MOPOMOSO Live Concert Series
MOPOMOSO was founded in 1991 by guitarist John Russell and pianist, trumpeter and composer Chris Burn to promote improvised music and where applicable its relationship to other forms of contemporary music making.
Since then we have presented over 300 concerts and a number of special events and workshops. Practitioners come from backgrounds in jazz, rock, folk, classical, electronic, world and computer generated music, with instrumentation covering everything from traditional to invented instruments. There have also been occasional collaborations with poetry, dance, film and performance art.
We hold a passionate belief that improvised music, sometimes called free music or free improvisation offers many exciting opportunities both to players and listeners alike.
Sunday 20 May
Mopomoso’s 21st anniversary year continues with an international line-up presenting some of the best in free improvisation.
Giorgio Albanese (accordion) / Ricardo Tejero (sax) / duo
Italian Albinese was noted as the most talented musician at the Umbria Jazz festival in 2009 and awarded a full scholarship to Berklee college of music. There followed collaborations with a.o John Tchicai, Steve Potts, Kent Carter, Gianni Lenoci and William Parker (with whom he has recently recorded a duo CD). Spaniard Tejero is well known to listeners in his adopted city of London where his intelligent approach makes him a highly valued contributor to the scene. His international connections have seen him playing in the USA, South America and Europe and he has recently returned from a Japanese tour. A real pleasure.
Sylvia Hallett (violin plus) /Anna Homler (voice) duo
Excellent Anglo-American duo whose CD ‘The many Shades of Bread and Shed’ is released to coincide with this appearance. Hallett’s atmospheric violin, electronics and ‘all things bowed’ never cease to enthrall and makes her an ideal partner for Californian vocalist Homler’s ‘landscapes of the imagination’.
“HOMLER is…making words musical and music like words.” — New York Times
“HOMLER seems to sing in the forgotten dialect from some past life or some past world… disconcertedly bewitching” — Cadence
Kay Grant (voice) / Matthew Ostrowski (electronics) / John Russell (guitar / Dave Solomon (drums)
New York based Ostrowski is a pioneer of electronic arts with an ‘interest in density of microevents, rapid change, and using technology to stretch the bounds of perception and experience’. As well as live performance recent installation projects have included the site specific Spectral City, shown in Germany and Japan, and Scarlet(t), a work based on the film “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” Joined by the fiery London based trio of Grant / Russell / Solomon, three musicians whose playing should need no introduction, we can expect a set of rapidly shifting and surprising exchanges underpinned by a shared sense of musical purpose. Not to be missed!
