IKLECTIK presents,
The Horse Improvised Music Club
Tuesday 26 April 2022 | 8pm [7:30pm doors]
Tickets: £8 adv / £10 doors https://buytickets.at/iklectik/685788
Marilza Gouvea (voice, objects)
Charlotte Keefe (trumpet)
Gwendolene Kassenaar (painting,performance)
Faradena Afifi (violin, percussion, objects)
Sue Lynch (tenor sax, clarinet)
Paula Garcia Stone (electronics, objects)
Marilza Gouve
Marilza Gouvêa comes from a musical family in Brazil, her father playedclassical guitar and her grandfather was a maestro and music teacher.
From an early age she got involved with music: bossa nova and Brazilianpopular music.
Becoming involved in improvised music after coming to Europe, she has worked with many exponents of its artists such as Adrian Northover, Jim Dvorak, Terry Day, Phil Minton and Marcio Mattos. She has participated in various improvised music festivals such as the Acéfalo in Valparaíso, Chile and in Malaga, invited by Javier Carmona, the Casa Invisible festival. In Rio de Janeiro at the Audio Rebel festival. Her use of the voice as an expressive sound source is both dramatic and unique.“…experimenting in different ways with her voice, understood as a powerful and most natural means of generating sounds: whispers, moans, songs, declamations, sobs and sighs were part of her technical arsenal, to which she added passages with the ocarina…”
ROCKAXIS, Santiago, Chile
Faradena Afifi
Curator of “The Noisy Women Presents’ and “The Noisy People’s Improvising Orchestra” – Bowed string instruments, movement, voice, piano and percussion. She is a community musician, a busker and folk musician. A community musician since 2006 and a T’ai Chi instructor since 2004; she specialises in healing music and T’ai Chi based exercises for people with dementia, learning difficulties and brain injuries. She started performing improvised gigs during lockdown 2020. As a result of jamming online with Maggie Nicols, who introduced her to the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra (GIO) and the Improvising Ensemble (IE). From then she performed with GIO, London Improvisers Orchestra and as part of Maggie Nicol’s Creative Liberation Orchestra in Stockholm. She is in duos with
Maggie Nicols and Steve Beresford. And in the quartet, The Noisy Women with Maggie Nicols, Marion Treby (piano) and Gwendolyn Kassenaar. She has recently founded an improvising orchestra, who are making their debut in Cambridge in July.
https://faradenaafifi.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNaedkKjaEKqvLIumjhy0TA
www.grey-heron.com
Gwendoline Kassenaar
Gwendolyn Kassenaar is a Dutch visual artist & performer based in London. A graduate from Chelsea
College of Art, she collaborates with dancers and musicians in her live-art performances and studio-based work. She improvises in the moment to express the intangible poetry of that ephemeral moment. She embraces experimentation in her quest to fuse visual art, rhythm, colour, sound and movement.
Gwendolyn’s art is known for her bold, gestural strokes and vibrant use of colour. Recently it has been shown at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, Vortex Jazz club and in a solo exhibit in Shoreditch. It features on album covers and in private and corporate collections in the UK and abroad. An active participant in the London jazz scene, she is resident artist and curator at Freedom (Vortex), avant-garde Skronk and Melifera (HYG). Recent Gallery; a multi-disciplinary performance at the Hundred Years Gallery including a poetry recital; and a duet with internationally renowned Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang at SOAS. She co-founded the new Noisy Women series with Faradena Afifi and Maggie Nicols. Their recent launch received critical acclaim in The Wire magazine.
https://www.instagram.com/gwendolynkassenaar/to view latest work.
Performances include a large live-painted mural in Shoreditch with dancer Petra Haller, commissioned byOTZ
Paula Garcia Stone
From a long tradition of Fine Art practice, I now divide my creative output between soundscape composition and my visual works, which are small whereas sound can occupy a physically large space. With a focus on the human presence, even in its absence, through sound and experience, I explore aspects of being in a particular space, situation and/or state of mind. For me improvisation plays a role in making fixed composition. I have played with improvisor musicians – Sue Lynch, Richard Sanderson and Charlotte Keeffe. My instruments for this occasion are field recordings from my larder of sounds, iPad, glass with straw, and a Rainstick. I have performed at South Bank Centre, Horse Improv events, Iklectik, Hundred Years Gallery, Resonance fm, Arts Cafe and at the Loudspeaker Orchestra University of Greenwich.
Solo albums: ‘Undercurrent’, Linear Obsessional label 2019 & ‘A Long Wait’, Flaming Pines label 2021.
www.paulagarciastone.com
https://soundcloud.com/cellsonance
https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/node/64218
https://vimeo.com/cellsonance
Charlotte Keefe
Charlotte Keefe by Robert Crowle British musician, trumpeter/flugelhorn player Charlotte Keeffe’s passion for free improvisation, jazz and experimental music-making sees her performing regularly as a soloist and leading a variety of different ensembles, including her own Quartet (The) Charlotte Keeffe Quartet (CKQ) performed a sellout performance at Lancaster Jazz Festival in 2019 and their live recording from Jazz in the Round has been featured on radio shows around the world. Her Quartet is Ashley John Long (Paul Dunmall collaborator) on double bass, Ben Handysides on drums, Moss Freed (Let Spin) on guitar and herself on trumpet and flugelhorn; they explore
merging together Charlotte’s more composed music with freely improvising.
Fresh from playing London’s Café OTO, Newcastle, Birmingham, Sheffield and the London Jazz Festival; CKQ are delighted to be continuing their UK tour in 2022, celebrating the release of Charlotte’s debut album, Right Here, Right Now, which features a selection of her improvised works for solo, duo, quartet and (the) London Improvisers Orchestra, it’s out now on the Discus Music record label.Charlotte is involved in several Discus Music projects as a composer and performer, including; Hi Res Heart, French singer Carla Diratz’s The Scale, Julie Tippetts’ upcoming release and Anthropology Band with Jazz FM’s Gold Award winner Orphy Robinson MBE, Chris Sharkey, Pat
Thomas, Anton Hunter and Martin Archer.
Sue Lynch
Sue Lynch studied fine art at Coventry College of Art. She currently runs ‘The Horse Improvised Music Club’ with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover.
She performs with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Richard Sanderson, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel, Anna Homler and Sharon Gal.
She has recently performed as part of Tarek Atoui’s ‘Reverse Collection’ at The Tate Modern. She performs with the Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’.
In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’-an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performance at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre 2019. Recent release with FMR records with ‘Dial’,a quartet featuring, Sue Lynch, Dawid Frydyk, John Edwards and Dave Fowler and ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore.
www.suelynch.wordpress.com
www.soundcloud.com/sue-lynch-2
www.suelynch.bandcamp.com
www.horseimprovclub.wordpress.com/
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