Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Harry Christelis – Guitar
Christos Stylianides – Trumpet
Andrea Di Biase – Double Bass
Dave Storey – Drums
About
“Compelling ambient music pitched somewhere between In A Silent Way-era Miles Davis and late-era Talk Talk” – The Guardian
Immersive and thought provoking original contemporary jazz by a quartet of highly acclaimed musicians, led by guitarist Harry Christelis.
Whilst Christelis (guitar and composition) is the ostensible group leader of the quartet, there is a palpably communal sense about the band. It is a group that produces explorative contemporary jazz, with deep musical conversation between all the players. Featuring Christos Stylianides (trumpet), Andrea Di Biase (double bass) and Dave Storey (drums), each draw on their divergent experience and pedigree to colour, shape and delineate the soundworlds evoked. The music brings to mind the Fourth Worlds of Jon Hassell, and the deep space of ECM. But these are mere comparisons. The quartet’s debut album ‘Nurture The Child / Challenge The Adult’ draws you into an ecosystem you have never visited before – a place you’d want to spend an hour: comfortably unfamiliar, intimately remote, beguilingly melancholic, and distressingly beautiful.
“Music with a serene beauty” – Kevin Le Gendre of BBC Radio 3
“The music’s beauty becomes clearer with every play” – Jazzwise
“Beautiful performances, rich in terms of colour, texture and ambience and often possessed of an atmospheric, cinematic quality.” – The Jazzmann