CENTRIFUGE

Concert No. 43

Manchester

 The Blank Canvas Octet July Concert featuring Hedge & The Blank Canvas Octet

The adventurous, innovative Dutch band The Ex exists 38 years this year and is still going strong. New projects, new adventures, new songs and new sounds are the norm.

The Ex has defied categorization ever since they started playing in 1979. Born out of the punk explosion, when anything and everything was possible, the band have still managed to retain both curiosity and passion for their music. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as

their starting point, The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day.

Already the early 1980s saw collaborations with jazz musicians and an Iraqi-Kurdish band. In the 90s the group found a myriad of partners from varied musical and non-musical backgrounds like Kamagurka, Tom Cora, Sonic Youth, Han Bennink, Jan Mulder and

Shellac. In 2002 The Ex set up a lively musical exchange with Ethiopia, organized many projects over there and invited several Ethiopian musicians to Europe. Most striking was

the collaboration with the legendary saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria, which eventually led to two CD recordings and more than a hundred concerts.

The band also started organizing the ‘Ex Festivals’, where they invited their favorite musicians. A mix of jazz improvisers, musicians from all over the world and local treasures they came across on tour. 

The last few years saw collaborations with Brass Unbound

(Wolter Wierbos, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark and Roy Paci), Circus Debre Berhan and Fendika, both from Ethiopia, and many, many more. After all these years, more than 25 albums and around 1900 concerts the band continues to work as they did in when they began, completely independent of record companies, managers or roadies. Because of this ‘do it yourself’ work ethic The Ex is still a great example for other forward-thinking bands and musicians.

Tickets on sale via SEE Tickets

https://www.facebook.com/events/293922504471989/

Wharf Chambers Cooperative Club, 23-25 Wharf St, Leeds LS2 7EQ, UK

Saturday, June 23 at 7 PM - 10:45 PM

The adventurous, innovative Dutch band The Ex exists 38 years this year and is still going strong. New projects, new adventures, new songs and new sounds are the norm.

The Ex has defied categorization ever since they started playing in 1979. Born out of the punk explosion, when anything and everything was possible, the band have still managed to retain both curiosity and passion for their music. Using guitars, bass, drums and voice as
their starting point, The Ex have continued to musically explore undiscovered areas right up to the present day.

Already the early 1980s saw collaborations with jazz musicians and an Iraqi-Kurdish band. In the 90s the group found a myriad of partners from varied musical and non-musical backgrounds like Kamagurka, Tom Cora, Sonic Youth, Han Bennink, Jan Mulder and
Shellac. In 2002 The Ex set up a lively musical exchange with Ethiopia, organized many projects over there and invited several Ethiopian musicians to Europe. Most striking was
the collaboration with the legendary saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria, which eventually led to two CD recordings and more than a hundred concerts.

The band also started organizing the ‘Ex Festivals’, where they invited their favorite musicians. A mix of jazz improvisers, musicians from all over the world and local treasures they came across on tour. 

The last few years saw collaborations with Brass Unbound
(Wolter Wierbos, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark and Roy Paci), Circus Debre Berhan and Fendika, both from Ethiopia, and many, many more. After all these years, more than 25 albums and around 1900 concerts the band continues to work as they did in when they began, completely independent of record companies, managers or roadies. Because of this ‘do it yourself’ work ethic The Ex is still a great example for other forward-thinking bands and musicians.

Tickets on sale via SEE Tickets

https://www.facebook.com/events/293922504471989/

Wharf Chambers Cooperative Club, 23-25 Wharf St, Leeds LS2 7EQ, UK
Saturday, June 23 at 7 PM - 10:45 PM

A true legend of the British avant-garde,

Das Rad is a trio of Nick Robinson (guitar and electronics), Martin Archer (saxophone and electronics) and Steve Dinsdale (drums and electronics).

Contemporary composition/improv does not get much better than this. - Nick Lea JAZZ VIEWS

Orfeo 5 (Keith Jafrate – saxophones, Shaun Blezard – electronics) play what might best be described as

Sheffield's groundbreaking antichoir, Juxtavoices,

Hornweb are an all-saxophone collective organised by Martin Archer

Clang Sayne "A singular, defiantly independent voice in the lineage of Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Bjork."