Counterflows 2022
31 March - 3 April
Counterflows Festival 2022 emerged from the darkness of the last couple of years, refreshed and excited by the idea of live music. There were so many blistering sets this year, including [Ahmed]’s set at the Glue Factory, which was recorded and released under the title ‘Wood Blues’. We also welcomed new commissioned work Tom Mudd & The Gorbals Youth Brass Band, Brìghde Chaimbeul & Vasco Alves, Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock, and more.
Festival Documentation (10)
Festival Schedule
Brighde Chaimbeul & Vasco Alves, Tom Mudd & Gorbals Youth Brass Band, Roy Claire Potter & Park Jiha
Thu 31 March 2022, 18:30
After over 2 years of absence, Counterflows Festival kicks off with 3 sets of unlikely sets of collaborations. Skye-born Brìghde Chaimbeul has devised a new way of arranging for bagpipe music that emphasises rich textural drones and a trance-like constancy of sound. Meeting her in a first time duo performance will be Vasco Alves, whose […]
Counterflows Hang-out with Max Syedtollan (DJ)
Thu 31 March 2022, 22:00
Join us for a drink and hang-out in the lovely Civic House. Max Syedtollan will be spinning tunes on the decks. Please note that capacity for this is limited and based on first-come-first-serve.
Ghost Tunes Installation
Fri 1 April 2022, 12:00
Emerging from conversations between Counterflows director Alasdair Campbell and Australian audio conceptual artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Ghost Tunes explores ideas around language, landscape and the way these are fundamental to culture. Joining Flynn and Humphrey as artists in the project are Cass Ezeji and Josie Vallely from Scotland, and Cass Lynch, Mei Swan […]
[Ahmed] & Edward George
Fri 1 April 2022, 13:00
Writer, broadcaster, Black Audio Film Collective member and host of the renowned Strangeness of Dub, Edward George, hosts a presentation and discussion with the group [Ahmed], who will perform on Saturday night as part of Counterflows Festival. Investigating the work of Ahmed Abdul-Malik – an American jazz double bassist and oud player, remembered for integrating […]
Counterflows Hang-out with James Marrs (DJ)
Fri 1 April 2022, 15:30
Join us for a drink and hang-out in the lovely Civic House. James Marrs (Laura Lies In) will be spinning tunes on the decks. Please note that capacity for this is limited and based on first-come-first-serve.
Mountain Full Edition, Olivia Furey
Fri 1 April 2022, 18:00
The Friday evening of Counterflows dives in with two mischievous acts that challenge and subvert any standardised notion of what consists of a ‘band’. Kyoto’s Mountain: Full Edition (Misako Yabuuchi, Kentaro Imai and Kiuchi Hitomi) open the evening, presenting their deliciously odd cross-disciplinary work together in Europe for the 1st time. “Like an ever transforming […]
Petronn Sphene, Harrga
Fri 1 April 2022, 20:00
The walls of the Glue Factory rattle with intense and overflowing performances from two exciting new UK-based artists. Harrga means ‘A Burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect, and also recalls the term harragas, which refers to migrants who burn their ID papers and seek asylum in Europe. Dedicating their work to those who fall at […]
Counterflows Hang-out with Ailie Ormston (DJ)
Fri 1 April 2022, 22:30
Join us for a drink and hang-out in the lovely Civic House. Ailie Ormston will be spinning tunes on the decks. Please note that capacity for this is limited and based on first-come-first-serve.
Ghost Tunes Installation
Sat 2 April 2022, 12:00
Emerging from conversations between Counterflows director Alasdair Campbell and Australian audio conceptual artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Ghost Tunes explores ideas around language, landscape and the way these are fundamental to culture. Joining Flynn and Humphrey as artists in the project are Cass Ezeji and Josie Vallely from Scotland, and Cass Lynch and Mei […]
Hafez Modirzadeh & Alexander Hawkins
Sat 2 April 2022, 13:00
Pleased to welcome composer, saxophonist and theorist Hafez Modirzadeh to Scotland for the first time. Focusing on his “chromodal” concept, a cross-cultural musical approach developed from American jazz and Iranian dastgah heritages, he’ll present work on saxophone in collaboration with pianist Alexander Hawkins. With eight piano keys re-tuned and the remainder left in equal temperament, […]
Jessica Ekomanne, Richard Youngs & Sophie Cooper
Sat 2 April 2022, 14:30
French-born and Berlin-based electronic artist Jessica Ekomane presents a quadraphonic performance, seeking a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in questions such as the relationship between individual perception and collective dynamics or the investigation […]
Counterflows Hang-out with Oliver Pitt (DJ)
Sat 2 April 2022, 17:00
Join us for a drink and hang-out in the lovely Civic House. Oliver Pitt will be spinning tunes on the decks. Please note that capacity for this is limited and based on first-come-first-serve.
Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock: Re-Imagining / Re-Conversation
Sat 2 April 2022, 18:00
[Ahmed], Sunik Kim, Nat Raha
Sat 2 April 2022, 19:00
A night of rhythm, sound, structures and words in a dance. Opening the evening will be a solo set from Nat Raha, an Edinburgh-based poet and activist-scholar. Her work addresses sexuality and gender, critical theory and Marxism, contemporary poetry and poetics, through creative and critical methods. Sunik Kim is a Korean musician, writer and filmmaker, […]
Late Night Counterflows: Bonaventure, aya (DJ) & Ira (DJ)
Sat 2 April 2022, 23:00
We decided to do just one clubnight as part of Counterflows this year, but you are all in for a treat… After some killer mixes for Clyde Built Radio, Glasgow’s Ira will open the evening with his trademark swinging afrobeats, dancehall and twisted house. Following on from her brilliant ‘i’m hole’ album in 2021 on […]
Ghost Tunes
Sun 3 April 2022, 12:00
Emerging from conversations between Counterflows director Alasdair Campbell and Australian audio conceptual artists Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Ghost Tunes explores ideas around language, landscape and the way these are fundamental to culture. Joining Flynn and Humphrey as artists in the project are Cass Ezeji and Josie Vallely from Scotland, and Cass Lynch and Mei […]
Counterflows Record & Book Fair
Sun 3 April 2022, 12:00
Come and join us in the CCA Foyer for a small publishers fair, featuring some of the best people and organisations releasing records, tapes, zines and more in the UK just now. Including stalls from: Easter Road Press Cafe OTO Laura Lies In GLARC Rob Churm Fritz Welch Malcy Duff Concrete Cabin Night School Good […]
CCA Events
Sun 3 April 2022, 13:00
Still House Plants, aya featuring Iceboy Violet, Jana Rush
Sun 3 April 2022, 18:00
**due to complications arising from her visa application, we’re absolutely gutted to announced that MC Yallah & Debmaster are unable to join us for Counterflows this year. In her place we’re very happy to welcome Chicago’s Jana Rush.** After a weekend of far-reaching sounds, we head to the rivers of the Clyde for one final […]
DJs / Closing party
Sun 3 April 2022, 22:00
A final hurrah on The Ferry to celebrate the end of Counterflows for another year. Counterflows Family DJs on the decks.
31 March 2022
31 March 2022
1 April 2022
Ghost Tunes Installation
[Ahmed] & Edward George
Counterflows Hang-out with James Marrs (DJ)
Mountain Full Edition, Olivia Furey
Petronn Sphene, Harrga
Counterflows Hang-out with Ailie Ormston (DJ)
2 April 2022
Ghost Tunes Installation
Hafez Modirzadeh & Alexander Hawkins
Jessica Ekomanne, Richard Youngs & Sophie Cooper
Counterflows Hang-out with Oliver Pitt (DJ)
Hannan Jones & Shamica Ruddock: Re-Imagining / Re-Conversation
[Ahmed], Sunik Kim, Nat Raha
Late Night Counterflows: Bonaventure, aya (DJ) & Ira (DJ)
Artists
[Ahmed]
Alexander Hawkins
aya
Bonaventure
Brìghde Chaimbeul
Chris Dooks
Debmaster
Diaki
Edward George
Ghost Tunes
Hafez Modirzadeh
Hannan Jones
Harrga
Iceboy Violet
Ira (DJ)
Jessica Ekomane
MC Yallah
Mountain / Full Edition
Nat Raha
Olivia Furey
Pantayo
Park Jiha
Petronn Sphene
Richard Youngs
Roy Claire Potter
Shamica Ruddock
Sophie Cooper
Still House Plants
Sunik Kim
The Gorbals Youth Brass Band
Tom Mudd
Vasco Alves
Commissions
The Gorbals Youth Brass Band
Tom Mudd
Tom Mudd & The Gorbals Youth Brass Band
Counterflows on Paper 2022
Multiple Artists
Ghost Tunes Album & Publication
Posts
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. After performing, they met for the first time and found they both had a rapport and equal fascination with each others work. We decided […]
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. In this the final episode, Edward […]
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. For the […]
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. In this second episode, broadcaster […]
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. Despite the language barrier the combination worked seamlessly, with Roy editing together […]
[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 […]
Updates
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 […]
Photos of Counterflows 2022
All images by Dawid Laskowski
