A great line-up featuring some of the most exciting musicians currently working in improvised music.


UTE KANNGIESSER / cello

Ute Kanngiesser is a German cellist based in London. Classically trained as a child, she turned to improvisation and experimental music while practicing physical theatre and dance in Berlin. Her strongest associations are with musicians around Eddie Prevost's workshop such as Jennifer Allum, Seymour Wright, Grundik Kasyanksy, Ross Lambert and Sebastian Lexer. She has also worked with AMM, John Butcher, Angharad Davies, Steve Beresford, Paul Abbott, Terry Day, Roger Turner, Lol Coxhill and Guillaume Viltard.

www.utekanngiesser.com




PAUL ABBOTT / drums

Paul Abbott has been a quietly innovative presence in London's improvised music scene for the last few years working with electronics and self-built instruments before more recently dedicating a good part of his energy to the radical potential of an unadorned drumset, notably as one third of lll人 with Seymour Wright and Daichi Yoshikawa - a trio that recaptures free jazz's original ability to simultaneously shock, confound and delight.

www.paulabbott.net




MICHAEL SPEERS / percussion, analogue electronics

Michael Speers is a musician currently based in London. Using feedback as the basis for most of his practice, he performs live with amplified percussion, tape loops and no-input mixer.

Michael Speers website




TOM WHEATLEY / double bass

Tom Wheatley is a Double Bass and Electric Bass player based in, and native to, London. He plays to open the bass – sonically and physically, musically and surgically. He is actively involved in the new music community of London, playing with Seymour Wright, Hebronix, Eddie Prévost, John Edwards, Cynthia, Paal Nilssen-Love, Guillaume Viltard and many others.




PASCAL NICHOLS

Pascal Nichols is a polymath; ceramist, drummer, composer, teacher, draughtsman, tattooist. He has exhibited work and performed internationally, and sells ceramics in Manchester. Most well-known for his work with Part Wild Horses Man on Both Sides, Nichols most recently released a stunning solo release this year - Nihilist Chakai House - on Discombobulate.