Michel Doneda soprano saxophone
Jonas Kocher accordion, objects

Accordion and saxophone, an association of more conventional after all, but beware! the sign is never the road! Kocher and Doneda have their own way, reinvesting their respective instruments by focusing on the infinitely small, in the heart of the matter, the elusive textures, projects in the real space traversed. They improvise, but this “spontaneity” was extensively worked in order to let the energy flow with the least interference possible. Take the body of the movement as we take a train, his legs or his dreams. Anyway, the vehicle developed in real time by the saxophone and the accordion is wide enough to accommodate every traveler curious to follow a road that will only exist for him, in time for aimless listening but highly stimulating to the senses.

Recordings: ‘Action Mécanique’, soon out on Flexion Records

http://www.jonaskocher.net/index.php?page=projects&nom=2

Michel and Jonas appear thanks to…

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WOLF SCARERS (CD Launch)

Wolf Scarers are Simon Prince and Keith Jafrate, both playing tenor saxophones. They’ve known each other for years but have never played together until, after appearing on the same bill at Huddersfield’s Inclusive Improv last year, it occurred to Simon to suggest some duets. So they got together at Oldham Music Centre and scared the pigeons in the neighbourhood for a few Fridays, and Wolf Scarers emerged. Both Simon and Keith have played all sorts of music in the past, and you can hear this in their improvisations, that swerve from gentle meditations that almost become chamber music across to full-blown shout-ups in the true tenor tradition, via, possibly, messed-up marching band funk and deconstructed jazz strut. (No computers are harmed in the making of their music.)

This will be the first opportunity to get your hands on Simon and Keith’s debut album ‘Throat’, released that day on Noise Upstairs Records.

Exciting times!

Click here to download the performances