Experimental music performance from the Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi with an opening set from Kenichi Iwasa.
Poster: Adélaïde de Alfaro
Doors 7pm
Tickets £12-18
Photography: Jordan Reyes
Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist & composer based in Los Angeles, who is perhaps best known for his extensive and incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Over the last decade he has established himself as one of the premier improvising musicians in Los Angeles, playing solo and in numerous collaborative projects. Shiroishi may well be considered a foundational player in the city’s vast musical expanse.
His recent album Forgetting is Violent, released on American Dreams, is his most immediate release yet, expanding the scope not just of his music but of his extramusical considerations. Forgetting is Violent considers racism as a whole, historical and ongoing, with the urgency it deserves. Here, for the first time, we hear Shiroishi joined by a supporting cast that reads like a who’s-who of heavy music: Aaron Turner (SUMAC, ISIS), Gemma Thompson (Savages), Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer), otay::onii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel), and Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE). The constant, as ever, is Shiroishi's patient, probing musicality, marrying heaviness and lightness, acceptance and defiance, both packing a punch and welcoming new listeners into the fold.
Kenichi Iwasa is a London based improviser and multidisciplinary artist from Japan. Also known for his legendary event Krautrock Karaoke night, he has collaborated with visual artists and musicians such as Beatrice Dillon, Maxwell Sterling and Linder Sterling.
He currently performs with Naima Karlsson under the name Exotic Sin and released LP on Blank Forms. Most recent live and recording collaborations have been with Neneh Cherry ,David Ornette Cherry, Tyson, Denardo Coleman, Rebecca Salvador, Alexis Taylor, Visio, Heith, ,Finley Clark, Lutto Lento, Blood Music