bandcamp.com
Dominic Lash is a double bassist and guitarist who the Free Jazz Collective has called an “exceptional creative musician” He concentrates on improvised and experimental music, performing regularly with musicians such as John Butcher, Angharad Davies, N.O. Moore, and Mark Sanders. He also performed with the late Tony Conrad and Steve Reid, has had solo double bass pieces written for him by composers including Jürg Frey and Éliane Radigue, and has worked with bands and ensembles including Apartment House, Modern Nature, and the Bozzini Quartet. As an academic, he researches and writes about film.
Since the beginning of 2022 he has been based in Cambridge, where he organizes the Soundhunt improvised music series, with the guitarist N.O. Moore, on the last Sunday of every month at Thrive on Norfolk Street.
In 2015 he started a digital label for some of his more uncategorisable work, called Spoonhunt. Its first three CDs were released in 2021 and its fourth in 2022.
Listen : dominiclash.bandcamp.com
Alex Ward‘s diverse musical activities since the early ’90s have straddled the worlds of free improvisation, contemporary composition and avant rock, and have seen him collaborate with such significant musical figures as Derek Bailey, Lol Coxhill, Eugene Chadbourne, Thurston Moore, Joe Morris, Steve Noble, Evan Parker, Pat Thomas and Weasel Walter, amongst a host of others. He was an integral part of Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward’s acclaimed This Is Not This Heat project, and in 2021 he became a member of the legendary band Pere Ubu.
His work as a composer/bandleader has encompassed his own ensembles such as Predicate, Forebrace, the Alex Ward Quintet and Items 4, 6, 7 & 10, alongside collaborative projects such as his duos with Dominic Lash, Jem Doulton (as Dead Days Beyond Help) and Sean Noonan (as Noonward); while his solo releases have ranged from unaccompanied performances on clarinet and guitar to the layered studio creations found on 2021’s Gated.
He also now runs the long-standing London improvised music club Boat-Ting, continuing the work of its founder Sibyl Madrigal.
Listen : alexward.bandcamp.com
