Presenting an evening of improvised music with a keen focus on traditional instruments, cross-cultural dialogue and creative collaboration.
Entry: £2 for musicians, £5 for everyone else
Upaj (oo-paj: in hindi it means to improvise) is a night run by Sarathy Korwar and I’klectik that aims to showcase experimental music and create an inclusive space for artists from different backgrounds to come together and feel comfortable playing music spontaneously.
The night hopes to connect like-minded artists and serve as a platform to further collaborations and music-making.
While the focus is on traditional musics, everyone is invited to share the space equally, from guitarists to guzheng players, poets to per…cussionists, bagpipers to balafon players, fiddlers to…
Running order:
The Geographers – 8pm
HAT JAM – 9pm onwards
The way the jam works is anyone who wants to play puts their name down on a piece of paper that in turn goes into a hat (if someone remembers to bring one). Anywhere between 2-4 names are randomly picked from the hat and those people get to play together for between 5-10 mins. Once everyone has played the jam opens up completely to anyone that wants to share the stage.
