Live events
3 OCTOBER
Kimmo Pohjonen Earth Machine Music
Concrete and Glass
Café 1001, Shoreditch
Kimmo brings together farmers from North Devon and Oxfordshire for this special performance of music from the Earth Machine Music tour produced by sounduk in May 2008.
NOVEMBER
Christian Wallumrød Ensemble – UK Tour
A sounduk production
Christian Wallumrød: piano, Nils Økland: violin / hardangerfiddle, Arve Henriksen: trumpet, Per Oddvar Johansen: drums
This beautiful, purely acoustic piano quartet brings together four of Norway’s most distinctive and creative musicians.
Embracing the space between classical, folk and jazz, Wallumrød’s evocative compositions perfectly capture the distinctive, delicate sound worlds peculiar to these exceptional musicians.
Tour Dates
27 November BRISTOL St George’s
28 November OXFORD Holywell Music Room (Oxford Contemporary Music)
29 November LEEDS Seven (Leeds Jazz)
30 November MANCHESTER, Royal Northern College of Music
14 November - Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Jazz Festival
Dhafer Youssef, Peter Herbert, Satoshi Takeishi
with Joanna MacGregor and Britten Sinfonia
Featuring music by Dhafer Youssef, Bartok and Arvo Pärt
DECEMBER
5 December Norwegian Embassy Christmas Concert
St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square
Tord Gustavson Trio & Ingebjørg Kosmo
5 December sounduk at Toynbee Studios
Leafcutter John & Fulborne Teversham
7.30pm £12 / £10 concessions
Fulborn Teversham are the mindblowing new group of Seb Rochford, the extraordinarily in-demand and prolific drummer/composer, leader of Mercury Music prize nominees Polar Bear, and winner of BBC Jazz award for Rising Star 2004.
Fulborn Teversham pursue a more eclectic, and less overtly jazz direction than Polar Bear, or indeed Rochford’s other acclaimed group, Acoustic Ladyland, incorporating elements of electronica, Henry Cow-style prog and post punk. With clever balancing of cosmic and acoustic sounds, Seb Rochford (drums), Nick Ramm (Nord synthesizer), Pete Wareham (saxophones), and Alice Grant (vocals), set up an intimate and thrilling improvisational punk jazz chamber music for the future.
"This is not nu jazz, acid jazz, Jamie jazz, Parky jazz, Brit jazz, beardo jazz,post-jazz or twee jazz. It's dream jazz." Observer Music Monthly
Leafcutter John’s music draws listeners into a tiny world; one where delicate sounds become intensely dramatic, where subtlety is power and where bewitching melodies haunt. Joined by singer Alice Grant and cellist Joe Zietlin Leafcutter’s live show is like no other.
"Alongside Aphex Twin and Bogdan Raczynski – he's [Leafcutter John] one of the UK's most fearlessly inventive electronicists. … a striking hybrid of pastoral songcraft, glitch, field recordings and traditional Greek instrumentation that goes far beyond ‘folktronica', running the gamut of moods from sweetly mournful to darkly malevolent." Time Out
14 December sounduk at Toynbee Studios
Mary Hampton & Jim Moray
7.30pm £12 / £10 concessions
At the age of 21 Jim Moray was hailed “…the greatest leap forward in folk for 30 years” (The Daily Telegraph). Amongst other extravagant claims, his debut album ‘Sweet England’ was called “the most significant new development in English folk music since Fairport Convention's Liege and Leif.” (Uncut) and “a revolutionary experience” (HMV Choice). Critics worldwide fell over themselves to tip Moray for great things and after a gap of 5 years Moray has stunned the press again with Low Culture, an album that brings the folk tradition into the 21st Century.
‘With his laptop and electric guitar Jim Moray helped transform the British folk revival…he’s no longer on his own out there but is singing better than ever and [he] can still surprise.’ ★★★★ The Guardian
Mary Hampton has been propelled into the limelight after several years fine tuning her craft of exquisitely fragile vocals and incisive song-writing. Her debut album has been unanimously praised across the media, from Mojo to Songlines
‘coffee-table-shattering purity...these are songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting" ★★★★ Uncut