Monday 3 July 2023, 8pm
jb glazer is a cross-functional producer, composer, and dancer. The music of jb glazer is uncomfortable and comforting, live and pre-packaged. Somewhere between concrete and computer music, jb glazer’s practice comes from forcing collaboration between the internet and irl. His upcoming record on 33-33, Ur K?, merges these ideas further, squishing phone recordings through anime soundtracks and bassline to create a kind of.
He has previously released on Them There Records, Curl and most recently February's Everything is Heavy Rain, on his own label, glint music. He has previously collaborated with Bianca Scout, Elena Isolini, and Violence Grass Band.
Josh Curtis is a London based composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, specialising in electronic music.
His work combines songs and spoken narratives. Obliquely telling stories of the understated beauty of mundane and everyday life.
His live performance pulls threads from his studio work, combining with acoustic musicians to bring a new deconstructed, and semi improvised interpretation.
His band consists of:
Harry Mercer, an improvising guitarist, currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is involved in multiple projects on the emerging experimental music scene in London as both a sideman and bandleader, having performed at venues such as Barbican and Avalon Cafe.
Gabriel Francis-Dehqani, a London based cellist studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 as a soloist and with his piano trio, Trio Casella. He has won numerous awards from Countess of Munster, Help Musicians and Stephen Bell. He has performed at the London Jazz Festival and plays regularly with the Komuna Collective, funded my Arts Council England.
Lyle Burton, a drummer who is prevalent in the underground London music scene, having performed with artists such as Famous, Platonica Erotica and Ethan P Flynn.
Isaac Burland, an electric and double bassist currently living in London. Following the success of their 2021 tour of East Rudlington, Isaac has been increasingly involved in the improvised music and alternative electro-noise scenes, and will be releasing their debut album at the end of 2023.
Omri Kochavi and Joanna Ward are an experimental band whose performances range across contemporary classical work, pop covers, and improvisation. With backgrounds in contemporary composition and jazz, their duo practice has grown out of a friendship based on food, silliness, and trips to the seaside. For this set they will be premiering new work by each other as well as frequent collaborator Oscar Ridout, alongside some other stuff using guitars, voice, and pedals.
