F-IRE Festival – Rhythmic Frontiers
aaamusic | On 04, May 2011
RHYTHMIC FRONTIERS
a F-IRE Collective festival of music from the edge
26th, 27th & 28th May 2011
King’s Place
90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
Box Office on 020 7520 1490
Reaching into the far corners of the globe, the Rhythmic Frontiers Festival sees F-IRE Collective once again cross the boundaries of jazz, world and roots music. The festival explores traditions old and new, with some new collaborations in an exciting series of concerts ranging from Gypsy music from Budapest with Tcha Limberger to Iranian drumming from Keyvan Chemirani and bebop from Django Bates. The festival also includes shows from Stéphane Payen’s supergroup Thôt, Jonny Phillips’ Oriole and leading on from F-IRE’s educational work, a team of students from the Royal Academy of Music and further afield, playing music from the frontiers of world rhythm.
There will be free presentations mapping the frontiers of world rhythm before each evening’s events.
RHYTHMIC FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 26th – 28th May
THURSDAY 26TH MAY:
PRE-CONCERT TALK: ZARB! , 6.30PM (ST. PANCRAS ROOM)
Price: Free
A talk on the zarb from Iranian scholar and musician Fariborz Kiani. This talk and tonight’s concert is promoted with the help of Nava Arts (www.navaarts.co.uk) the UK’s Centre for classical and regional music of Iran.
THôT WITH KEYVAN CHEMIRANI AND JULIAN SIEGEL, 7.30PM (HALL ONE)
Price: £12.50 £14.50 £17.50 £21.50 Premium Seats £26.50 Saver Seats £9.50
Keyvan Chemirani, leading star of the world’s most famous zarb-playing family, fuses his expressive Iranian drumming tradition to the totally contemporary jazz collision of Stéphane Payen’s supergroup Thôt, the French masters of complex and funky rhythmic soundscapes, with Julian Siegel – the UK’s most wildly adventurous reed player.
FRIDAY 27TH MAY:
PRE-CONCERT TALK: GYPSY MUSIC IN EUROPE WITH SIMON BROUGHTON, 6.30PM (ST. PANCRAS ROOM)
Price: Free
Simon Broughton (editor of Songlines Magazine) introduces the wider picture of Gypsy music in Europe in conversation with some of tonight’s artists.
TCHA LIMBERGER’S BUDAPEST GYPSY ORCHESTRA, 7.30PM (HALL ONE)
Price: £13.50 £15.50 £19.50 £24.50 Premium Seats £29.50 Saver Seats £9.50
Tcha, son of the great Vivi Limberger joins a selection of top Gypsy musicians from Budapest on their debut UK tour presenting the style of music known as Magyar Nota – passionate music familiar to Hungary. Literally translated means Hungarian Song but mostly associated with the Budapest Café music made famous by the Lakatos dynasty.
SATURDAY 28TH MAY:
F-IRE NEW GENERATION BAND WITH STUDENTS FROM ROYAL ACADEMY STUDENTS, 6.00PM (HALL TWO)
Price: FREE but tickets required. Call Box office on 020 7520 1490
Leading on from F-IRE’s educational work, a team of students from the Royal Academy of Music and further afield, plays music from the frontiers of world rhythm, with the participation of Stéphane Payen and Barak Schmool. Music from Brice Wassy, Fabrizio Cassol, Tcha Limberger, Astor Piazzolla, Ivo Papasov, Karim Ziad and others.
DJANGO BATES’ BELOVÈD BIRD, 7.30PM (HALL ONE)
Price: £14.50 £19.50 £24.50 £29.50 Premium Seats £34.50 Saver Seats £9.50
A piano-trio celebration of the music of saxophonist Charlie Parker, with Django Bates on piano, Petter Eldh on double bass and Peter Bruun on drums.
‘Having heard Charlie Parker’s music from my birth onwards, I knew it was good in the way that I knew that food was good. It was nutrition: a life force. I found my hero. The acoustic piano trio is a constellation beloved of jazz listeners and players throughout the world. Seeing the Bill Evans trio at Ronnie Scott’s weeks before he died, and The Bad Plus in Cambridge, were two of my most memorable musical experiences. I decided to use the classic trio line-up for my exploration of Bird’s music.‘ Django Bates
JONNY PHILLIPS’ ORIOLE, 8.00PM (HALL TWO)
Price: £9.50
Jonny Phillips’ sextet, Oriole, perform their epic new album in its entirety – for the very first time. Mementos is highly visual music, celebrating the power of people, places, travels and those moments in time that stay with you long after they have passed. The Oriole line-up includes two Mercury Award nominated artists, Ben Davis and Seb Rochford.
