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Counterflows at Home 2022
Following on from April’s exhilarating and very welcome live edition of Counterflows, we bring the second edition of our online edition. After 2021’s success of Counterflows At Home we were encouraged to continue to develop a way to share artist’s work beyond the realm of live performance. With this online edition we hope to provide […] Read more →At Home Programme
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Tom Mudd & The Gorbals Youth Brass Band
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Ghost Tunes Album & Publication
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Counterflows on Paper 2022
INTERVIEW
In Conversation: Brighde Chaimbeul, Vasco Alves and Alasdair Campbell
INTERVIEW
In Conversation: Petronn Sphene and Sunik Kim
PODCAST
[Ahmed] and the legacy of Ahmed Abdul-Malik
PODCAST
Park Jiha and Roy Claire Potter in conversation — ‘Emotion in the commons’
PODCAST
Edward George on Kuduro – Episode 2: Fight the Power: Kuduro’s Hip Hop Connections
PODCAST
Edward George on Kuduro – Episode 3: Kuduro International



INTERVIEW – Counterflows 2022
In Conversation: Brighde Chaimbeul, Vasco Alves and Alasdair Campbell
At Counterflows 2022's opening night we brought together a series of projects combining artists from different musical backgrounds and approaches to their work. After a series of zoom meetings, Brighde Chaimbeul and Vasco Alves came together for two days of rehearsal and exploration of their two different approaches to the pipes in Glasgow. Read more →

INTERVIEW – Counterflows 2022
In Conversation: Petronn Sphene and Sunik Kim
Petronn Sphene and Sunik Kim both performed amazing sets at Counterflows 2022, spilling their overflowing, amorphous sounds off the Glue Factory walls on the Friday and Saturday nights of the festival. Read more →

PODCAST – Counterflows 2022
[Ahmed] and the legacy of Ahmed Abdul-Malik
The writer and broadcaster Edward George explores the multiple resonances, versions and iterations of the jazz ensemble [Ahmed] and the inspiration behind them, Ahmed Abdul-Malik. In what was an experimental take on the live ‘in conversation’, Edward took to the stage at Glasgow’s community central halls to develop his theory around the strangeness of jazz and how the version echoes back through the history of the form, linking past and future. Read more →

PODCAST – Counterflows 2022
Park Jiha and Roy Claire Potter in conversation — ‘Emotion in the commons’
South Korean musician Park Jiha joined English artist and writer Roy Claire Potter for an improvised collaboration for Counterflows 2022. They were initially brought together by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction in 2020, where they met in Maida Vale for the first time. Read more →

PODCAST – Counterflows 2022
Edward George on Kuduro – Episode 2: Fight the Power: Kuduro’s Hip Hop Connections
Kuduro is the electronic dance music of a generation born and raised during Angola's traumatic and protracted civil war. It started life on Angola's margins, in the clubs and ghettos of the nation's capital, Luanda, before being co-opted by the government to become the state sanctioned sound of post-war Angola. Read more →

PODCAST – Counterflows 2022
Edward George on Kuduro – Episode 3: Kuduro International
Kuduro is the electronic dance music of a generation born and raised during Angola's traumatic and protracted civil war. It started life on Angola's margins, in the clubs and ghettos of the nation's capital, Luanda, before being co-opted by the government to become the official sound of post-war Angola. Read more →
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9 June 2022
Counterflows at Home 2022
8 June 2022
Photos of Counterflows 2022
6 April 2022
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5 April 2022