Upset The Rhythm presents…
YUNOHANA VARIATIONS:
YOSHIMIO & ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE
& SUSIE IBARRA
Tuesday 26 June
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney,
E8 1LL
Three improvisational luminaries;
multi-instrumentalist YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO, SAICOBAB), avant-garde
percussionist Susie Ibarra, and artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
(Lichens) shall be performing together as Yunohana Variations for the
first time in the UK. The trio's previous collaborations have resulted
in album, ‘Flowers Of Sulphur’, released on Thrill Jockey this February. ‘Flower of Sulphur’, is a transfixing piece of
continuous improvisational work which explores the direct relationship between
the artists and their individual configurations. The album takes the form of
the trio each playing their principal instruments to explore the space in that
moment. This spontaneous composition showcases the freedom and musical
immediacy of all three artists’ ability to interplay as well as their
individual unique techniques to create engaging experimental sounds. This tour is the second installment of Outlands’
experimental tour outings, this time produced by Birmingham’s Supersonic
Festival.
YoshimiO is a drummer, vocalist and founding
member of the revolutionary Japanese noise rock group Boredoms. She is
the leader of the experimental rock band OOIOO, a member of Free
Kitten with Kim Gordon, and most recently the singer in SAICOBAB – a quartet who blend ancient Indian
musical traditions and instruments with electronics and modern sounds. Known
for her ability to improvise in a variety of contexts, YoshimiO has previously
performed and recorded improvisational music with saxophonist Mats
Gustafsson, Jim O’Rourke, and recently with Lowe, and then Ibarra
during a series of collaborative performances in New York City, late in 2015.
Susie Ibarra, is one of the most significant
percussionists and composers of our time, known for her work as a performer
within contemporary, avant-garde, jazz, classical, and world music, and
performs in the band Dreamtime Ensemble. Ibarra studied with jazz
luminaries Earl Buster Smith (of Sun Ra Arkestra), Vernel
Fournier and Milford Graves, and Philippine Kulintang gong-chime
music with Danongan Kalanduyan. She has performed with the likes of: John
Zorn, Dave Douglas, Yo La Tengo, Ikue Mori and recent works include a sound
installation for Ai Weiwei.
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a multidisciplinary artist whose
practice is strongly rooted in exploration of moments and the hypnagogic state.
Movement and gesture play key factors within this process, and in the
performance realm are focused on by voice and modular synthesizer. A fixture of
Chicago’s experimental community throughout the 90s and early 2000s, Robert has
also performed under the name Lichens, is a member of the legendary band Om,
and has an impressive portfolio of collaborations, which extends to the film
world with his score for pseudo-documentary A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness,
directed by Ben Russell and Ben Rivers (which Robert also appears in).
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