Rubble is raining down, sonic dust sticking to it. One note appears from under blurts and crackles: It is never long enough. Then more notes crop up, they get ricocheted from the walls, they get obscured and disclosed again, before being buried and reinstated… Klaus Bru and Nathan Moore heard and got to know each other in Eddie Prevost’s long-running improvisation workshop. While coming from different musical worlds, both are preoccupied with exploring and extending the sonic possibilities of their instruments.
Doors 7:30 | music 8pm | £10 cash on the door
The first half of the concert will be two solo sets. The second half will be an extended duo of dronish improvisation.
Expect meandering soundscapes, balladesque excursions, angularity, and sweetness in an astonishing array of sounds you wouldn’t have thought to come from a guitar and a saxophone.
Klaus Bru (electric C Saxophones):
Klaus Bru, one of the few saxophonists to exclusively play the rare C-Melody and C-Soprano saxophones, studied Jazz Saxophone at the Music University in Graz/Austria. He has been living in Vienna, Berlin, Taipei, and Beijing, and working in a wide range of musical situations. Since settling in London in 2015, he has played an active part in London’s vibrant free improvisation scene and given numerous improvised solo concerts.
In the past, Klaus Bru co-lead the world music improvisation ensemble KaDaoYin from Taipei, which won several awards and played concerts and festivals in France, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.A. With his jazz trio “I Have A New Band Now” he toured in Europe and China. Klaus Bru was also a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra.
Collaborators include Marc Ribot, Sunny Murray, Jojo Mayer, David Friesen, Daiguo Li, Shiyang Lee, Li-Chin Li, and more recently in the UK Cleveland Watkiss, Orphy Robinson, Charlotte Keefe, Terry Day, Beibei Wang, Steve Beresford, Mandhira de Saram, Mark Sanders, Rob Luft, Mike de Souza, Phelan Burgoyne.
Nathan Moore (electric guitar):
Nathan Moore is an electric guitarist informed by improvisation, rock, jazz, and modern classical and electronic music. Notable collaborators, live and on record, include Sue Lynch, Eddie Prevost, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Caroline Kraabel, Roger Turner, Dominic Lash, Rachel Musson, Ray Russell, Steve Noble, Alan Wilkinson, Phil Durrant. He has played at venues such as Iklectik, The Vortex, Café OTO, Hundred Years Gallery, and the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music.
Some Quotes: ‘Moore shifts fluidly from argumentatively fractured jazz licks to spacey atmospherics to mad cat hisses; the appositeness of his contributions belies the sparseness of his recorded discography’ The Wire
‘Moore unpacks an impressive bag of tricks.’ Jazzwise
‘Guitarist N.O. Moore would likely attract some attention in any fit company, for he brings a highly personal conception to an instrument often sullied by redundancy.’ Free Jazz Blog
Recent solo performance (December 2024)
Select discography
Darkened, yet shone (2018 Matchless) with John Edwards and Eddie Prévost
Nous (2020 Matchless) with Jason Yarde and Eddie Prévost
Under the Sun (2022 Matchless) with Olie Brice, Rachel Musson and Eddie Prévost
Fulcrum (2024 Shrike) with Olie Brice, Rachel Musson and Steve Noble
With the London Experimental Ensemble:
Child Ballads (2019 Split Rock) (including collaboration with Richard Thompson)
Dark after Dark (2021 577) (collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair)
