TUESDAY 23rd February 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5
A night of film and music to celebrate the publication of a new LUX book/DVD MESSAGES: GUY SHERWIN.
3 films/ 3 musicians:
Filter Beds, 16mm film / John Edwards, bass
Flight, 16mm film / Steve Noble, drums
Views from Home Reviewed, digital
video/ Alan Wilkinson, saxophone
followed by a session of Edwards/ Noble/ Wilkinson.
A LUX event http://www.lux.org.uk
GUY SHERWIN was closely associated with the British avant-garde film movement centred on the London Film-Makers Co-operative in the 1970s. The recently published book and DVD 'Optical Sound Films 1971-2007' collects Sherwin’s ongoing work and research into one of his particular and recurrent concerns, the synaesthesic relationship
between sound and image manifest in the material of film sound. This new publication MESSAGES focuses on Sherwin's lyrical single screen films of the 80s and 90s and includes 5 films accompanied by a 60 page illustrated book designed by Paul Abbott with essays by Sherwin and child psychologist Nicholas Tucker.
ALAN WILKINSON comes blazing out of a saxophone tradition that includes the likes of Albert Ayler, Mike Osborne, Evan Parker, and Peter Brötzmann, yet with a highly vocalized and personal style. Possibly best known for the heavyweight Hession/Wilkinson/Fell trio, his other involvements have included Derek Bailey in duo and Company,
Stefan Jaworzyn, Sunny Murray, Alex Maguire’s ‘Cat O’Nine Tails’, Louis Moholo, Thurston Moore and Lee Ronaldo and Spring Heel Jack. A CD with a quartet featuring Brötzmann, Fell, and Kellers from 1997 was released recently. Other current projects include a duo and trio with Eddie Prevost (and Joe Williamson), and Spanish group ‘Laxula’. He
runs a regular free music club night in London called Flim Flam.
Since taking up the bass, JOHN EDWARDS has been involved with a diversity of musical styles and situations. At home in both composed and improvised music, he has rapidly become one of the busiest musicians on the London scene. Probably best known for his work with Evan Parker, John Butcher, Sunny Murray, Peter Brötzmann, etc., he has appeared in groups such as GOD, B-Shops for the Poor, and continues to collaborate with electro-acoustic composer John Wall, Spring Heel Jack, Fundamental and play in groups with Louis Moholo, Lol Coxhill, Ingrid Laubrock, and Charles Hayward, to name a few. He also performs solo and in 2008 released a CD of solo bass improvisations entitled VOLUME on the PSI label, to great critical acclaim.
Described as one of the UK’s most creative drummers STEVE NOBLE mixes the earliest jazz drum influences with a wide range of modern, global, and free styles. From playing with Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip, Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble - he went on to play with Derek Bailey (including Company weeks 1987/89/90) Alex Maguire, Tristan Honsinger, Pat Thomas a.o. performing throughout Europe, Africa and America. He leads the groups N.E.W - 4tet- the Shakedown club and a trio with Lol Coxhill/ Edwards. He occupies the drum seat in SFQ-Badland-Freebase-Gannets-Aethenor and Tim Hills ‘Tongues of Fire’. Noble also runs the recording label Ping Pong Productions.
This trio has become one of the hottest bands on the London scene, reaching a new and enthusiastic young audience for the music. Comprising three of the capital’s most experienced and hardest working musicians, they play ‘free jazz’ with one foot firmly in the European school of free improvisation, group music where the twists and turns are born exclusively out of intense listening and an almost intuitive creativity. However, their willingness to embrace a broad spectrum of styles is redefining traditional barriers and prejudices, making the music vibrate with a renewed sense of freedom.They have released two CDs OBLIQUITY (2007) and ‘LIVE AT CAFE OTO’ (2009) on the Bo’weavil label.
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