support by Ute Kanngiesser & Dale Berning

(Thu 8th / 8pm / £6 adv)

Soundklatsch presents another night of rare delights from the outer edges of musical expression.

Fresh from headlining Austria’s Kaleidophon festival come the trio of
Wilkinson/Noble/Edwards, whose recent release ‘Obliquity’ on Bo Weavil received rave reviews from The Wire and Plan B magazine. Channelling the fire and energy of free jazz through the extended techniques of free improvisation and a raw post-punk ethos they create a explosive, exhilarating, revelatory noise that fuses unrelenting intensity with balletic poise and physicality. Foom! Foom! FOOM!
Support comes from the duo of Ute Kanngiesser and Dale Berning, who combine cello, music boxes, electronics, small instruments, objects and voices to produce work which hovers somewhere in the space where noise slips into music, composition blurs improvisation, stillness fades to movement, the familiar rubs up against the strange, and silence touches sound.

"Saxophonist Alan Wilkinson's clearly been digging his old Albert Ayler albums, letting rip with insane shrieks and strangled cries that don't so much carry a tune as plug right in to the raging essence of uninhibited, animal
self-expression. But raw and ragged as it is, there's a world of telepathic, lightning-quick interplay at work here too. Bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble follow the ebb and flow of Wilkinson's outpourings, turning up the heat at the flick of a switch to create great boiling maelstroms of pure noise mayhem and dropping out at just the right moments into stretches of headlong, urgent free swing. It's jazz alright, but you won't hear it on Parkinson." - Plan B magazine