YUNOHANA VARIATIONS: ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE & SUSIE IBARRA & YOSHIMIO

0	LONDON : Upset the Rhythm @ OSLO
P	Tuesday 26th June, 2018
N	7:30pm

LONDON : Upset the Rhythm @ OSLO

Tuesday 26th June, 2018

7:30pm

Event information

Upset The Rhythm presents…

YUNOHANA VARIATIONS:
ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE & SUSIE IBARRA & YOSHIMIO
Tuesday 26 June
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £12 |

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).

https://thrilljockey.com/artists/yoshimio-susie-ibarra-robert-aiki-aubrey-lowe