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
Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer working across experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club music and hip-hop. Described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument,” Rezaei uses a digital vinyl system, allowing her to manipulate an expansive range of samples in real time using classic turntablist skills and her own innovative techniques.
The Anglo-Iranian virtuoso’s latest solo release FRACTURED (Heat Crimes) has been praised by The Wire, Uncut and Bandcamp Daily, and was one of The Quietus’ cassette releases of 2024. Rezaei is a member of the international free music supergroup The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, the pioneering Turntable Trio with Evicshen and Maria Chávez, 1984 with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and Sakina Abdou, and Fire! Orchestra.
Her co-composition with Matthew Shlomowitz, 6 Scenes for Turntable and Orchestra, was premiered at IMD Darmstadt 2023, while in October 2025, she premiered Scholar’s Record, a major commission for the 75th Donaueschinger Musiktage that draws on the legendary festival’s audio archives. Other recent projects include a collaboration with Ensemble Contrechamps and upcoming commissions from Ensemble Intercontemporain and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Other collaborators include Pat Thomas, Bill Orcutt, Jennifer Walshe, Edward George, Farida Amadou, Mats Gustafsson, Valentina Magaletti, Robyn Rocket, Thurston Moore, Lasse Marhaug, Evicshen, Fritz Welch, Raymond MacDonald, Lukas König, Okkyung Lee, Dali de St Paul, Kenosist and Ali Robertson.
