James O’Sullivan, a London based experimental guitar player and improvisor who employs a playful but meticulous approach to the instrument through the bringing together of physicality, resonance, detail, and dynamics. He seeks to co-create a rich, layered, and engaging music that entwines the excitement of the moment with a creative, focused exploration, to shape an enduring document of the guitar’s potential.
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Chris Hill, an improvising musician and sound artist. Based in London he regularly plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Eddie Prévost’s workshop group and collaborates and records with Ed Shipsey as Egg & Crisp, James O’Sullivan and Alan Newcombe as LUFT, Matt Atkins and co-ordinates Project 50:50 with Phil Morton.
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Alan Newcombe, a former member of the London Musicians Collective in the mid 80’s and since returning to live playing has been involved in MOWO, the Skronk sessions, the London Improvisation Workshop, Babble and Squeak, No Computers and the 50/50 project. More recent performances include a quartet with Eddie Prevost, Dominic Lash and NO Moore, a nonet curated by James O’Sullivan, and duos with Chris Hill and Keisuke Matsui.
‘Charlotte Keeffe is one of the most exciting improvisers in the UK, and her shows are in equal parts energetically joyous and delicately moving’ ~ Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Her passionate approach to freely improvising Music has been described by the UK’s biggest selling jazz magazine, Jazzwise, as ‘avant grade for all!’ Keeffe is inspired by abstract paintings and describes her trumpet and flugelhorn as Sound Brushes. ‘Keeffe shows notable strength of character as she runs the sonic and emotional gamut…’ ~ Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise
Her 2nd album, ‘ALIVE! in the studio…’ (Discus Music) features her RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Quartet, with Ashley John Long on double bass, Ben Handysides on drums and Moss Freed on guitar. ‘ALIVE! in the studio…’ received rave reviews and landed on several Best of 2023 Album Releases lists/charts, including Reader’s Digest Top Albums of 2023. Keeffe is part of the London Improvisers Orchestra, Caroline Kraabel’s Orchestra New, Noisy Women, Mopomoso’s creative team, (Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvising Music), Alex Ward’s Item series, Moss Freed’s Union Division, Sam Eastmond’s John Zorn’s Bagatelles, Colin Webster’s Large Ensemble, Olivia Murphy’s Jazz Orchestra and more. She co-leads Discus Music’s Hi Res Heart and Anthropology ensembles, composing for and performing alongside the likes of Pat Thomas and more. From performing a duet with the mighty City of London, as part of world-renowned trumpeter Dave Douglas’ Festival of New Trumpet Music, to stepping onto Glastonbury and Wilderness stages alongside Laura Mvula, Kate Nash and Charlotte Church, to serving as Assistant Musical Director of the London Gay Big Band, championing gender and diversity equality as part of the Parliamentary award-winning Women in Jazz Media team, and playing in Marin Alsop’s Taki Concordia Orchestra, Charlotte Keeffe understands that embracing individuality and letting go of inhibitions is the surest way to grasp the transformative power of Music!
www.charlottekeeffe.com
NO Moore is a musician whose interest in electronic sound and timbral manipulation combines with appreciation for the historical techniques for playing/abusing electric guitars. In short, he rocks. Notable collaborators, live and on record,
include Sue Lynch, Eddie Prevost, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Caroline Kraabel, Roger Turner, Dominic Lash, Rachel Musson, Steve Noble, Alan Wilkinson, Phil Durrant.
‘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: youtube.com/watch
Paul Margree is a sound artist and improvisor from London. A regular (ish) visitor to Eddie Prevost’s improvisation workshop sessions, he blends explorations of everyday objects with feedback systems to explore ideas of instability and stasis. He usually works under IVY NOSTRUM moniker but has been known to use his real name.
