Monday 19 January 2026, 7.30pm
Following the acclaimed success of RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW’s second album ALIVE! (Discus Music) ~ praised by critics, featured across multiple “Best of 2023” lists, and celebrated in ‘Reader’s Digest’s Top Albums of 2023 ~ the ensemble now jumps into a bold new collaboration.
CIRCLES, RHRN’s forthcoming third album, draws on Charlotte Keeffe’s fascination with music ~ like life ~ being full of precious cycles and circles. To expand these ideas with electrifying imagination, RHRN is thrilled to welcome “the Madonna of the Turntables,” Mariam Rezaei, whose fierce creativity makes her a natural force for what’s to come...
Widely recognised as one of the UK’s most exciting improvisers, Charlotte Keeffe continues to astonish audiences; her performances are “in equal parts energetically joyous and delicately moving” (Cheltenham Jazz Festival). Within RHRN, she passionately leads a thriving laboratory of squelchy, sploshy, splashy Sound Brush (trumpet+/flugelhorn+) explorations ~ a space where gestures, textures, colours, and emotions are continuously unearthed.
“Keeffe shows notable strength of character as she runs the sonic and emotional gamut...” ~ Kevin Le Gendre, Jazzwise
Perhaps most thrilling of all: you are invited into this world. Audience members and listeners are warmly encouraged to become part of the soundscape ~ joining Keeffe, Ashley John Long, Ben Handysides, Moss Freed, and Mariam Rezaei with your voices, instruments, objects, toys, sketch pads... anything you wish. Together, you’ll help shape the circles, cycles, connections and wholeness at the heart of this music ~ Creative Freedom For All.
As Jazzwise declared, Keeffe’s work is “avant-garde for all!” ~ and RHRN’s new ventures seem certain to carry that ethos even further.
Charlotte Keeffe / sound brushes (trumpet and flugelhorn) and compositions
Ashley John Long / double bass
Ben Handysides / drums
Moss Freed / guitar
Mariam Rezaei / turntables
Described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument,” Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer. Working at the nexus of experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club musics and hip-hop, Rezaei uses a digital vinyl system, allowing her to manipulate an expansive range of samples in real time. Her work has been described as “genuinely ground-breaking” (London Jazz News 2022) and “high-velocity sonic surrealism” (The Guardian 2022). Praised by The Wire, Uncut and Bandcamp Daily, her latest release FRACTURED (Heat Crimes) is one of The Quietus’s cassette releases of 2024.In November 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists in recognition of her contribution to music composition. She previously led experimental arts projects TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and is writing a book on turntablism for Repeater.
In addition to her solo work, Rezaei’s projects include a Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez (making their US premiere at Big Ears 2025), supergroup The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (with saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, trumpeter/electronics Gabriele Mitelli and drummer Lukas Koenig), and orchestral compositions with Matthew Shlomowitz (6 Scenes for Turntable and Orchestra). She recently performed Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music with guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe. Other collaborations include duos with Jennifer Walshe, Edward George, Farida Amadou, Valentina Magaletti, Lasse Marhaug, Evicshen, Lukas Koenig, Mette Rasmussen, Gabriele Mitelli, Okkyung Lee and Ali Robertson, Black Top with Pat Thomas, Orphy Robinson, Cleveland Watkiss and Leon Foster Thomas, and a quartet with DJ Sniff, Rex Chen and DJ SlowPitchSound at Taipei Biennial 2023.
