Sunday 14 August 2022, 2pm
A collaboration between musicians from The Sudan, members of The Scorpios 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.
Yasir Taha / guitar
Adam Bohman / amplified objects and strings
Osman Babo / percussion
Osman Mohammed / percussion
Sue Lynch / tenor sax/flute
Adam Bulewski / guitar effects
John Edwards / double bass
Adrian Northover / electronics + sax
Yasir Taha is based in Khartoum and performs with many ensembles in The Sudan. From his base in Khartoum he has helped form the London based Pyschedelic Sudanese Funk Band, The Scorpios.
He works in the Sudan National Band and the Sudan TV/Radio Band.
He is a member of the Sudanese Music Association, and has played many concerts in Europe with Dr Abdel Gadir Salam, Abdel Aziz Mubarak and Kabli.
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 Fluxus japery, musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation.
Osman Babo, percussion, 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.
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.
Tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute and composition. Sue Lynch currently runs ‘The Horse Improvised Music Club’ with Adam Bohman, Hutch Demouilpied and Adrian Northover.Performs with Adam Bohman, Eddie Prevost, Richard Sanderson, Anna Homler, Steve Noble, Crystabel Riley, Caroline Kraabel and Sharon Gal.
In 2016 she formed, ‘Paradise Yard’, an electro acoustic ensemble, featuring women improvisers, performing at Iklectik, Cafe Oto and The ICA. In 2018, she performed at 3 Klange Tag Music &Word Festival, Switzerland with Hildegard Kleeb, at Womad BBC Stage and, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival with Psychedelic Afro Beat Sudanese band, The Scorpios. Solo performance at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre 2019. Recent releases with FMR records with ‘Dial’, a quartet featuring, Sue Lynch, Dawid Frydyk, John Edwards and Dave Fowler and ‘Secant/Tangent’ (dxdy recordings) with Crystabel Riley and Nathan Moore.
https://suelynch.bandcamp.com/
Adrian plays soprano, sopranino and alto saxophones, and is based in London. He can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of musicians, including the London Improvisers Orchestra, as well as doing solo saxophone performances.
Adrian also works with film/sound and runs 'Ensemble Kino', a pool of musicians providing live music to film, as well as the yearly Triptik film night events, involving a stellar cast of improvisers.
As well as 'Jazz Thali' (Indo -Greek Jazz fusion) with Harvir Sahota (tabla) and Tasos Stamou (bouzouki), he can also be booked to play Bollywood tunes for weddings, either as solo sax on in a duo with tabla.
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, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and many others.
"I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz." - Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
