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Counterflows at Cafe OTO
Scotland’s longest running festival of experimental music, Counterflows, lands in London’s cauldron of creativity that is Café Oto for 3 days of exciting performances. Featuring Scottish and Scottish-based artists either in solo or in collaboration, the mini festival gives a snapshot of the wide-range of innovative music being made today from the land of haggis, […]
Counterflows on Paper 2021
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, designed by Oliver Pitt and printed and bound in Glasgow by Good Press. The Zine also […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
