In Manchester next week, with Colours & Shapes, a movie about master improvisers John Edwards, Phil Minton and Steve Noble. Plus master improvisers Andrew Cheetham, David Birchall and Benedict Taylor. I’m playing a duo with master improvising dancer Shelley Owen. Looking forward!

In Vital Weekly 1152, Dolf Mulder reviewed the Subrahmanya release now out on Econore:

“(…) The improvisations vary in dynamics and textures. Weird over the top cacophony and ambient-like drones go hand in hand. His approach is very physical and aggressive. He improvises from a punk rock attitude with advanced technical skills. And above all with lots of power and musical ideas. Very interesting and fresh sounding stuff! Encore!”

New CD-r Subrahmanya is out on Econore! Three free flow improvisations and a recording of my set at Incubate 2014. Long time ago but still nice to hear. They Econore guys did a wonderful job with the packaging. Very limited edition, so if you want one get in touch quick, or order directly from the Econore bandcamp page.

Three shows in the coming week! Tomorrow a last minute trio at Neverland Cinema in Rotterdam, with Leo Svirsky and Dirar Kalash. Thursday a noise show at the Poortgebouw, also in Rotterdam. And finally saturday Riccardo Marogna and I drive to the deep south for a duo at the JazzBlazzt festival at OZO-Land. Yes!

Monday I’m hosting Myriads #22 already, at Helicopter, with the two tenor duo of John Dikeman and Dirar Kalash, snare attacks by Japanese drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu, and I’m playing a set with Leo Svirsky myself. Hope to see you!

Playing at OT301 twice this week. Tomorrow in a trio with Jonathan Nagel (double bass) and Tristan Renfrow (drums). Friday next week a duo with the one and only Maria Mavridou. Both as part of the Freakatoni Witchy Weekends, which are part of Katie Duck’s improvisation summer course.

Review by Ken Vos in Jazzism 3 – 2018 of the Fading Ground cd. In dutch; loosely translated: “The album has the character of a work in progress that holds a lot of promise and sounds intruiging, but also has quite some unpolished sides. This production is already of historical importance.” Nice!

Tomorrow at the Living Village Festival, with Maria Mavridou .. another chapter in our ongoing trip. Can’t wait! And if you’re at the festival, drop by and say hi!

Tomorrow another adventure in an ongoing trip with Maria Mavridou. At OT301, see https://www.facebook.com/events/1923647911279410/ for details!

Sunday Leo Svirsky and I play another duo at the Grondwater festival, at Studio Loos in Den Haag. Great line-up with interesting artists based in Den Haag.