Three Boxes And A Plus Sign album launch…
Duo : Graham MacKeachan & Zheng Hao (hulusis)
Trio : Raymond MacDonald (saxophone), Saadet Türköz (voice) & Steve Noble (percussion)
Doors 7.30 | music 8pm | entry £10
Raymond MacDonald is a saxophonist, composer and multidisciplinary artist whose saxophone playing has been described as “breathtaking”, “beguiling” and “wonderous” (All About Jazz). Collaborating with musicians such as Marilyn Crispell, Evan Parker, David Byrne, Jim O’Rourke, Günter ‘Baby’ Sommer and Satoko Fujii, he has released over 60 CDs and toured and broadcast worldwide. He has produced music for film, television, theatre and art installations and is a founder member of The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra -“One of the best large improvising ensembles in the world.” (BBC Jazz on 3).
Vocalist Saadet Türköz brings a dreamy perspective to Kazakh and Turkish traditional sounds, colours,and melodies, combining past and future, traditional and contemporary, dream and reality. Performing since the 1990s, Türköz has collaborated with many musicians across different continents, from folk to free improvisation.
Steve Noble is London’s leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O’Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more. In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90).
Zheng Hao
Born in Wuhan; based in London. Zheng Hao mostly uses electronics or electro-acoustic instruments for solo and group improvisation, while other times also makes unpleasant computer dance music. Enjoys gritty and gnarly textures as well as delicate, amorphous qualities in different sound and space.
Graham Mackeachan
MacKeachan works at the interface of administration, bar work, improvisation and nostalgia for a time before the internet. Today he plays the hulusi, a traditional Chinese free-reed wind instrument originating from Yunnan province, known for its soft, “silky” timbre.
