Counterflows 2025
3-6 April
Our first year where several events took place in the Woodside Halls, a venue which now feels to us a spiritual home. So many highlights, including new trio material from Nakul Krishnamurthy, Tom Mudd and Ankna Arockiam, the first time European performances by Vietnamese artists Tran Uy Duc and Vu Ah Han, a rare performance by glorious Japanese ramshackle group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and so much more.
Festival Documentation (30)
Festival Schedule
The Handover + Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh + Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks
Thu 3 April 2025, 18:30
For several of our past opening events at Counterflows we’ve kicked things off with “folk night,” and this year we’re pleased to revive the tradition at a new venue for us, the beautiful Woodside Halls. We’ve all heard the term “all music is folk music”, but what about music that specifically delves into past traditions […]
Counterflows Hang-Out with Uzganc Choir
Thu 3 April 2025, 22:30
Counterflows Hang-Outs are time to gather your thoughts and chat in between events. Our first late night Hang-out takes place in the Art School’s Assembly Hall, where the wonderful 18-strong Uzganc choir led by Martin Steuck (aka Wormhook) will bring the 1st evening to a rousing close. Uzganc Choir is a vehicle to experiment with […]
Masa Nazzal – Slovenia Inshallah – Launch & Performance
Fri 4 April 2025, 13:30
Join Masa Nazzal as she launches and perform parts of her debut tape release on Glasgow’s GLARC cassette label, Slovenia Inshallah. *Please note the change in venue. The event will now take place in The Mackintosh Church* Slovenia Inshallah is a mixtape created by Masa Nazzal and Ilyas Titaou. Masa spent three months working in […]
Counterflows Hang-Out
Fri 4 April 2025, 16:00
Counterflows Hang-Outs are time to gather your thoughts and chat in between events. Join us at Civic House for some curiously gentle sounds and some wonderful food by Paveen. The Hang-Out is open to people of all ages.
Amina Claudine Myers + Nisha Ramayya + Ankna Arockiam/Nakul Krishnamurthy/Tom Mudd + feeo
Fri 4 April 2025, 18:30
Friday welcomes a packed bill of song, sound and poetry winding in and around threads in Black and Indian radical traditions, as well as explorations of the self, the collective, and beyond. Opening the evening we welcome London based feeo, a relatively new project whose work explores the interior and exterior via their glorious songcraft, […]
Counterflows Hang-Out with Tran Uy Duc
Fri 4 April 2025, 22:30
For this hang-out we bring to the spotlight the artists who have taken part in our 2025 Cove Park Residency: Vietnam’s Tran Uy Duc and Vu Ha Anh, and Scotland’s Sholto Dobie and Inge Thomson. After a week working, sharing, eating and exploring possibilities together they’ll gather in the CCA’s foyer space. Tran Uy Duc […]
Amina Claudine Myers in discussion with Adele Oliver
Sat 5 April 2025, 13:00
A rare chance to hear Amina Claudine Myers’ story from her own voice, tracing her life and career’s trajectory through her early days in Chicago’s AACM collective, her solo work, collaborative work (including stints with Lester Bowie, Archie Shepp and Wadada Leo Smith) and her music today. Amina’s deep absorption in jazz, the avante-garde, blues, […]
Yan Jun + Ash Reid
Sat 5 April 2025, 15:00
We have been waiting for this moment for a while. Back in 2021 Yan Jun made a wonderful podcast for us as part of our Counterflows at Home Festival, mapping the sounds of everyday life in Beijing and its underground music scene. Now he has at last made it to Counterflows where we can experience […]
Klein + John Wall + Vũ Hà Anh + Angusraze
Sat 5 April 2025, 19:00
For our Saturday night event we up the tempo and up the weirdness. A packed night welcoming four artists from different musical & cultural backgrounds, held together by their shared dedication to chiselling sonic formations from disparate and contradictory means. Kent’s ANGUSRAZE kick off proceedings with their queer and explosive crashing together of pop, experimental […]
Foodman + Brunnera + gyrofield + Akumu
Sat 5 April 2025, 23:00
We return to the spiritual home for our clubnights, the Glasgow School of Art, for a night of exploring high-tempo experimental sounds from the East Asian diaspora, as well as a few of our favourite Glasgow based acts. The party will take place in the upstairs Assembly Hall, and we’ll have the Vic Bar downstairs […]
Counterflows Publisher’s Fair
Sun 6 April 2025, 12:00
It’s become a tradition now that at each Sunday at Counterflows we present a fair, welcoming stalls from our favourite small publishers. Expect records, cassettes, books, zines and various other nick nacks. This event is free entry and welcome to everyone We’ll be welcoming: Laura Lies In 12th Isle Al White Rob Churm Fritz Welch […]
Maher Shalal Hash Baz with Bill Wells & Danielle Price + Sonic Bothy
Sun 6 April 2025, 19:00
Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Sonic Bothy is a double bill we’ve been keen to organise for some time, and we can’t think of a better way of closing the curtain on the festival. Both acts offer radical and inclusive approaches to song and improvisation that cohere so many things about the strangeness, joy and […]
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Artists
Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh
Akumu
Amina Claudine Myers
ANGUSRAZE
Ankna Arockiam / Tom Mudd / Nakul Krishnamurthy
Ash Reid
Brunnera
feeo
Foodman
gyrofield
John Wall
Klein
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Masa Nazzal
Nisha Ramayya
Sonic Bothy
The Handover
Tran Uy Duc
Uzganc Choir
Vũ Hà Anh
Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks
Yan Jun
Posts
Counterflows on Paper 2025
Counterflows on Paper is a collection of specially commissioned pieces spanning text, poetry, illustration and comics, collated into a limited edition Zine. Spanning a wild range of topics across its 30 pages, the Zine was edited by Joel White, Helen Charman and Emmie McLuskey, designed by Oliver Pitt and printed and bound in Glasgow by […]
Updates
Counterflows 2025
As the 2025 edition of Counterflows fades into the distance we just wanted to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone that made this edition such a joyous occasion. All the artists, the wonderous audience and the whole Counterflows team were magnificent. Each venue and their teams played a huge role in making the festival run […]
Counterflows Festival 2025. April 3-6, Glasgow. Tickets on sale now
After a year off Counterflows – Scotland’s longest running experimental music festival – is back. After a busy 2024, which welcomed a London showcase at Café Oto, the launch of Still House Plants latest album and a collaboration with our pals at Arika for their Episode 11, we are relieved and buzzing to be deep […]
