Monday 25 April 2022, 8pm
Fresh from touring Europe, Secluded Bronte return to Cafe Oto for their first UK concert since 2021. They preview new material from two forthcoming albums.
Secluded Bronte are Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman. They formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002. Other than saying that it is heterogenous it’s hard to classify their music. Elements of free improvisation,pop,spoken language, musique concrète, rock n roll and music-theatre can be heard, but Secluded Bronte are far too chameleonic for easy categorisation.
Secluded Bronte have toured in the United States and throughout Europe. They have recorded live sessions for BBC Radio 3, WFMU, Concertzender, and Resonance FM. Secluded Bronte have released six albums and two singles: Secluded in Jersey City (Pogus), Dark August Variations (Worm Records/K7-3), Ten Point Plan To Destroy Astrology (Singing Knives), For Entertainment Everyone Dies (Apolkalypso), Daughter Tunnel Sunlight (Ffordd Allan). In 2020 the group released three albums, two on the Ffordd Allan label, Magnetic Crochet and Queen's, and a third album, The Horns of Andromeda, on Takuroku.
The London Serpent Trio is a unique ensemble founded by early instrument maker Christopher Monk along with Alan Lumsden and Andrew van der Beek. Their first performance was given on 1st April 1976 in a lunchtime concert at St John’s Smith Square. The trio’s traditions are maintained by the three current members, Nicholas Perry, Andrew Kershaw and Philip Humphries. As there has never been another serpent trio, the choice of repertoire reflects the wide range of musical idioms in which the instrument has been utilised in widely differing contexts over its lifespan of more than four centuries.
