IKLECTIK presents:
Saturday 18 Nov | doors 8pm – Music 8.30pm
£7 Adv – £10 door BUY TICKETS
Paulo Dias Duarte
Portuguese award winning composer whose career started in the mid nineties. He won the “Young Creators Prize” in 1996 and represented Portugal and the international art show, Torino 97. He later went on to win the prize “Young Creators” again in 1999.
After his classical guitar studies, Paulo moved to London to study jazz at Middlesex University (B.A and P.G.C.E.). In 2014 he finished a Masters in Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance.
Paulo has written for Contemporary Dance, Theatre and Cinema and throughout the years has developed many musical projects with different constellations. Amongst these there is a special relevance to the “OverGround Collective Big Band” and “The Stolen Project”
Paulo is currently a soloist composer at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark.
Rachel Musson
Saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, including a trio with Hannah Marshall and Julie Kjaer, a duo with vibraphonist Corey Mwamba, and a trio with Mark Sanders and John Edwards. She has released two albums under her own name, one featuring Liam Noble and Mark Sanders (Tatterdemalion, Babel Records), and one featuring her ensemble Skein (Flight Line, F-ire Recorded Music). She also plays with the London Improvisers Orchestra and Alex Ward’s Quintet and Sextet, and has performed with a diverse range of musicians on the fluid European improvising scene, including Alcyona Mick, Han Bennink, Liam Noble, Gail Brand, Eddie Prevost, Olie Brice, Federico Ughi, Mary Halvorson, John Russell, Adam Linson, Sebastian Rochford, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Pat Thomas, among many others.
John Edwards
A true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and many others. “I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz.” – Richard Williams, The Blue Moment.
Steve Noble
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 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. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins)
