Siwula/ Chorlton/ Reid/ Tumilty + Bell Lungs + Lainey Dempsey + PM Henry/ Speculum Bunny

Name: Siwula/ Chorlton/ Reid/ Tumilty + Bell Lungs + Lainey Dempsey + PM Henry/ Speculum Bunny
Start: 2024-10-29T20:30:00+01:00
Location: McNeill's Bar

Schedule

Tue Oct 29 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

McNeill's Bar | Glasgow, SC

Music, dance, song to celebrate Blaise Siwula being over from NYC. £0-£15.
Doors 7:30
Blaise Siwula
I’m a freeform free jazz free music improvising saxophonist/clarinetist/pianist/percussionist originally from Detroit (1950) then San Francisco (70’s) and NYC from 1989 until now and a semi resident of Merida Mexico (presently). My focus has always been on creativity and celebrating life in adventures with musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Sonny Simmons, Paul Hession, Katsuyuki Itakura, Burton Greene, Marc Ribot and Toshi Makahari. Performing in NYC, London, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, Tokyo and other fine cities. The past few years have been a steady stream of zoom sessions. I also have releases over the past 35 years on CIMP records, Cadence Jazz Records, NoFRillsMusic, Setola Di Maiale, Konnex, Creative Sources Recordings and ALemendra Music. Last but not least an enjoyable 18 years curating the C.O.M.A. improvising music series at ABC No-Rio in NYC from 1998 to 2016
Leigh chorlton Drummer for The Shell (instagram: the.shell.band) and member of Peter Russel's emsemble 'Ubu warp cheer' (album release date 5th Nov). Toured UK with Berlin based band 'Raiments' (Third album due). Regular attendee of giodynamics Glasgow And occational participator in Tony Bevan's Saturday afternoon improv jam 'Help me! I'm melting'. Runs Whitespace Gallery in Edinburgh.
Jer Reid is a musician, sound engineer and dramaturge based in Glasgow. He has and does play in bands (dawson, sumshapes, Painted X-Ray, God Is My Co-Pilot etc) and improvising ensembles (he has played a lot with Luke Sutherland, Raymond MacDonald, Rafe Fitzpatrick etc and with Lisa Fannen in their spoken word and guitar/ sounds duo Claquer). He organises gigs and tours, runs Gruff Wit Records and for six years he has done the monthly open improvising sessions on behalf of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra called GIOdynamics. In 2010, with Solène Weinachter, he founded the music/dance group Collective Endeavours who’s performances have included Tectonics Glasgow and Dance International Glasgow as well as lots of places that dance isn't usually seen in. His dramaturgy work has included working with long time dancer collaborator Rosalind Masson and visual artist and writer Corin Sworn. He was thrilled last year to, along with Una MacGlone, make the music for Cloudberry MacLean’s singular film Low Rent. He has toured in thirty countries and has had his music played on BBC Radios 1, 3 and 4. In 2023 he released his first book of writing called Days and Diary Entries.
Emer Tumilty
Emer performs on occasion with saxophonist Tony Bevan at “Help Me, I’m Melting”, and collaborates with an eclectic range of improvisers and experimental players across Scotland.
Lainey Demspey
Influenced by Scotland and Ireland’s traditional song bearers, Lainey writes and sings about rebels, underdogs, the supernatural and the broken hearted. Her unaccompanied voice creates an intimacy and human connection that invites audiences to travel with her into the stories of the songs she sings.
Paul Michael Henry + Speculum Bunny Butoh dance, noise, field recordings, and voice. The first devotional performance meeting between PMH and SB.
Bell Lungs is the moniker of Scottish-Turkish vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and creative facilitator Ceylan Hay.
An interdisciplinary artist with an intuitive gift for sensitive collaboration, Ceylan frequently composes for theatre, dance and spoken word. She relishes performing in unusual locations including the top deck of a double decker bus circling the streets of Glasgow, a post-apocalyptic former sugar silo in Buffalo, NY, the oldest Tudor House in Sheffield, a boat cruising along Dover beach, and inside a hydroelectric power station situated deep within the bowels of Ben Cruachan in Argyll. She was Musician in Residence for Stranraer’s Unexpected Gardens project in summer 2022, commissioned by BFI’s Curious to create a new live score for Maya Deren’s 1943 cult classic Meshes of the Afternoon, and has been selected to take part in residencies facilitated by the likes of Australian Art Orchestra, Sarah Davachi and Ellen Arkbro. Her music has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio Scotland, including the cult programmes Freak Zone, Freeness and Late Junction. Installations and performances have appeared as part of exhibitions All Mortal Greatness is But Disease at Scottish Maritime Museum, and Chimera and Bow Gamelan Ensemble: Great Noises That Fill The Air at Cooper Gallery in Dundee. Ceylan is an integral part of the projects Roarie Bumlers (commissioned by IMAGINATE as part of Family Encounters at Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2023) and Instructions on How to Cry (performed at Edinburgh International Science Festival 2019, Wonder Festival 2022 and Vault Festival 2023)