An evening of music with a trio set from John Edwards (bass), Caroline Kraabel (saxophone/voice) and Regan Bowering (drums), and a duo from Mike O'Malley (guitar) and Daniel S. Evans (turntable and electronics).
Doors 7pm
Tickets £8-12
John Edwards grew up in London and started experimenting with the bass guitar before he switched in his twenties to play double bass. He is deeply rooted in the creative free jazz and improvisation genre. Since the 80ties he is as soloist and in many groups and ensembles in Europe active and became one of the most renowned bass players. He played/plays regular for example with Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Roscoe Michtell, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Mark Sanders, Caroline Kraabel, John Butcher, Pat Thomas, Irène Schweizer, Hans Koch, Florian Stoffner, Gabriele Mitelli, John Dikeman.
"I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz."
- Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
Photo: Clement Kraabel
Caroline Kraabel (saxophone/voice) specialises in the challenging discipline of large-group free improvisation, founded on the equality of all participants. For individuals to have equal status and joy in improvisation, the freedom of each extends only to the ever-shifting points of the fruitful frontier at which it impinges on the next person’s. What awareness of power, responsibility, and limits will be necessary to make it possible for each of us to be equally free in our constantly evolving interactions?
How do we build individual confidence and collective trust to extend our exploration of sound to the greatest possible extent? Definitions and constraints relating to gender, race, class, sexuality, origins, money, etc. have been imposed on all of us – and indeed on musical forms – in order for those belonging to the ‘top’ categories to hoard prestige and power. We have all including those positioned at the top of these spurious hierarchies – been hurt by this. In our improvising, in our interplay of sounds and noises, let us treat each other as we would like to be treated, and avoid treating each other as we have been treated. This will open our ears to completely new sounds and musical structures as we use those confining experiences to make us more open, stronger, and better for each other: more curious, generous, confident, understanding, respectful, supportive, wild, brave, and free.
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Regan Bowering is a percussionist, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion, objects, amps, speakers, and feedback. Her debut album Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: 2 Movements (Feedback Moves, 2024) and Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers (Infant Tree, 2023). Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling was released in January 2026 on Infant Tree.
Mike O’Malley is a guitarist and producer based in London, best known for his work as part of the band caroline.
Daniel S. Evans is a multi-instrumentalist and producer based in London. He plays as part of the experimental folk groups Shovel Dance Collective, Sullow, and The Greater London Banjo Trio, and as Meanders in a duo with Jasper Llewellyn.