Ishmael Ensemble return to the Brunel Goods Shed for the 4th edition of their Round Up residency in collaboration with Jazz Stroud & d&b audiotechnik. This time inviting the psychedelic world of Yama Warashi to the stage.
***** Yama Warashi is the vision of Yoshino Shigihara, a Japanese musician and artist whose past projects include cult favourites Zun Zun Egui (Bella Union), of which she was a co-founder. Inspired by Japanese folk dance, free jazz and tribal African music, and heavily saturated in psychedelia, Yama Warashi’s songs are lyrically outlandish and charming, melodically addictive and mythical; the band name translates from Shigihara’s native tongue as “small childlike mountain spirit”.
Having made herself at home in the thriving Bristol scene, in 2019 Shigihara moved to London, in search of new inspiration, and with a desire to change up her band to incorporate more female musicians. Immersed in the capital’s creative community, she wasted no time in forming a new female-focused incarnation of Yama Warashi. Their first headline London show since her move – a sellout success at Dalston’s Café OTO in December 2019 – revealed a powerful ensemble, fizzing with musical chemistry.
***** Ishmael Ensemble return in full force for the first time since beginning the residency. Expect new tunes & further sonic exploration with the d&b audiotechnik soundscape.
Along the way culture, particularly visual culture, drifted and became content which challenged old structures and allowed for new emerging opportunities.
This exhibition pitches ceramic objects made by and for May Darbyshire's Kingdom of Imagined Animals. These set before Mark Darbyshire's collection of found images, also of animals.
Our purpose: acknowledging we are content whilst detaching ourselves from the poverty of image streaming. All in the hope content will find at least a modicum of contentment.
Synthesiser chamber ensemble perform classical transcriptions, new compositions and classic horror soundtracks for this special Halloween performance they will be reimagining John Carpenter’s iconic scores alongside Bach’s works and others.
Trombonist, composer, bandleader, and a Tomorrow’s Warriors Emerging Artist, Christ-Stéphane Boizi is already making his mark on the London jazz scene, but his reputation is set to soar with the news that he has signed to Mark Kavuma’s Banger Factory Records label, with his debut LP As The Spirit Leads scheduled for release later in the year.
Eric Isaacson (the founder of the inspirational Mississippi Records label) is touring his latest project, an audio/visual show called A People’s History of Music. Prepare for a presentation of around 90-100 mins, which charts a moving and vital people's history of underground musical resistance.
‘From That Land’ is not merely the title of an exhibition, nor is it a simple answer to a geographical question. It is a condensed essence —a title for an unfolding narrative that branches into millions of stories about what takes place on that land, and what it truly means in the hearts and minds of its people.
Workshop with Sophie Ferrier. Bring a soil sample from your garden, allotment or favourite woodland. Put it under a microscope and make a print, a soil fingerprint unique to your patch of ground, as part of a growing archive of Stroud’s soils.
