04-02-10: UpDog @ Bottlenote Festival 09 - live footage
Updog // Live at The Bottlenote Festival 09
Robin Fincker - tenor saxophone, clarinet //
Simon Henry Francis Jermyn - electric bass guitar, electronics //
Dave Smith - drums
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Updog is a collaborative project between Irish electric bassist and Bottlenote member Simon Jermyn, French tenor saxophonist / clarinetist Robin Fincker and British drummer Dave Smith. Robin and Dave are key members of London’s critically acclaimed Loop Collective. This clip is from their new song cycle entitled “Welcome to the new paradise. You, a lonely wildcat”
28-01-10: Seán Óg at Kaleidoscope
Seán Óg performs an all acoustic solo saxophone short set of Hildegard von Bingen, Ryo Noda and improvisations at February's Kaleidoscope Night. The programme includes John Dowland, Piazolla, Janácek and more - full details from http://www.kaleidoscopenight.com/ | February 2nd, Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2 | 8.30pm €8. Check Seán's myspace page for new tunes and updates.
20-01-10: Mantrum on tour
MANTRUM
Five grown men throw a tantrum while playing new music. A new collaborative project between musicians from Sweden and Ireland. Kindly supported by the Improvised Music Company. See concerts page for tour dates
Thomas Backman (alto saxophone, clarinet)
Nils Berg (flute, tenor saxophone, bassclarinet)
Shane Latimer (guitar)
Cormac O'Brien (doublebass)
Shane O'Donovan (drumkit)
Wednesday 20th:: Glenn Miller Cafe :: Stockholm :: 90kr/60kr/30kr
Thursday 21st:: Glenn Miller Cafe :: Stockholm :: 90kr/60kr/30kr
Friday 22nd:: Campbell's Tavern :: Headford, Co. Galway :: €10
Sunday 24th:: JJ Smyth's :: Aungier St., Dublin 2 :: €10/€8
22-12-09: Rhythm Method - last show of the year
Thanks for your support in 2009. Hope to see you at our last gig of the year tonight in Whelans!
Rhythm Method with Michael Buckley
RM perform original material with very special gueat Michael Buckley on tenor saxophone.
w/ Bill Blackmore (trumpet) Shane Latimer (guitar) Cormac O'Brien (double bass) Shane O'Donovan (drums)
:: Whelans Upstairs, Wexford St. :: Doors 8pm ::
05-12-09: Bottlenote Festival - Last Day!
Bottlenote Festival 09
Shane Latimer’s Oblong // Justin Carroll's Octopus // Lead Soup // Alo Allik //
Saturday 5th.
8pm till late.
Admission €12/8.
The Twisted Pepper, Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Our festival wraps tonight with four superb acts, thanks to all who came along and checked out the music, and our funders The Arts Council and Improvised Music Company. Video documentation to follow soon.
PLEASE NOTE: Workshops are now cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
11-11-09: Bottlenote Festival 2009 Announced!
Bottlenote Festival 09
December Friday 4th & Saturday 5th.
8pm till late.
Admission €12/8 – Festival ticket €20/14
The Twisted Pepper, Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Funded by The Arts Council and Improvised Music Company
Tickets now on sale (no booking fees) from www.tickets.ie or from Road Records, City Discs or Plugd Records
Justin Carroll’s Octopus //
Seán Óg’s Sem Som //
Shane Latimer’s Oblong //
Simon Jermyn’s Updog //
Bang Hazard //
Lead Soup //
Eomac (DJ set) //
Alo Allik (DJ set) //
Spread over two nights in Dublin's Twisted Pepper, with artists from Norway, Paris, Denmark Dublin and London, The Bottlenote Festival 2009 is a major event for improvised music in Ireland.
The core festival programme presents four members from Bottlenote collaborating with four visiting European artists from Norway, Paris, Denmark and London chosen for their individualism, creativity and craft. The result is two nights of double bills featuring newly commissioned music for four new groups reflecting the cutting edge of contemporary jazz. The festival also presents two established Bottlenote groups, Bang Hazard and Lead Soup as well as laptop sets from Estonian sound artist Alo Allik and Dublin’s Eomac. Two educational workshops open to the public free of charge will run as part of Bottlenote Festival 09.
The festival showcases the work of Bottlenote musicians and promotes collaborative practice between Irish jazz musicians and their European counterparts, providing audiences with an exciting snapshot of the best new improvised music both across Europe and here in Ireland.
See concerts page for full details and times
Click here to download Bottlenote Festival 09 Press Pack
09-11-09: Trihornophone
Trihornophone return to the capital for a long awaited concert, performing new pieces and free improvisations. Bill Blackmore - trumpet, Seán Óg - alto saxophone, Kelan Walsh - baritone saxophone & Dennis Cassidy - drums. Double Bill with Dennis Wyer's Rhombus.
25-10-09: Quiet Music Ensemble DEAF09
night leaves breathing
Featuring the Quiet Music Ensemble with guest artist David Toop
5pm-10pm, Sat 31 Oct, Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
The Quiet Music Ensemble concludes this year’s Dublin Electronic Arts Festival with a 5-hour spectacular of pieces by masters of experimental music, incredible sonic environments and drone-music, uncommon Dreamhouse and video.
The event features the Dublin premieres of pieces especially written for the group by Alvin Lucier, David Toop, Mark Applebaum and others, plus rare electronic immersive works by Eliane Radigue, John Godfrey and many more. Video will include the extraordinary Dreams of the Jungfrau by the artistic director of the Deep Listening Institute, Ione. This is also a rare occasion to catch some of the wealth of new music coming out of Cork city’s enviable Sound Art scene.
The climax of the event features author, artist and improviser David Toop, who will present on his research, perform improvisations and take part in his piece for the QME, night leaves breathing.
Tickets €15/€10, available from Tickets.ie or on the door
QME musicians for the DEAF09 performance: John Godfrey, QME Artistic Director/electric guitar; Dan Bodwell, double bass; Roddy O’Keefe, Trombone; Ilse de Ziah, cello; Sean Óg, clarinets/saxophones.
Further information on Dublin Electronic Arts Festival
Presented with funds from the Performance and Touring Award with thanks to The Arts Council and Music Network
21-10-09: Bottlenote @ Dublin Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF) 2009
Bottlenote presents in association with DEAF 2009 a bumper triple bill of new experimental & improvised music.
Sunday 25th October
Odessa Club, Dame Court
7.30pm start. €10
www.bottlenotemusic.com
http://deafireland.com/2009
Bang Hazard
Following their debut at DEAF 2008, Bang Hazard continue to explore the textural possibilities of electronic improvisation. Featuring Alo Allik – live processing; Justin Carroll – Fender Rhodes, Moog synthesisers, effects; Shane Latimer – prepared instruments, live sampling, effects.
Morla
“Two of the most original voices on the Dublin scene” – The Sunday Tribune.
Focusing on a pared-back tonal palette, Morla’s sound is reminiscent of ancient folksong traditions, coupled with quarter-tone melodies and electronic soundscapes. Simon Jermyn (guitar, fretless guitar, electronics) & Seán Óg (alto saxophone, electronics, tape) have wowed audiences at 12 Points! 2009, The Fold in St. Audeon’s church, The Bray Jazz Festival 2009, Foligno Jazz Festival (Italy) and The Kilkenny Arts Festival. Catch them before their new project for string quartet debuting at Sligo New Music Festival next year. www.myspace.com/morlamusic
Lead Soup
Lead Soup are a new trio blending noise, feedback, and electronic dub beats to create music that is both richly textured and fiercely percussive. Keyboardist Darragh O'Kelly is joined by Eoghan de Hoog on guitar and fx and Neill Whelan on laptop.
Sunday 25th October | Odessa Club, Dame Court | 7.30pm start. €10 (free for members)
16-10-09: Lauren Sevian with Bjorn Solli Organ Trio
American baritone saxophonist, Lauren Sevian visits Ireland to play with the Nikki Iles Quintet, an all women band, at the Guinness Cork International Jazz Festival. She is making a stop off in Dublin to perform with Bjorn Solli Organ Trio, with with Justin Carroll and Kevin Brady.
American baritone saxophonist, Lauren Sevian performed professionally since the age of 12. At 16 she won the Count Basie Invitational soloing competition, which led to a feature performance with the Basie Band. And by 17 she performed at Lincoln Center, & the Village Vanguard. In 1997 Lauren began to attend the Manhattan School of Music New York where she studied with Mark Turner, Donny McCaslin, Steve Slagle and Joe Temperley.
On graduation, Lauren became a regular member of groups such as the Mingus Big Band, the Artie Shaw Orchestra and Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra. She has performed with a variety of different groups including Frank Lacy's Vibe Tribe, Valery Ponomarov's Big Band, Charli Persip's Supersound, Mike Hashim's Billy Strayhorn Orchestra, Diva, Steve Slagle's Sax Quartet, singers Melba Joyce, Maxine Brown and Josh Weinstein.
Lauren's quartet the “LSQ”, includes George Colligan (piano), Boris Kozlov (bass) and Johnathan Blake(drums) and released “Blueprint” in December 2008.
Bjorn Solli,guitarist/composer, born in Norway in 1979 and now based in New York. Voted “young Norwegian jazz musician of the year” in 2002 and has since won numerous awards throughout Europe. With his trio SOLID he has released three critically acclaimed CDs distributed worldwide. Bjorn Solli is a busy professional musician working out of New York City and with artists such as Matt Penman, Wayne Batchelor, Marcus Strickland, Ingrid Jensen, Adam Cruz and Jaleel Shaw.
Justin Carroll and his longtime colleague Kevin Brady of Organics will bring their usual excellent musical taste to this very special Irish debut concert by Lauren Sevian.
Lauren Sevian with Bjorn Solli Organ Trio
Slatterys of Rathmines
Wednesday 21 October - 9pm. Adm €8
Lauren Sevian (US) - baritone saxophone,
Justin Carroll (IRE) - Hammond organ,
Bjorn Solli (NOR) - guitar,
Kevin Brady (IRE) - drums.
07-10-09:Bottlenote presents new music at DEAF 2009
The 2009 programme for Dublin's Electronic Arts Festival has been launched. Bottlenote are delighted to present a night of new music as part of the Festival in the luxurious surrounds of Dublin's Odessa Club on Sunday 25th October. The line-up for the night includes - Bang Hazard, Morla & Led Soup, as well as short improvisations from guest musicians. 7.30pm €10.
28-09-09:No Worst There Is None - Dublin Theatre Festival
The Stomach Box in association with The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival and Poetry Ireland present No Worst There Is None. Based on the ‘terrible sonnets’ of Gerard Manley Hopkins, this site-specific promenade piece is a contemporary re-imagining of the state of mind of the seminal Victorian poet as he approaches death. The Stomach Box will stage this performance in the magnificent surrounds of Newman House, St. Stephens Green where Hopkins, a Jesuit priest, spent five years as UCD Professor of Greek and Classics until his death in 1889.
The audience is invited to follow a live boys’ choir and performers around the building within a series of tableaux, installations and performance sequences. Featuring a new choral score, multiple installations and live electronics this is a radical contemporary reinvestigation of this lost historical episode, revealing the psyche of Hopkins in Dublin as the country moves towards violent upheaval at the end of the 19th century.
Set in the very house where Hopkins died in the 1880’s, No Worse There is None is a ground-breaking fusion of contemporary choral music, poetry and performance. The cast includes The Stomach Box Associate Artist Will O’Connell as Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Heap as Cardinal Newman together with choristers from the St. Patrick’s Cathedral Boy’s Choir.
Directed by Dylan Tighe
Composer by Seán Óg
Scenography by Phil MacMahon
www.thestomachbox.com
October 1st-7th. Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. 7pm SOLD OUT
Check out a short radio documentary about the show on RTÉ Radio 1, Arena, 7.30pm Tomorrow (28-09-09), 88.5fm or www.rte.ie/radio1 check back here for documentation of this innovative production.
26-09-09:White Rocket Review and Greg Felton Trio News
The Greg Felton Trio represented Ireland in Macedonia in September 09 for the Skopje Biennale of Young Artists. This was a multi-disciplinary arts event involving over 700 of the best young artists from more than 40 european countries. The trio performed 5 sets of completely different music over the course of a week including improvised accompanyment to silent movies along with a conducted sound installation piece. By all accounts the trio was well-received.
Another of Greg's musical vechicles White Rocket was reviewed recently in Downbeat Magazine.
"White Rocket have served up a dazzling and promising debut. This young trans-Atlantic trio first met and bonded over a shared love for Indian Carnatic music, Nick Drake and Meshuggah while attending Banff Centre for Jazz and Creative Music in 2005. Irish pianist Greg Felton and drummer Sean Carpio create dense, fully-formed rhythmic-harmonic figurations – the lack of a bassist hardly matters- and New York-based trumpeter Jacob Wick, who’s one of the most exciting and curious hornmen I’ve heard in the last few years, goes to town blowing over them. But there’s much more going on than muscular improvisation.
This trio relishes using rhythm as its primary building blocks. Felton never surrenders his insistent twitching pulse he establishes at the start of his tune “His Story”, which establishes the group’s penchant for rigorous narrative qualities, through its title and the rising and falling dramatic arc of the tune. Wick’s turbulent “Recent Events” makes this tact more plain, with a dark, episodic density inspired by a shuffle of short, depressing and death-obsessed items from a cable news channel. A piece like “Hone” ratchets up the intensity by building some freer sections into the imperturbable structure, allowing Felton to unload some dazzling post-Cecil Taylor banging. Considering that these guys are still in their 20s, I can only imagine where they go from this auspicious beginning." - Peter Margasak, Downbeat.
The album is available now from our sister site http://www.diatribe.ie/ where other Bottlenote titles are available.
White Rocket will be travelling to New Dehli, India to perform a concert on November 5th 2009.
21-09-09:Bottlenote's new young guns - Z Plane
This is from one of our recent nights in The Joy Gallery. Tom Arthurs, Justin Carroll, Shane Latimer, Roy Carroll.
15-09-09:Togetherness Live at the Back Loft
Bottlenote presents...
Togetherness with Hugues Mayot (from Strasbourg)
"considerable ingenuity and imagination" - Ray Comiskey, Irish Times (4 stars)
"a lush group texture that makes four instruments sound like an orchestra." - Cormac Larkin, Sunday Tribune (4 stars)
Togetherness are a Dublin based jazz quartet led by pianist /composer Justin Carroll and featuring Sean Carpio on drums, Dave Redmond on bass and Hugues Mayot on tenor saxophone. With a critically acclaimed debut album released earlier this year Togetherness are keeping a busy touring schedule with dates at this years Young Generation Jazz Festival Berlin and the Cork Jazz Festival, and last years Bray Jazz Festival and 12 Points! Festival.
Saturday 19th September 2009 | The Back Loft, St Augustine Street, Dublin 8 | 8.30pm, Adm € 8
11-09-09:The Arrows That Murder Sleep
New Theatre, East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. €5 | 7pm
Part of The IMRAM Festival: Lorcán Mac Mathúna - vocals, Martin Tourish - piano-accordion, Seán Óg - live processing, saxophones. "While the lyrics and lyrical structures of early music is recorded we really have no idea what it sounded like as there was no development of musical notation at this time - that wouldn't develop even in its most rudimentary form for another half millenium. The best we can do is guess what it may have sounded like through methods such as experimenting on instruments that were in use at the time and the examination of primitive music in contemporary primitive societies."
Moving new interpretations of Old Irish love songs from the 8th to the 14th centuries.
09-09-09:Ian McDonnell Mix Series
AUGUST: An Old Vinyl Selection For !Kaboogie Mix by eomac
I was recently reunited with my turntables and vinyl collection after about a year and a half away, and a year of digital dj-ing. This mix is a result of that most happiest of reunions. Recorded live the old fashioned way, using two Technic 1210's, a shitty old Gemini mixer, a bunch of 12"s and one 7".
This one is for the lovely gents over at !Kaboogie (www.kaboogie.net), who have just put out the quality Squidge EP on 12". The first of many, hopefully.
20-08-09: Tom Arthurs, Justin Carroll, Roy Carroll, Shane Latimer (Z Plane) live at The Joy Gallery
A evening of improvised music with two musicians currently residing in Berlin Tom Arthurs on trumpet and Roy Carroll on sampler, and two musicians from the Dublin based Bottlenote collective Justin Carroll on keyboards and Shane Latimer on prepared guitar.
This Thursday 20th August 2009,
Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place,
Parnell Sq East, Dublin 1.
Doors 8.30pm, Admission €8
BYOB
10-08-09: The Rhythm Method featuring Paul Williamson live at The Joy Gallery
This Friday 14th August come down to The Joy Gallery (which you will find here) to our next night of performances.
Following their debut in JJ Smyth’s last week the Rhythm Method decend on the Joy Gallery for a meeting with antipodean trumpet sensation Paul Williamson. This will be the last chance to catch Paul in action before he flies south for the winter and the band are relishing the opportunity to ruffle his musical feathers. The compositional duties are evenly distributed throughout the band, reflecting the different creative personalities at work here. Bassist Cormac OBrien and drummer Shane O'Donovan are joined by Darragh O'Kelly on Rhodes and Shane Latimer on guitar and effects.
The Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place, Parnell Sq East, Dublin 1 | Doors 8.30pm | €8
06-08-09: The Rhythm Method
Live on Sunday 9th August: Rhythm Method @ Pendulum
Five stalwarts of the Dublin music scene collaborate in a project that focuses on original writing. The compositional duties are evenly distributed throughout the band, reflecting the different creative personalities at work here, and readily identifiable cues are drawn from the expansive improv of Wayne Shorter, the minimalism of Steve Reich and atonal terrain of Julius Hemphill. Bassist Cormac O'Brien and drummer Shane O'Donovan, joined by pianist Darragh O'Kelly, guitarist Shane Latimer and trumpeter Bill Blackmore (pictured above).
J.J. Symths, Aungier Street, Dublin 2. Adm: €?10 Doors: 8.30pm
28-07-09: Together with Tom Arthurs & Loren Stillman
Together with Tom Arthurs and Loren Stillman, JJ Smyths, Saturday 15th August, Doors 9pm, Adm 12 euro
This marvelous occasion brings together two outstanding musicians from Europe and the U.S. to Dublin to join forces with three of Ireland's leading jazz musicians. Loren Stillman is one of New York's rising stars on the alto saxophone, and Tom Arthurs is a highly creative trumpeter, flügelhornist currently residing between London and Berlin. Joining them will be Justin Carroll on piano, Dave Redmond on bass and Seán Carpio on drums for an evening of exciting original music presented by different members of the ensemble.
www.myspace.com/justincarrollmusic
18-07-09: Biforking
Presented by Ergodos and Deserted Village:
Biforking - Live at The Joinery, Tuesday 27 July:
(3 Performances combining composition and improvisation)
Linda Buckley (voice) (lindabuckley.org)
Sean Reed (computer) (seanreed.ie)
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Seán Óg (saxophone, electronics) (sean-og.com)
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Gavin Prior (Electronics)
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly (violin) (myspace.com/schleppklang)
Francis Heery (viola)
The Joinery Gallery, Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7.
Tuesday, 27th July 2009. 8.30pm €5
www.thejoinery.org / www.ergodos.ie / www.desertedvillage.com
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