Saturday 15 August 2026, 7.30pm
Adam Bohman, Crystabel Efemena Riley and Sue Lynch have been performing as a trio since 2017, when they first got together as ‘You, Me and Sue’ to perform as part of The Horse Improvised Music Club. Performing here as a trio, to celebrate their latest CD release on Café Oto OTOROKU label, Lynboril, Lisinopril!
Catford to Khartoum is a collaboration between musicians from The Sudan and London based experimental improvisers. First recorded in a studio under London’s Westway at the end of 2021, the band combines traditional Sudanese grooves with contemporary experimental urban landscapes.
Catford to Khartoum:
Osman Babo / percussion
Adam Bohman / amplified objects and strings
Adam Bulewski / guitar effects
John Edwards / double bass
Sue Lynch / tenor sax/flute
Osman Mohammed / percussion
Adrian Northover / electronics + sax
Yasir Taha / guitar
Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.
During the late noughties Crystabel Efemena Riley toured Japan and Europe using drums, electronics and make-up in power-noise trio Maria and the Mirrors. This was the start of her interest in patterns on skins — human and drum. An interest in dimensional patterns existing on (and off) different skin surfaces, exploring the idea of 'care and uncare': layered skins, recycled drum skins, smetled sculptures, other metallics and electronics. Crystabel has been a long-term collaborator with Sue Lynch who welcomed her into the Horse Improvised Music Club and later played in the London Improvisers Orchestra. She is currently working on the multi-format duo project @xcrswx with Seymour Wright, together they created the sounds for Edward George’s Black Atlas film at the Warburg Institute.
Sue Lynch works as an experimental saxophonist and a visual artist. She curates The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover. Performs with Psychedelic Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’. Has performed at 3 Klange Tag Festival, Switzerland with Hildegarde Kleeb, Womad BBC Stage, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performances at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre, SuperNormal Festival 2025 and collaboratively at Light Sounds Festival 2024.
Releases include, ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdyrecordings) with Crystabel Efemena Riley and N.O. Moore, ‘Blue Tapes-Minaru’,with LA based artist Anna Homler as featured in an interview in October 2023 Wire Magazine on bluetapes.bandcamp.minaru. 'Sax & Drums' on Scatter archive with Regan Bowering and ‘Orbit-Son’ with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson and Adam Bohman on the Infantree Label. Upcoming release with Adam Bohman and Crystabel Efemena Riley on Café Oto label OTOROKU.
Yasir Taha came from during the war in Khartoum 2023 to London. He has performed with many ensembles in The Sudan. From his base in Khartoum he helped form the London based Pyschedelic Sudanese Funk Band, The Scorpios. He worked with the Sudan National Band and the Sudan TV/Radio Band.
He was a member of the Sudanese Music Association and played many concerts in Europe with Dr Abdel Gadir Salam, Abdel Aziz Mubarak and Kabli.
Osman Babo is based in London and currently performs with The Scorpios for international Festivals, including The Guess Who Festival (Utrecht), The End Of The Road Festival and Womad. He is a member of the Sudanese Music Association and has toured extensively in Europe.
Osman Mohammed is based in London and currently performs with The Scorpios for international Festivals, including, The Tusk Festival, The Guess Who Festival (Utrecht), The End Of The Road Festival and Womad. He is a member of the Sudanese Music Association and has toured extensively in Europe.
Adrian is based in London, plays alto and soprano saxophone, and is involved in music production.He can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of musicians, as well as solo saxophone performances.
He has made recordings with B Shops for the Poor, The Remote Viewers, Sonicphonics (with Billy Bang), The London Improvisers Orchestra, Ensemble Trip-Tik, Anna Homler,
John Edwards, The Custodians, and CD’s with Adam Bohman, Tasos Stamou, Daniel Thompson, Marcello Magliocchi, Bruno Gussoni and many others.
He has performed at many international festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Sound Symposium, Victoriaville, Leipzig Jazz Festival, Tallin Festival, Arkangel Jazz, Freedom Of The City, Bari Jazz and others.
http://www.adriannorthover.co.uk/
Adam Bulewski-musician and producer for Sudanese band the Scorpios and Firefay. Particularly interested in exploring how new cultural forms can be created via music and how music can express the unconscious. Through a unique vision, he has produced recordings and ensembles, which have brought together musicians from diverse backgrounds.
John Edwards is 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, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke, Jonny Greenwood and countless others.
"I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz." - Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
