Hey! Ho! Let’s Go! Late call, a sudden burst & Sunday service of sound & motion.

Flash show of improvised music. Announced with ten days to go for those on the pulse. A Cube bar room special.

Vava Maudit, the frenetic grind folk punk improv duo from Switzerland pass through Bristol in a surge of crashing drums & wild woodwind.

Something of the collapsing street procession music of the Guatemalan brass group San Lucas Band, the free spirit of Don Cherry’s Organic Music & circular breath of Evan Parker’s saxophone with Beefheart's trout mask thunder.

Active across Europe including dynamic collaborations with trumpeter Silvan Schmid, Brazilian harpist Marina Mello & modular synth player Ilia Belorukov. Vava Maudit have released a self-titled EP on Mexico City-based label Silencio EPI. The duo is Zurich-based Alex Riva with recorders & voice, who has released work on Glasgow’s Scatter Archive & Chicago’s Notice Recordings & Gabriel Valtchev whose kinetic drumming has driven projects such as ublo, Fairuz for Lunch & Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp.

This is a rare UK tour that has been supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.

Tim Hill lives in Somerset and makes noise drawing on groove-based free improvisation, traditional music and ritual sound. He plays various saxes, clarinets, toys and bits and pieces. He also creates outdoor celebrations, theatre and street music, revelling in traditions of ritual, processions, street bands and folk noise. He  has played with samba bands around Stonehenge, on the back of trucks at Notting Hill Carnival, led giants through the streets of London, Dublin and Galway, cooked celebratory feasts, written wassail songs, and led funeral services. He also makes funny noises in the back of pubs and other nooks and crannies. His musical world was shaped by Ornette Coleman’s free jazz, post punk energy, No Wave, free improv and  dub.

He has played with some of the figureheads of the British free music scene such as Mike Cooper, Derek Bailey, Steve Noble, John Edwards & Pat Thomas. He leads the street band Tongues of Fire, noise trio The Noise Eating Monsters and is a stalwart of the Bristol improvised music scene, including a trio with Raph Clarkson & Matthew Grigg. With the Mellstock Band he recreates English rural music, appearing in many TV and film productions including the classic BBC Pride and Prejudice. Recently he has been creating soundscape and drone material, in the duo Swine, and with Colin Potter and Jonathan Coleclough. He is currently working on a series of solo projects inspired by our Island dreamtime. His most recent release is Leviathan Whispers on the Buried Treasure Label.

“muscular playing… somewhere between Johnny Hodges and Dudu Pukwana” – Phillip Clarke, The Wire

A meeting of European DIY improvised music with our own free music makers and a celebration of the Cube community & making space.