London Sound Index - 16th-30th April
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Thu 13 June, Mica Levi + Ailie Ormston, LSO St. Luke’s ✅, EC1V 9NG. Performing a mixture of new and old compositions for harp, guitar, sax, strings, plus solo piano. From £20-£25.
16th - 30th April Listings
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16th April (Tue)
Discovery Zone + Pink Shabab
Peckham Audio ♿️
SE15 4BQ
£10 + bf
RVNG Intl. associated ambient pop w/ support from one-man-band Pink Shabab
Green Gardens, Siblings, Nijuu
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Varingly described as "medieval indie-america" or "feudal soft rock". FFO Mount Misery, Hop Along
Palehound
Oslo ♿️
E8 1LL
from £15.40
17th April (Wed)
Deaf Club + Fuck Money + Mister Lizard
New Cross Inn ♿️
SE14 6AS
£17
"blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault" (ft. Justin Pearson of the Locust)
Lynks
Koko ✅ 16+
NW1 7RE
£19.40
Molly Lewis + Avice Caro
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£16 + bf
Whistler-composer
SKANKS: Kuntessa + Arch Femmesis + Joanie
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£7.50
Teresa Winter + Ney + Slowfoam
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 advance; £8 members
Hosted by Night School and Somewhere Press; "malleable prompts"; "aqueous field recordings"
18th April (Thu)
Bingo Fury + Tooth Adderley
Folklore ⏳
E2 7QL
£10.50 + bf
House of All + the Courtesy Group
The Dome 📶
NW5 1HL
£18
Supergroup of ex-Fall servicemen (Hanley brothers alert)
Louis Culture + Hanah
Village Underground 16+ ✅🅰️(16+17)
EC2A 3PQ
£12.50 + bf
Rhodri Davies + Ute Kanngiesser
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL£14; £12 advance; £7 members
As-good-as-it-gets primo harpist / Richard Dawson and Eliane Radigue collaborator + hyperfocused classically-informed cello improvisation
19th April (Fri)
Beans (Antipop Consortium) + Special Guest Brother May
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 advance: £10 members
Bonnacons of Doom + Obey Cobra
The Lexington 📶
N1 9JB
£15
Noctural Emissions / Bride / False Widow / Ekstasis
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£10 - £14
Industrial / noise / drone
Shovel Dance Collective + Haress
Kings Place (Hall One) ✅
N1 9AG
£18 + bf
As part of Folk Weekend: State of the Nations concert series
Sloth Racket + Anthropods
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10; £9.38 advance
Ssaliva + LA Timpa [LIVE]
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£13.80
Terra Obscura: Oma Totem (live), Beatrice M, Pjenné & Avsluta b2b Alicia
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£17.30
That Travis + Jakepls + Miles Lukoszevieze + ~T•*}{L#|\ (Duo: Tata Cheng and Lucas Yoshimura)
Stoke Newington Old Church ♿️
N16 9ES
£12
Ambient / noise night
Tirzah + Cold + feeo
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
from £10
as part of In the Round festival
20th April (Sat)
Aisha Devi + Rat Section
ICA ♿️
SW1Y 5AH
£23.64
BIG RICHARD'S BIG ALL-DAYER: ELLiS-D, Westside Cowboy, King Mackerel, Empires, Empires, Sodden Pelt, Sharkpit
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£10
Dresden Extended - Ivan Smagghe, Manfredas, Lola Haro, SUCHI
Corsica Studios ♿️
SE17 1LB
£10/£12/£15/£16.50
Eve Libertine + Eve Leblanc
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£10
Former Crass vocalist + experimental electronic artist (as part of Horse Hospital's month-long series of talks and screenings on the work of Crass, most of which fall outside this newsletter's purview but are listed in full on the HH website).
James "Blood" Ulmer Residency (Day One)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£29; £28 advance; £22 members; series pass £52 advance (£40 members)
Legendary freak jazz/blues guitarist, Ornette Coleman collaborator, harmolodics practitioner
Scrounge + Don't Worry
The Old Spotted Dog ✅
E7 9NP
£4
Scrounge and Don't Worry represent their respective local sides after Clapton Community FC's game against Harlow Town - gig taking place in the club house after the match!
Sweet Bwoyz #3 with anu 404 eros + special guest (NTS)
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£16.10/£17.30
Vashti Bunyan + Oisin Leech
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
from £20
as part of In the Round festival
21st April (Sun)
Alasdair Roberts
Kings Place (Hall Two) ✅
N1 9AG
£16 + bf
Domenico Lancellotti & Ricardo Dias Gomes (MATINÉE)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £15 advance; £10 members
James "Blood" Ulmer Residency (Day Two)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£29; £28 advance; £22 members; series pass £52 advance (£40 members)
See 20/4
Julian Lage
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
£25-35
Stupidly good NY jazz guitarist known for work w Nels Cline and John Zorn -- solo work def on the smooth side but offset w an ear for surprising improvisatory turns.
Luft + 1 (Alan Newcombe / James O'Sullivan / Chris Fowler / Dave Fowler) + Quartet FECK (Faradena Afifi / Ed Shipsey / Chris Hill / Kostas Chondros) (MATINÉE)
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 on door
"No messing around, straightforward ensemble improvisation!" (quote from website)
MOPOMOSO: John Butcher / Phil Durrant / Mark Wastell + N.O. Moore / Dom Lash / Roger Turner + Mike Adcock / Stuart Wilding (MATINÉE)
Vortex ✅🅰️
N16 8AZ
£12; concessions £8
UK's longest running free improv concert series. John Butcher (sax) and Roger Turner (percussion) in particular are improv legends !!
22nd April (Mon)
Konus Quartett "Radical Songs" - Didem Conkuseven + Odorinomori (Minami Saeki / Christian Kobi / Tomas Korber)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
As part of A Festival of Some Sorts
Lisel + Rosie Tee
Servant Jazz Quarters 📶
N16 8JN
£13
23rd April (Tue)
Christian Kobi + Ecka Mordecai / David Toop / Christian Kobi
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£14; £12 advance; £7 members
As part of A Festival of Some Sorts
Islands (duo)
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£13.20
Ex-members of the Unicorns
Jlin
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
from £17.50
as part of In the Round festival
Kadonnut Manner
waterintobeer ⏳
SE4 2EW
£5 (suggested donation)
"Finnish Primitive" guitar (as in, music of the post-Fahey continuum but from Finland!)
Sunny Gym, Siblings, Strange Devotion
The Ivy House ☑️
SE15 3BE
£5 + bf, NOTAFLOF
24th April (Wed)
Black Top: Pat Thomas & Orphy Robinson with special guest Sofia Jernberg
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£16; £14 advance: £8 members
PAT THOMAS ALERT. Mind/idiom-bending electroacoustic/collage project
FLIMFLAM: Ståle Liavik Solberg / Dominic Lash + Colin Somervell / Barry Edwards / Neil Metcalfe + Alan Wilkinson / Ross Lambert / Jamie Coleman
Ryan's Bar 📶
N16 0UL
£10/£8 cash on door
Legendary jazz improv night with a rotating cast of heads, cats and players (recurs every last Wednesday of the month)
Hotline TNT
The Dome 📶14+ 🅰️(15-17)
NW5 1HL
£17.87
Kelly Moran
Islington Assembly Hall ✅
N1 2UD
from £21.55
Warp-signed Oneohtrix Point Never associate pianist
Kirin J Callinan
Oslo ♿️
E8 1LL
£15 + bf
Melanie Baker, Luce Rushton, SANDY
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Milkweed
Cecil Sharp House ✅🅰️
NW1 7AY
£15
Ruth Goller
The Tin Tabernacle⏳
NW6 5BA
£15
Bassist celebrates release of her new record of ECM style jazz released on Chicago's International Anthem
25th April (Thu)
Colin Stetson + London Contemporary Orchestra
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £34
Performing score to horror film Hereditary
Eliza Carthy + Jennifer Reid
Cecil Sharp House ✅🅰️
NW1 7AY
£25; £10 under 30s
feeo + Hyperdawn, interlude by abi asisa + momo (dj)
Loki ✅
SW9 7JJ
£12 final release; £10 first release; £7.50 early bird
Personal Trainer + Pom Poko
Electric Ballroom ✅14+ 🅰️ (14-15)
NW1 8QP
£18 + bf
R. Aggs
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£9
Guitar smash hits from lead shredder of Trash Kit / Sacred Paws / Shopping fame
Strangeness of Jazz with Edward George
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£12; £10 advance; £5 members
Amazing sound essay / radio show / theoretical and historical dissertation on jazz music in its live incarnation (FYI usually we do not list listening lessons but this is another level!!)
26th April (Fri)
DJ Rashad 10 Year Memorial w/ DJ Spinn + Ikonika B2B Bok Bok + Scratchclart Jazz Cafe ✅🅰️
NW1 7PG
£10-20 + bf
Club night marking ten years since the passing of footwork pioneer DJ Rashad
Langham Research Centre + Beatriz Ferreyra
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£20; £18 advance; £15 members
Double bill of tape manipulation and electro-acoustic experimentation
Lonnie Holley & Matana Roberts
Roundhouse ✅🅰️(<16)
NW1 8EH
from £17.50
as part of In the Round festival
Miks with Cameo Blush, Sophie McAlister, Supu & Aleksandir
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£14.10
oursoul x Raising Deep
SET Vault ♿️
SE18 6BU
£8/£8.70/£13
Penny Rimbaud + Louise Elliott
Horse Hospital ☑️🅰️
WC1N 1JD
£10
Co-founder of Crass presents music from new record with saxophonist/flautist. As part of Horse Hospital's series of Crass-related events.
Rave2Raise #2 - Raising money for Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Venue MOT ☑️
SE14 5RT
£11.50
TRUDGING MIND: Inhaler, Positive Spin, Hope Stress Dose
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
early bird £5; general admission £8
27th April (Sat)
Action Beat (20th Anniverary) + HAQ123 + Circuit Breaker
New River Studios ♿️
N4 1DN
£13
Bletchley-based G.W. Sok collaborators play improvised noise rock "usually with 3-4 drummers and an inordinate about of guitarists"
Adrianne Lenker with friends
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £31.35 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
BAD VIBRATIONS ALL-DAYER: Search Results, Flip Top Head, Marsy, Paige Kennedy, Curser
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
£9
BRÅK: Cath Roberts, Tom Ward, Colin Webster
waterintobeer ⏳
SE4 2EW
"one Bank of England note on the door"
Free improv
Jaeho Hwang + Neo Geodesia + Tanat Teeradakorn
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£15; £13 advance; £8 members
KTV: 2Lanes, ISO_EXE, Rudefood, Nightbather visuals
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
from £8
Skewed From View [03]
Ormside Projects 📶
SE15 1TR
£13.80/£15
Tara Cunningham / Caius Williams / Will Glaser
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10 tickets on door only
Wicked improvisers (may or may not be improvising, not sure)
Tim Olive + Rubbish Music (Kate Carr/Iain Chambers) + Matt Atkins/Ivy Nostrum
Hundred Years Gallery ♿️🅰️
E2 8JD
£10 cash only
28th April (Sun)
Adrianne Lenker with friends
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £31.35 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Adrianne Lenker with friends (MATINÉE)
Barbican Music Hall ✅🅰️
EC2Y 8DS
from £31.35 (SOLD OUT; waiting list only)
Fiesta En El Vacío + Acte Bonté
Black Tower Projects ♿️
SE26 5TW
£10
Franco-Argentinian double bill of "synthesised experimentalism" and "obsessional loops [b/w] occasional kicks"
jano: Yewen Jin, excel dj, sseq
Avalon Cafe ♿️
SE14 5RZ
£9 + bf
New-ish night at Avalon where each artist explores the breadth of their practise across two different sets. Music gets more danceable as night progresses; plus buffet of Vietnamese delicacies.
Mu Tate, Aircode, Dekalb Works, Ramo
Spanners ♿️
SW9 7EX
£10
Raven Chacon / Iggor Cavalera duo (MATINÉE)
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£17; £15 advance; £10 members
Zoh Amba's Bhakti w/ Zoh Amba, Farida Amadou & Chris Corsano (Trio) Residency - Day One
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 advance; £12 members
29th April (Mon)
Zoh Amba's Bhakti w/ Zoh Amba, Farida Amadou & Chris Corsano (Trio) Residency - Day Two
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£18; £16 advance; £12 members
30th April (Tue)
FLASHBACK RECORDS: Tooth / Bande Á Part / Weaving In Purgatory
Shacklewell Arms ☑️
E8 2EB
FREE
Hasfeldt + Mirror Organs + Misha Faulty
Cafe OTO ♿️🅰️(<18)
E8 3DL
£10; £8 advance; £6 members
Post-club ambience