Earshots release launch [MATINEE]


IKLECTIK presents,

Earshots release launch w/ Tom Mills, Ed Lucas, NO Moore, Rachel Musson & Steve Noble [MATINEE]

Saturday 15 April 2023 | Doors: 2:30pm | First Act: 3pm
Our Kiosk opens 1 hour before doors.

Tickets: £10 Advance / £12 OTD https://link.dice.fm/S481879e151e

To mark the release of 2 new recordings from Earshots: ‘Material Structures’, a profound work of electronic minimalism and structure by Tom Mills; and ‘Crushed Air’, a masterly exploration of electroacoustic improvisation from Ed Lucas, NO Moore, Rachel Musson, and Steve Noble.

Programme:
Tom Mills and Eddie Prevost duo
Ed Lucas, NO Moore, Rachel Musson and Steve Noble quartet

Tom Mills

Tom Mills is an electronic musician based in London. In addition to his solo work he plays Theremin in the group Bobhowler with Alicia Gardener-Trejo and Andrew Woodhead and also played on the album ‘Improvisers Inside Electronics’ alongside Antonio Acunzo, Tony Hardie-Bick and N.O Moore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0ZhQNgBcdE

Eddie Prevost

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Drummer and percussionist. Most noted for his work with AMM.
matchlessrecordings.com

Ed Lucas

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Ed Lucas plays trombone, augmented with controlled feedback, and has had many associations with improvising musicians in London and beyond. He is a cofounder of Earshots.
https://earshots.org/

NO Moore

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Guitarist/electronic sound composer. Has played and recorded with John Butcher, Henry Kaiser, Crystabel Riley, Eddie Prevost, Sue Lynch, Rachel Musson, and others.
dxdyrecordings.com

Rachel Musson

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Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, improviser and composer living in London, UK. She is involved with a variety of improvisation projects, and works regularly with Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas, Hannah Marshall, Julie Kjaer, Corey Mwamba, Olie Brice, Alex Ward, Alex Hawkins amongst others. She features on several releases, including a nonet featuring her composition ‘I Went This Way’ (577 Records), two with Shifa, feat. Pat Thomas and Mark Sanders, (577 Records), one with Mark Sanders and John Edwards (Two Rivers Records), trio with Liam Noble and Mark Sanders (Babel), and Corey Mwamba (Takuroku).
https://www.rachelmusson.com/

Steve Noble

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). He was featured in the Bailey’s excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. 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).

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