PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES

Kelly Jayne Jones – Flute/voice/tape/electronics

Pascal Nichols – Drums/Voice/electronics

Part Wild Horse's Mane On Both Sides formed in 2007 in Manchester.

"Percussionist Pascal Nichols and flautist Kelly Jones have minted a profound new form of improvisation that carves spectral shapes from silence and creates free music with a spare orchestral beauty and deep psychedelic atmosphere. Augmenting their instruments with electronics, tapes and old military communication systems, they expand the basic free jazz format with drones, feedback and zoned vocals, taking the Cherry/Blackwell duets and relocating them upwind of the alien soundtracks generated by Japan’s Taj Mahal Travellers." Volcanic Tongue 'Tip of the Tongue 2011.

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides 'Sixth Samovar' sample b by Rayon Recs

Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides work and expand on the flute/percussion format, taking a spiritual, freely improvised approach to music and sound. They have lately worked on collaborations with visual artists Haris Epaminonda and Veronica Ibarra, resulting in exhibitions at Site Gallery (UK), The Tate Modern (UK) and SCHIRN Kunsthalle (DE).

Jones and Nichols have made music and sound with and as Drapeau Noir (with Chora and Hunter Gracchus), Shiggajon (Danish free music collective), Christian Munthe, Time Life, Famoudou Don Moye, Arrington Dionysios, Bill Kouligas, Hobo Sonn, Duncan Harrison, Stuckometer, Motherfucking, Open Eye Ensemble, Mick Beck, Diatribes, Chora, CKDH, Acrid Lactations, The Whole Voyald, Guillaume Viltard, Simon Rose, Zweiters, Usurper, White Death, Helhesten, the A Band,C Joynes and more.

BOLIDE

Bolide is an electro-acoustic improvising sextet, formed in Brighton, UK, in 2007. Originally coming together under the name Bolide Awkwardstra for a one-off performance at the Colour Out of Space festival, the group has so far failed to disband. Somewhere along the way, it was decided that awkwardness and poor spelling should no longer be a barrier to progress. Bolide is not, and never has been, a youthful project. There is no foreseeable reason for activities ever to cease.

“Gonzo free music and guerrilla jazz from this drug and ale gorged Brighton sextet. A lot of reeds, tapes, percussion, vocal hollerin’ and the likes all captured in mysterious crud-fidelity. Come and enjoy this unseasoned brew.” - Dylan Nyoukis of Chocolate Monk on ‘The Authority of Omar.’

“The usual shorthand on Bolide is that they’re a free-jam free-jazz mind-loosened collective, but their reach often goes way beyond this.  Much like laying a pile of Smegma vinyl and that gorgeous Ayler boxset on top of each other in the summer sun and then playing it, Bolide do the refined jam thing.  Across this handful of jams, that all come under the “Winter Triptych” banner, Bolide dip into violin droning, saloon piano and fire(-damaged) music, but they still sound like there is a sense of direction.  It’s not exactly anything goes, but it’s not far off.” - Scott McKeating, Foxy Digitalis, on ‘Winter Triptych’

Bolide website