Friday May 16th. 8pm. £4
Friday May 16th. 8pm. £4
Teun Verbruggen Duo + The Other Orchestra + Gate 33
Teun Verbruggen Duo
Teun (b.1975) first picked up the drums by age of 8. His father gave him his first pair of sticks and it felt like santaclaus gave him 200 presents. After banging telephonebooks and mothers pots and pans he studied at the music school for young little pain in the asses as him. Soon starting to hate Vibraphone and Timpani (also tambourine and triangle), he started more appreciatating the girl flute studends and tryed to impress them playing in his first spacerockband Mind the gap. After getting fed up with having to play always the same fills in rockbands he was getting interested in jazz-and improvised music. After two summercourses with dre pallemaerts he went to the concervatory of Brussels were he took lessons with Hans Van Oosterhout. Since graduating from this school in 1999 he started working as a sideman in lots of different bands and musical Styles. His searching for a personal touch and wanting to explore all possibilities of playing music and drums, his lack of boundaries and styles and trying to find fresh sounds and freedom in collectif improvisation made him work with: Alexi Tuomarila 4tet and Trio, Jef Neve Trio, FES, VVG trio, Karanova (featuring Kitchen Motors from Iceland and Mauro Pawlowski), Molo Trio, Jambangle, Rackham, Pascal Schumacher 4tet, 4, JojoBa, Streams,Silent Song, Jozef Dumoulin Trio,... On occasions he worked as a sideman with people as Erwin Vann, Jean Phillippe Viret, Edouard Ferlet, Erick Vloeimans, Anton Goudsmidt, Harmen Fraanje, Matts Eilertsen, Giovanni Mirrabassi, Paolo Fresu (with Jef Neve trio), Uri Cain (With FES), Michel Hatzi, Peter Hertmans, Natalie Lorriers, Diederik Wissels, Bart Defoort, Kris Defoort, Arif Durvesh (knitting Shawney), Kevin Armstrong, Pierre Vervloesem, Jan De Haas, Erick De Armas, Bart De Nolf, Manu Hermia, Sal La Rocca, Erik Vermeulen, Antton Walgraeve, Tom Wolf, Monsoon, Pieter Embrechts, Point Zéro, Cesarius Gadzina, Marco Locurcio,.... Being sideman was at a certan point not enough any more and he putted some own projects together with whom he wants to explore other ways of improvisation and playing music. Discovering Mike Pattons Fantomâs, Alas No Axis and Jim Black and other really cool bands got him hungry for more experiment with punk, noise, free and all that sort of things. Eager to explore other ways of playing drums and music gave following result: Hated by the jazzpolice and liked by myself and a few others!!!! Proudly Presenting: Othin Spake, an improvisation Trio with Mauro Pawlowski and Jozef Dumoulin. Futhark, an eclectic jazzband with Tobias Klein, Raphael Vanolie en Gulli Gudmundsson Nozzle Slag featuring Trevor Dunn (Fantomâs, Trio Convulsant, Electric Masada, Mr Bungle,...), Hilmar Jensson (Thyft, Alas No Axis,...) and Jozef Dumoulin. Teun tours a lot with some of these bands. Played on Festivals in Scandinavia, Australia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Portugal, Iceland, Canada, Japan, Bermudas, England, Tunesia, Marocco, France ... He was playing on the EuroJazzfestival in Greece with Alexi Tuomarila, Jef Neve, 4 and Pascal Schumacher and played on the same festival in Mexico City with Jef Neve. Teun Was also invited by Jazz Middelheim to open their 25 Jubileum Festival with the program called Around a Drummer and he also got a carte Blanche at the 2005 Time festival, Gand. Some of the bands won several Prizes like The Jazz Hoeilaert first Prize with Alexi Tuomarila, Tremplin jazz 1st Prize with Alexi and Pascal Schumacher and the Klara Muziekprijs with Jef Neve for their record its gone For the moment he recorded over 20 records as a sideman and is mixing and finishing work with his own bands.
(SO THERE YOU HAVE IT - from the horses mouth!)
The Other Orchestra
A wicked distillation made
up from an ecclectic cross section of the renowned Sheffield improv scene. Charlie
Collins (percussion), Beatrix Ward-Fernandez (electric violin / fx) , Mick Beck
(tenor sax / bassoon / whisltes), Glynn Heppenstall (electronics) and Jonny
Drury (elec. guitar / percussion / vocals).
A giant in contemporary jazz and improv, Mick Beck (tenor sax, bassoon,
whistles) has been working since 1980 in jazz, free music and as a composer
and club/ festival organiser. As a composer he looks for structures that can
diversify and strengthen the impact of improvisation; as an improvisor his aim
is to mix compelling rhythms, zaney melodies, changes of mood and flexibility
in playing techniques to explore new musical possibilities." Charlie
Collins (waterphone, gongs, cymbals, metal, snare drum, frame drums, mbiras,
cajon and balafon) has backgrounds in performance/improvisation and poetry/jazz
led to his involvement in the nascent '70s Industrial movement. He was a founder
member of ClockDVA and The Box, recording for cult labels Industrial, Fetish
and Doublevision as well as Go Discs, and has worked with vocalist Peter Hope
as both The Bone Orchestra and Flex 13. Since the 1980s he has played with numerous
musicians, including Derek Bailey, Mick Beck, Gino Robair, LaDonna Smith, Milo
Fine, Paul Hession, Julie Tippetts, Wally Shoup, Pat Thomas, Shock Headed Peters,
Geraldine Monk, Outward Sound Ensemble, Philip Thomas, Jezriley-French and Music
For One. Since 1994 he has been a member of industrial percussion group Left
Hand Right Hand and his record production skills have seen himbecoming house
producer for Martin Archer's Discus Records. He has also lectured on improvisation
at Nottingham Trent University. He continues to play with The Beatrix Ward-Fernanez
Trio (theremin/tuba/percussion) and Swift Are the Winds of Life (2violins/percussion)
and has recently toured the live soundtrack to Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1920's masterpiece
"Page of Madness". His long term working relationship with John Jasnoch
continues with The Navigators, ASK, The Balkh Trio (live interpretations of
poet Jalaluddin Rumi with vocalist Pete White) and the Para-Music Ensemble (with
instrument builders Scott Hawkins and Richard Head) He remains one of a handful
of musicians to have played both Company Week and Top of the Pops (with Moloko).
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez (electric violin / fx) "I play a wide variety
of music mainly concentrating on improvising.. The theremin is an important
part of my musical expression, using it on its own but also expanding the range
with the use of electronic effects.. I want to explore the outer limits for
the use of music, sound and words. All my pieces are unique creations born of
the space around me at the time. They are one with their environment seducing
the listener to a world not visited by others. I transmit their voices through
my playing giving them the freedom of that time and place.music. Glynn Heppenstall
(electronics) is from the Sheffield tradition of electro-industrialists and
an original member of Clock DVA (visual artist) and The Anti Group Conspiracy,
who took Berlin's famous Atonal Festival by storm in 1985. Also previously known
as 'Oskar M'. Presently Glynn is instrumental in the forming of various new
collaborations (The Tajalli Vortex, Sunshine Panic and TOO, as well as working
solo. Jonny Drury - (drums, percussion, guitar & fx, vocals) is an
experimental musician and visual artist from Sheffield, England. Solo and collaborations
with Glynn Heppenstall, Charlie Collins, Mick Beck, Martin Archer, Genesis P-Orridge,
Damo Suzuki, John Hackett. Full time Contemporary Fine Art student and founder
of Freenoise and Other Art. Founder member of The Tajalli Vortex, Sunshine Panic,
Sub-Merged and The Other Orchestra.
Last live in Sheffield 21st December 2007 with Whitehouse / Z'ev / Aufgehoben and more. details
Gate 33
Last played at Freenoise back in March 2006, also played live in Leeds, Manchester, Bulgaria, Spain, Czech Republic. Recently did a residency at Cyprus College of Art and is working on new audio from field recordings.
"Gate33 is a female UK based multimedia artist. Scribble Season is her latest offering, nine terse gobbets of sheer art noise samples. At times, as on "Edit,Undo", the sonic assault is more tedious than traumatic, like having your ears syringed with wet clay. But then, the gruelling relentlessness and tonnage of "Almas No Existe?" breaks through the hackles of your impatience like lava. More fun, however, are those tracks on which she deploys samples, however abruptly curtailed. "Edith Gabba" features a cheerful flurry of 40’s jazz sax that is quite gratuitously marmalised by an ancient blast of dusted-down Gabba, while Gate33 continues her pathological grudge against MOR on "Carpe Dieme", in which a light entertainment combo are annihilated instantaneously by laborotary-processed volleys of electronics. Most interesting of all is the relatively accessible "The Astrophysicist", in which she constructs a musical equivalent of the Atomium in Brussels around a taped chat with an astrophysicist, who, when asked how science crosses over into music replies, blankly, "It doesnt". - THE WIRE (UK)