PASSING NANCARROW

Jazz and blues seem to sweet-talk us into the eye of a hurricane is how legendary American broadcaster Helen Borten describes the wild, proto-electronic music of American-Mexican composer Conlon Nancarrow.

Marking 30 years since the iconoclast’s passing in 1997, UK composer and turntablist Matt Wright teams up in 2027 with BL!NDMAN and jazz pianist Alexander Hawkins to pass through that hurricane, creating brand new music that collides the influences of Nancarrow, late 90s ‘electronic music’ that was prominent in the UK at the time of his passing, and the current Black MIDI movement of ‘impossible music’ he posthumously inspired.

Wright sees Nancarrow as part of a diaspora of radical musical thinkers who have looked to the unreal to make new futures possible. Expect fractured rhythmic grooves that collapse through the floor, whilst BL!NDMAN [hybrid] create wild flurries of notes that raise the roof.