Bottlenote music :: improvised :: jazz :: new music

30-06-09: Bottlenote live at The Joy Gallery featuring Ed Rosenberg July 17th

Triple Piglet is a longstanding group of keyboardist / composer Justin Carroll and features the unusual instrumentation of hamonium, double bass and cello. Justin, a founding member of the Bottlenote collective is a leading figure on the Irish jazz scene and is well know for his work with Togetherness and Organics. Dave Redmond is one of Ireland's most in demand jazz bass players and performs regularly with renowned American pianist Bill Carrothers amongst others. Cellist Kate Ellis is held is high esteem for her work with the Crash Ensemble and tours regularly with singer Karen Casey. This trio makes ample use of the unique possibilities this instrumentation allows, from eastern European tinged melodies to lush chamber jazz. On this occasion Triple Piglet team up with New York tenor saxophonist Ed Rosenberg, a highly creative improviser / composer and leader of Jerseyband. Also joining the ensemble will be the wonderfully talented percussionist Sean Carpio.

The Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place, Parnell Sq East, Dublin 1 | Doors 8.30pm | €8

Opening Tuesday 23rd June in The Gate Theatre, Notting Hill, London. Medea/Medea is a radical piece of new theatre directed by Dylan Tighe and featuring a new score by Irish composer/performer Seán Óg. Visit www.gatetheatre.co.uk for full information. "As arresting visually as it is aurally... Viewed more as an installation than what we British tend to think of as theatre, this can be seen as intelligent, European-style dramaturgy" - **** Time Out, London.

This one is dedicated to all the ravers in the nation. To all the music fans around my age, late twenties, who were too young to experience the rave scene first hand but fell in love with the sounds anyway. In whose minds rave music has gained an almost mythical status, responsible for so much that has come since.

Fresh from their recent Italian festival performance Irish duo Morla play a double bill with the reknowned drummer Steve Argúelles at Dublin's Back Loft which you can find here - get to this early as space is limited. Also - we have a couple of pairs of tickets to go to the first folks to get in touch with us (through our contact page) - just let us know you are looking for tickets and if you get to us in time we will sort that out for you! Check out http://www.myspace.com/stevearguelles and www.myspace.com/morlamusic

Seán Óg's arrangement of 'A Life on The Ocean Wave' will be performed off the coast of Salthill, Galway by The Cois Cladaigh Chamber Choir in a performance piece by artist Michelle Browne. This performance is an homage to Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader who disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean in 1975. Part of Volvo Ocean Race 2008/2009. 30/05/09. 2pm.

THE FOLD 3
Justin Carroll's Triple Piglet / Electronic Sensoria Band
21st May 2009

Balkan-infused improvisations from Justin Carroll's alt-folk trio. Electronic Sensoria Band continue their experiment in live improvisation.

Triple Piglet is a longstanding group of keyboardist / composer Justin Carroll and features the unusual instrumentation of hamonium, double bass and cello. This trio makes ample use of the unique possibilities this instrumentation allows, from eastern European tinged melodies to lush chamber jazz and will be perfectly suited to a rich acoustic space like St Audeons.
Double Bill presented by Note productions in association with Bottlenote.
For full details, video documentation and tickets sales for this special occasion visit www.thefold.ie

Filmed live at The Fold 2 by the good people at The Joinery. This excerpt features Seán Óg (alto saxophone, electronics), Simon Jermyn (guitar, electronics) & Shane O'Donovan (drums). Recorded in the 12th Century splendor of St. Audeon's Church, Dublin. Check back for details of more bottlenote groups performing at The Fold

Contagious Creativity is a real time, multi dimensional example of a world where digital and organic, human and machine, science and art can coexist and interact with each other through the medium of infection. It’s a collaborative project between three multidisciplinary artists Alo Allik (Estonia), Annika Koski (Finland) and Simon Jermyn (Ireland) inspirationally infected by each others work. The project was created in Ireland, where all three artist are currently based, and it will be on display in the Science Gallery in Dublin for three months as part of an exciting exhibition called Infectious, now open!
The idea of Contagious Creativity started from sparks of curiosity to explore new areas of art, and grew into an organism that will be exposed to the public in the form of a live performance. After this, the installation is creating a life of its own. Not even the artists know what shape, tone or colour this infection will take, or how far it will spread...

Trinity College Dublin on Pearse Street in The Naughton Institute. show runs until 17:07:09 -
12:00-20:00 Tuesday-Friday and 12:00-18:00 Saturday-Sunday. www.sciencegallery.com

The duo collaboration between Simon Jermyn and Seán Óg, sees two of Ireland's most probing, individual musicians working through a programme of original tunes intertwined with live electronics and an insistence on meaningful improvisation.

Simon Jermyn - guitar, baritone guitar, electronics, preparations.
Seán Óg - alto saxophone, ring modulator, televisions.

One of the rising stars of Scandanavian jazz, trumpeter Mathias Eick added to his burgeoning reputation when he picked up the prestigious ‘International Jazz Award for New Talent’ in 2007.

Mathias Eick (trumpet)
Rune Arnerson (drums)
Andreas Ulvo (keyboards)
Audun Erlien (electric bass)

Mermaid Arts Centre. Friday 1st May. Programme starts 8pm. €25. Visit www.brayjazz.com for full festival details

Click on the orange button above for the third installment in Ian McDonnell's year long mix series for 2009. A fairly dancey affair with a short beatless section in the middle. Starts mellow, finished hard. Visit Ian's blog for more details and mixes.

20-04-09: Bottlenote at The Fold II

Morla / Rainfear - Thursday 23rd April St Audeon's Church, Cornmarket, Dublin 8. €12. 7.30pm www.thefold.ie

"A surprising music whose kaleidoscopic colours, textures and original lines constantly confounded expectation." The Irish Times

Morla is the most recent group to emerge from Bottlenote - a collective of creative Dublin based musicians. Simon Jermyn's sculptural guitar work blends beautifully with Seán Óg's personal approach to jazz's most iconic of instruments while Shane O'Donovan's creative percussion and innovative electronica have been a mainstay of Dublin's underground scene for a number of years. Focusing on a pared back tonal palette, reminiscent of ancient folksong traditions and coupled with quarter tone melodies, Morla has a personal approach and sound which is all its own. Expect daring compositions, live processing and an insistence on meaningful improvisation.

Simon Jermyn - guitar, baritone guitar, electronics, preparations.
Seán Óg - alto saxophone, ring modulator, televisions.
Shane O'Donovan - programming, drums, electronics.

Rainfear is a new improvised music project co-ordinated by David Donohoe. It is a vehicle for both layered self improvisation and collaboration. Currently it comprises David Donohoe (Keys/ Electronics) and Peter Maybury (Drums/ Electronics).

15-04-09:Improvised Music Company Present - way out west, jazz from ireland 2009

Tuesday 21st April. Button Factory (formerly TBMC), Curved Street Templebar Dublin 2
€15 + booking fee (included) 8pm www.improvisedmusic.ie

Metier, Francesco Turrisi Trio, Trihornophone, Dorothy Murphy's Circleways, Mike Nielsen, Organics

In addition to its great traditional fiddlers, folk singers and rock guitarists, Ireland has some fine jazz musicians that Improvised Music Company would like to bring to your attention. You'll find them on Way Out West, a compilation CD insert in the April edition of The Journal of Music (formerly JMI), and if you come along to our Button Factory launch on Tuesday 21st April, we'll have a *gratis copy waiting for you, along with performances by six of its featured artists.

Supported by Culture Ireland, Way Out West provides emphatic evidence of creative industry and intent in jazz from Ireland, and this CD will play its part in bringing the Irish jazz message to festivals, venues and clubs worldwide, generating opportunity for Irish artists from Boston to Berlin. Stylistically, our jazz musicians are happy to embrace both, and here you will find music that straddles the great jazz traditions from both sides of The Atlantic, as befits our small but creative island that looks outward to the world.

WINGDING
Shane Latimer (guitar'n'stuff)
Kelan Walsh (baritone sax)
Colm O'Hara (trombone)
Matt Jacobson (drums'n'bits)
with visuals by Darragh O'Kelly

Friday the 17th of April at the Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place (opposite the Gate theatre)
Doors at 8pm, 10 euro entrance. 5 euro before 8:30. Complimentary wine (if you get there early enough!)

23-03-09: Bottlenote at The Fold

SEÁN ÓG / FERGUS CULLEN, GAVIN DUFFY, KARL HIM / SPECIAL GUEST IARLA O'LIONÁIRD

St. Audeon's Church, Dublin 8, 26th March 2009
Tickets €12 (including booking fee) available online from Tickets.ie | Doors: 7:30pm | Show: 8pm

"[His] pieces are highly original, creative, packed with incident and show a
determination to avoid any hint of the clichéd or the safe." The Irish Times

Winner of 'Best Young Irish Artist Award' at Cork Jazz Festival 2008 saxophonist Seán Óg is firmly placed as one of the country's most interesting and engaging improvising musicians. Developing a very personal voice on saxophone and bass clarinet as well as invented instruments and electronics he has plotted his own path along the fault lines between free improvisation, avant-garde composition and contemporary jazz. Although highly active with a number of projects including Trihornophone, Morla, Kaum Quartet, Bottlenote and a raft of interdisciplinary work, solo saxophone remains at the core of Seán's work. This performance sees him teasing apart his own compositions and creating new music drawing on a bank of extended techniques, in-the-moment musicality and impassioned improvisation.

20-03-09: White Rocket Update

Following their whirlwind east coast US tour Bottlenote trio White Rocket return home with a slew of estatic reviews,
a new fan base and a new album recorded at the end of the trip in New York. More news about the album posted
here soon. Meanwhile check out the video page for more tracks from White Rocket.
“The players excel at locating the groove within even the most complex figures." - Time Out, New York.
“Their chemistry is inspiring” - Jazzreview.com
”Threaten to undo everything you thought you knew about jazz music.” - Blogcritics.org.
“It’s hard to think of anyone to compare them to: they’re just really good” - Lucid Culture

Button Factory, Temple Bar Music Centre, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Doors 8pm, Tickets €15 (includes your personal copy of Togetherness CD)

Loren Stillman (Saxophone)
Sean Carpio (Drums)
Joachim Badenhorst (Clarinet)
Simon Jermyn ( Electric Bass)

"Guitarist Simon Jermyn is definitely one of the stars of the future. His recent projects have revealed a subtle, restless musical mind, and the strength and sense of purpose to lead innovative bands." - Cormac Larkin, The Sunday Tribune

Trot A Mouse is the debut release and lead project from Dublin-based electric bassist/guitarist/composer Simon Jermyn. 2007 saw the band release the eponymous debut on the prestigious Fresh Sound New Talent label - the imprint that launched Brad Mehldau and The Bad Plus. The release signals the emergence of a major contemporary jazz talent.

Jermyn's music is world where influences collide: folky melodies, grooves in changing meters, soundscapes and some unexpected changes in direction. Trot A Mouse is also a remarkable band featuring Jermyn, the fast-emerging New York saxophone star Loren Stillman who has recently released the acclaimed Blind Date (Pirouet), the prodigious Sean Carpio and Danish clarinettist Joachim Badenhorst.

Simon Jermyn has played guitar and bass since a young age. He performs equally as an electric bassist and guitarist. His work very often also makes use of effects and electronics to sample and manipulate in real time, aswell as incorporating field recordings. He has performed and recorded with musicians including Chris Speed, Loren Stillman, Hilmar Jensson and Ronan Guilfoyle. Alto saxophonist Loren Stillman has an amazingly creative head on his shoulders: he makes music that is so absorbingly different as evidenced on his latest release, Blind Date (Pirouet). He has played with Charlie Haden, Dave Liebman, and John Abercrombie. He names Lee Konitz and Wayne Shorter as musical influences, but along with them he also counts Hungarian composer Béla Bartók and the master of many styles, Frank Zappa. Sean Carpio is widely regarded as Ireland's finest drummer and one of our most unique talents. With his collective groups acclaimed White Rocket and Red Rocket (which also features Jermyn) he has built a reputation as one of the most innovative and exciting talents to emerge from these shores. The group is completed by frequent Han Bennink and Hilmar Jensson collaborator, Joachim Badenhorst clarinet.

Wednesday 11th March,
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
Tickets 15 and 12 Euro (including booking fee)
Bookings www.triskelartscentre.ie or 021 427 20 22
Doors 7.30pm; show starts at 8pm.

Thursday 12th March,
The Sugar Club, Dublin
Tickets 16 Euro (including booking fee).
Bookings: Ticketmaster and Tickets.ie, 0818 719 300 (Ticketmaster), and Claddagh Records.
Ticketmaster telephone and internet bookings subject to a maximum 12.5% service charge, agents 2 Euro.
Doors: 8.00pm; show starts 8.30pm.

Thanks to everyone who came out to hear Triple Piglet & Simon Jermyn / Sissel Vera Pettersen Duo in the Joy Gallery on Friday night. You can watch some footage of The Piglet set on our VIDEO page.Togetherness led by Justin Carroll are putting the final finishing touches on their new album and Bottlenote hosts their launch night in The Button Factory, 20th March. Details will be posted here soon.

19-02-09: Bottlenote live double bill

Friday 27th February - The Joy Gallery
Bottlenote presents another double bill at the Joy Gallery

Simon Jermyn-Baritone guitar / electronics
Sissel Vera Pettersen-voice / electronics / sax (from Norway)
plus live visuals by Brian Solon

and Justin Carroll's Triple Piglet
Justin Carroll-harmonium
Dave Redmond-double bass
Kate Ellis-cello

Friday the 27th of February at the Joy Gallery, 2 Rutland Place (opposite the Gate theatre)
Doors at 8pm, free in before 9. 10 euro entrance. Complimentary wine + BYOB

Sissel Vera Pettersen is Norwegian and divides her time between Copenhagen and Oslo. She is an internationally renowned vocalist and saxophonist and performs regularly with likes of Theo Bleckman, Marc Ducret and Arve Henriksen.
She will be in Dublin for a one off performance and live recording with Simon Jermyn.

www.sisselvera.com
www.simonjermyn.com
www.bottlenotemusic.com
www.myspace.com/justincarrollmusic

Justin Carroll's Triple Piglet will perform originals as well as some of the music of NYC cult figure John Zorn.

This promises to be a night exciting new music and nice people. Bring your friends and arrive early!

15-02-09: Kaum Quartett broadcast on The JK Ensemble

All this week, starting Monday February 16th, tune into The JK Ensemble on Lyric FM.

Each day this week John Kelly will play a track from The Kaum Quartett recorded in session for The JK Ensemble. This unusual gathering of alto saxophonists perform pieces highly coloured and virtuosic improvisations, using the 12th Century German mystic Hildegard von Bingen's beautiful monophonic chants as inspiration.

The Kaum Quartett is comprised of Hayden Chisholm, Frank Gratkowski, Seán Óg and Christian Weidner. They're driven by a desire to seek out new possibilities for a Saxophone Ensemble outside of the traditional model. As all of the members are soloists in their own right, the structures and compositions are formed and decided by the group, each bringing his own concept of sound and form to the music.

To see a video clip of the quartet in action or to download the entire concert visit www.plushmusic.tv

10-02-09: Bottlenote hosts 12 Points! Afterparty

Bottlenote host four nights of late night live music featuring Ireland's finest underground improvising groups and featuring International guests from 12 Points Festival 2009. Shebeen Chic, Georges Street, Dublin 2 | 11.30pm till Late.
Free admission for festival ticket holders. Check our concerts page for details
Featuring Redsquare, Floater, Awkward Silence and The Dumbshow

06-02-09: White Rocket US Tour

If you're Stateside catch up with White Rocket's 09 US Tour. The trio are releasing their debut album on Diatribe Records, which The Irish Times described as "Poised between jazz and contemporary classical music, its balance of form and improvisational freedom is reinforced by the compositions...This is gripping music by a subtle and adventurous trio." Tour dates on concerts page. White Rocket will also be recoding a new CD in New York City this February

29-01-09: Morla hits myspace
Morla Dublin

The newest spawning from Bottlenote is Morla - a duo collaboration between Simon Jermyn and Seán Óg, two of Ireland's most probing, individual musicians. Visit their myspace page to hear new music ahead of their next performance at 12 Points! 2009

13-01-09: Floater - Live footage

Archive footage from Bottlenote Triple Bill, December 2008 at The Joy Gallery. Floater - Justin Carroll (rhodes, synth), Simon Jermyn (bass, electronics), Shane O'Donovan (drums) with special guest Paul Williamson (trumpet) and live visuals from Bottlenote's Darragh O'Kelly. Watch this space for new dates in 2009.

09-01-09: 2009 Start Up

2009 sees no slowdown in the Bottlenote calendar with recent news that Morla (pictured above) will represent Ireland at this year's 12 Points! Festival in February. Morla have been in studio recently - here is a sneak preview of what to expect:
Morla - Green Circle

For all who enjoyed themselves at our last two nights in The Joy Gallery the good news is that we are planning a new series there featuring the very best from Dublin's (and beyond) improvised underground. Other plans include presenting Norwegian vocalist / saxophonist Sissel Vera Pettersen (http://www.sisselvera.com) in February plus Trihornophone are working on another release of live material and unreleased remixes from their back catalogue - this will available as a FREE download from www.bottlenotemusic.com. CONTACT US, join the mailinglist to keep in touch. Thanks

08-12-08: Bottlenote Triple Bill

This Friday 12th December come down to The Joy Gallery (which you will find here) to our final concert of the year. Featuring Floater, Shane Latimer Quartet and a solo baritone guitar set from Simon Jermyn. If you were at the last night in November expect the same great deal - €10 with complimentary wine plus you are welcome to bring your own tipple, in one of Dublin's true alternative spaces with live video art and visuals.

Kaum Quartett - St. Audeon's, Dublin 8 - Friday 5th December €15 Booking - 01 670 3885

Four very distinctive international voices of the same instrument coalesce in the Kaum Quartett, in a new project that seems eminently suited to this most atmospheric of Dublin venues.

The 12th Century German mystic Hildegard von Bingen is the catalyst for this impressive gathering of alto saxophonists, convened by adventurous Dubliner Seán Óg. Christian Weidner is an emerging force in Berlin’s creative music scene, the soulful New Zealander Chayden Chisolm brilliantly uses microtones and in Frank Gratkowski, the quartet has one of Europe’s most exhilarating free spirits.

Working with overtones, just intonation and open structures, Kaum Quartett weigh up stately plates of sound detailed with highly coloured and virtuosic improvisations, using Hildegard's beautiful monophonic chants for further investigations into an evolving lexicon for the saxophone.

12-11-08: Bottlenote Special Triple Bill

Live improvised and new music from Redsquare, Morla and Cortisol.
November 28th - The Joy Gallery @ RedSpace, 2 Rutland Place, Dublin 1.
€10, with complimentary wine plus a BYOB policy.
First in a series of performances in alternative spaces.
Can't find your way? Here's a map

Bottlenote Music presents a trio performance of improvised music with CLOG. Wednesday 8th October
Goethe Institut, 37 Merrion Sq., Dublin 2. 6.30pm €5

Rob Casey - piano / inside piano
David Lacey - drums / percussion
Seán Óg - saxophones / preparations

Formed in 2007 CLOG have already made a name on the Dublin scene as a trio of fearless improvisors. Boasting three of Ireland's leading free improvising musicians and intent on pursuing a raw and viseral approach to contemporary improvisation, this group has already garnered substantial critical success. This performance sees a return to the plush surrounds of Dublin's Goethe Institut for one performance 8th October.

Bottlenote Music presents a night of adventures in twisted jazz, improv and electronica as part of DEAF 2008 in association with Improvised Music Company . Estonian sound artist Alo Allik, already a veteran of the electro acoustic and multimedia scenes in Amsterdam and New York, opens with a deeply algorhythmic DJ set, followed by the liberating and noisy explorations of Lakker, aka Dara Smith, one of Ireland's finest electronic artists. To conclude, a brand new project from the heart of the Irish jazz scene in Bang Hazard, where Justin Carroll (keyboards), Greg Felton (keyboards), Shane Latimer (processing / electronics) and Alo Allik (processing / electronics) in forms and improvisations that embrace acoustic instrumentation and live processing, bridging the analogue and digital traditions.
JJ Smyth's, Aungier Street, Dublin 2. Sunday 26th October 8.30pm €10

22-09-08: IMRAM Festival - The Gaelic Jazz Project / An Tionscadal Snagcheoil Gaelach
Musical director Seán Óg leads another engaging musical expedition in this year's IMRAM Festival of Irish Literature. Exploring the once vibrant literary culture of the Blasket Islands with poets Dairena Ní Chinnéide and Domhnall Mac Síthigh, this project sees poetry set to new music from Óg. Featuring fellow Bottlenote artist Simon Jermyn (baritone guitar, loops, electronics), Seán Óg (alto saxophone, irish flute, electronics, samples) and Kila's dynamic front man Rónán O'Snodaigh (bodhran, guitar, vocals). One performance only: Thursday 25th September, Whelans (upstairs) €10

Greg Felton's well-crafted pieces offer a diversity of musical ideas from blues pieces inspired by Andrew Hill and Thelonious Monk to modern compositions informed by Vijay Iyer and Dave Liebman. Complex yet accessible, adventurous yet fulfilling, this music is augmented by leading musicians Michael Buckley on sax, Cormac OBrien on bass, and Sean Carpio on drums. 'Exceptional young pianist´ – The Irish Times

28 Sep 08 Greg Felton Quartet - JJ Smyth's, 12 Aungier Street, Dublin 2; 9:00pm
02 Oct 08 Greg Felton Quartet - Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin St. Cork; 9:00pm
04 Oct 08 Greg Felton Quartet - Knockranny House Hotel, West Port Arts Festival; 9:00pm

Breathing Time -Trihornophone's second album will be released by Diatribe Records at the end of September 2008.
Trihornophone is a pocket sized contemporary brass band home to some of Ireland's finest musicians from the improvised music tradition. Bill Blackmore - trumpet, Seán Óg - alto saxophone, Kelan Walsh - baritone saxophone and Dennis Cassidy - drums. Funded by Music Network the album will be available through www.sean-og.com and good record stores and the tour dates confirmed so far are:

19 Sep 2008 - Dublin Culture Night - Dublin Castle
30 Sep 2008 - ALBUM LAUNCH - Dublin Castle
23 Oct 2008 - Marley Park House, Rathfarnham
25 Oct 2008 - Cork Jazz Festival
8 Nov 2008 - Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
14 Nov 2008 - The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick, Leitrim
20 Nov 2008 - Cashel, Tipperary