Counterflows 2022
31 March - 3 April
Counterflows Festival 2022 emerges from the darkness of the last couple of years, refreshed and excited by the idea of live music. Join us for a programme of live music, discussions, club nights and hanging out, spread across 4 days in some of Glasgow’s most interesting venues.
Festival Schedule
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)
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 […]
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
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