NEW JAZZ STROUD FILM RELEASES COMING OUT NOVEMBER 2022
Goodshed Sessions filmed live at Brunel Goods Shed, Stroud
Jazz Stroud teamed up with Tarsier Creative, d&b audiotechnik and SVA with funding through the PRS for Music Foundation to produce a series of pre-recorded performances from Jazz Stroud artists. These artists were orginally booked to play in 2020, but Jazz Stroud was forced to take 18 months off live events due to the pandemic.
The Goodshed Sessions include performances by Yelfris Valdes, Sarathy Korwar, Ishmael Ensemble, Griz-O, JSSO, Mermaid Chunky, Waldo's Gift, Roella Oloro, Tim Davies will be released throughout November.
Check www.jazzstroud.org for updates on release dates
James Vine, drums. Harry Stoneham, bass and Alun Elliot-Williams, guitar.
Filmed live at the Brunel Goods Shed on 11th April 2021 by Tarsier Creative - www.tarsiercreative.com
Director and cam op - Callum Chaplin
Cam op - Motz Workman
Recording - Rob Pemberton
Sound tech - Jack Page
Coordination - Neil Walker
Waldo’s Gift
Release: 1st November 2022
Waldo's Gift first met at a smokey jam session, in a central Bristol industrial estate and since then have been combining elements of groove, jazz, math and classical music to formulate their unique sound. Showcasing their own hybrid of groove, math and jazz plus hosting a weekly night at Bristol's The Gallimaufry, where they invite some of the city's finest to collaborate with them; Waldos Gift has emerged as a new force, combining blinding technique with real creative musical insight and authenticity. Featuring James Vine on drums, Harry Stoneham on bass and Alun Elliot-Williams on guitar.
'Waldo's Gift takes inspiration from electronic music heavyweights such as Aphex Twin and Teebs as well as their collective love-affair with early-noughties metal, the trio take listeners into completely uncharted sonic territory'
BandCamp
‘This is something really special'
Mary Anne, Hobbs
‘ John Peel would have played that’
Gilles Peterson
‘Their intensely improvisatory approach is dominated by the physicality of the live experience’
Clash Magazine
‘Improvisation at its absolute peak’
BBC Introducing
‘A new take on the guitar, bass, drums trio. Owing as much to lying Lotus as John Coltrane’s'
BBC 3 Jazz Now
Read more about Waldos Gift
Griz-o with Roella Ollero and Rory Thomas Lawton
Filmed live at the Brunel Goods Shed on 10th April 2021 by Tarsier Creative
Director and cam op - Callum Chaplin
Cam op - Motz Workman
Recording - Rob Pemberton
Sound tech - Jack Page
Coordination - Neil Walker
Griz-O
Release: 2nd November 2022
The new Jazz Stroud series ‘Good Shed Sessions’ rolls on this week, with The South West Sicko performing live in the round.
Griz-O is an MC defined by his bold & direct approach. Based in the UK’s SouthWest, he totes lyrics & artwork that nod to martial arts; he has the combative, tough-talking braggadocio to match, delivered through smart, head-turning bars. Embracing an experimental, grizzly sound, influenced by grime & rap, his career thus far has already seen him travel as far afield as Kazakhstan to play a show.
JSSO with Rory Thomas Lawton, Freya Tate and Moina-Moina with special guests Imogen Dash and Griz-O
Release: 2nd November 2022 6pm
Filmed live at the Brunel Goods Shed on 10th April 2021 by Tarsier Creative - www.tarsiercreative.com
Director and cam op - Callum Chaplin
Cam op - Motz Workman
Recording - Rob Pemberton
Sound tech - Jack Page
Coordination - Neil Walker
JSSO
Release: 2nd November 2022
Improvised Brass Powered Dance Music
A Live Electronic Music Collective. With analog synths, brass and guest vocalist, JSSO Project has performed an improvised show for many years and have collected their jam's into an Album recorded over lockdown.
Read more about JSSO here
GOODSHED SESSION ARCHIVE 2021
Amongst all the uncertainty of 2020-21, we decided to come together and create an environment at The Goods Shed for performances in the round using d&b audiotechnik Soundscape but with the addition of a central speaker cluster, inspired by Alabaster de Plume’s ‘Peach’ Nights and Church of Sound. Funded through the PRS foundation and with additional help from the SVA, this was our way of supporting some of the artists that we have worked with in the past and build new relationships with artists we admire. There are more performances to come from the likes of Sarathy Korwar, Waldo’s Gift and Griz-o so keep your eyes peeled!
ISHMAEL ENSEMBLE
4.4.21
Watch the performance here
Multi-instrumentalist and producer Pete Cunningham, aka Ishmael, sees himself as being on the fringes of UK jazz and electronic music. As a saxophonist, he leads the Ishmael Ensemble, experimental jazzwise electronica, inspired by the Bristol sound, smooth club grooves and swirling electro expanses, above which the soulful vocals appear suspended. The blend of urban beats, jazz idiom and trip-hop heritage almost inadvertently envelops the listener in a smoky after-hours atmosphere. Performing live with the band is singer Holly Wellington, aka Holysseus Fly.
Film: Tarsier Creative, Locodooms
Sound: Rob Pemberton and Jack Page.
Yelfris Veldes, photo by Mark Saunders
Yelfris Valdes
21.2.21
Watch the performance here
Yelfirs Valdes - Trumpet, Al MacSween - keys, Ernesto Marichales - drums, Marcus Mcneish - bass
Film: Tarsier Creative, Locodooms
Sound: Rob Pemberton and Jack Page.
'This guy is a very important new generation Cuban Artist' - Gilles Peterson BBC 6 Music
'The Incredible Afrocuban Trumpeter player... Yelfris Valdes, sounds like his horn could be made of glass!' - Mary Anne Hobbs – BBC 6 Music
'Yelfris is the don! he has an ear for music like none other & he’s one my favourite players' - Quantic
'With his debut LP the incredible talent Yelfris Valdés is paving the way for the future of the new Cuban sound' - Nick Gold (Grammy Award Winning producer of Buena Vista Social Club)