Counterflows
Yan Jun + Sue Tompkins
4 March 2026, 18:30
Very pleased to say that alongside Counterflows Festival in April we’ll be presenting some one-off events this year in Glasgow. We’ll be keeping them intimate and strange: true to the Counterflows spirit! The first of these is a pre-festival warm up on the 4th of March, welcoming solo sets two legends who have graced our […]
Arika & Counterflows present Chuquimamani-Condori | Rashad Becker | Sunik Kim | Nat Raha and Ailie Ormston
17 November 2024, 18:30
Very pleased that we will be collaborating with our friends at Arika as part of their upcoming festival: Episode 11 – To End The World As We Know It For the event will be welcoming performances from Chuquimamani-Condori, Rashad Becker, Sunik Kim and a new collaboration with Nat Raha & Ailie Ormston. Episode 11 brings […]
Counterflows at Cafe OTO – Day 3
14 September 2024, 19:30
Pleased to say that Counterflows will be taking over London’s premier experimental music venue Cafe OTO on the 12th, 13th & 14th of September 2024, where we’ll be showcasing a selection of Scottish and Scottish-based artists either solo or in collaboration. The mini-festival gives a snapshot of the wide-range of innovative music being made today […]
Counterflows at Cafe OTO – Day 2
13 September 2024, 19:30
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 at Cafe OTO – Day 1
12 September 2024, 19:30
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, […]
Still House Plants album launch show + Ailie Ormston + Tom Mudd
19 April 2024, 19:00
There might be no Counterflows Festival this year, but we’re super pleased to announce this special show for one of our long-term Counterflows friends: the mighty Still House Plants! Opening for them on the night will be Ailie Ormston, who will be presenting new work for guitar, cello, electronics and double bass. And Tom Mudd, […]
Canto a lo divino – Collective Music Memory from Chile, with Glorias Navales
4 November 2022
Counterflows is excited to share this fascinating project from Chile in both Glasgow and Skye. We invite you to join us for food, film and music at Civic House and with our friends in Skye in partnership with ATLAS Arts at An Talla Mòr, Portree. Canto a lo divino is a unique musical expression of […]
Decoy with Joe Mcphee / Elaine Mitchener
31 January 2021
For over 4 decades Joe McPhee has been pursuing a beauty in his music that balances fierce attack and lyrical poetry. Over time he has absorbed the black-radical avant-garde, a love of Coltrane, Coleman and Ayler, an engagement in deep listening and a never ending openness, making him one of the most vital saxophonists in jazz and […]
USURPER / Áine O’Dwyer / Bill Wells
20 December 2020
For the festive soiree, Counterflows invites some of its close musical family for a night of festive-themed fun, throwing up and revelling in all the joy, beauty, horror and ridiculousness of the holiday season. Usurper will present ‘The 3 Year Old Hamster’, a new piece written especially for this event. Usurper are the the Edinburgh of […]
Beatrice Dillon / Paul Abbot + Rian Treanor / Sue Tompkins / [Fraser, Ormston]
2 November 2020
The first event in the series welcomes an array of artists working with different types of music. The cadence, stutter and rhythmic swing of our bodies is explored through bass-driven electronics, live drums, djing and the human voice itself. Beatrice Dillon, a London-based artist and musician, exploring the liminal space between bass music, house and […]
Bill Orcutt + Okkyung Lee
29 September 2016
Okkyung Lee (a virtuosic, South Korean-born cellist) and Bill Orcutt (an idiosyncratic, Southern-folk-rooted guitarist) are two boundary-pushing figures in contemporary avant-garde and improvised music. Their collaboration centre on intense, uncompromising improvisational interplay, blending Lee’s aggressive extended techniques with Orcutt’s jagged, angular guitar riffs. This show follows the release of their debut album together, which was […]
Glorious Traces Festival with Ian William Craig, Tapes, Jon Collins and Adam Campbell / Tina Krekels (duo)
12 August 2016
Counterflows is delighted to present a special night as part of the Glad Cafe’s Glorious Traces Festival, taking place at the Pollock Ex-Servicemen Club (just next to Crossmyloof train station). IAN WILLIAM CRAIG Blending choral, ambient and noise influences together into his customised array of analogue tape decks, composer/vocalist Ian William Craig moves you over […]
Księżyc + Ela Orleans
25 November 2015
‘Księżyc’ means ‘Moon’. The first incarnation of Księżyc was active in the 1990’s, the second exists now. In both forms the members include Agata Harz (vocals), Katarzyna Smoluk (vocals, piano), Robert Niziński (wind instruments, keyboards), Lechosław Polak (accordion, keyboards, synthesizers) and Remigiusz Mazur Hanaj (lyrics, tapes). The spirit of Księżyc captures early and late medieval […]
Maurice Louca
10 October 2015
Born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, Louca plays in The Dwarfs of East Agouza with avant-punk icon Alan Bishop and experimental composer Sam Shalabi. He formed the trio Lekhfa with Maryam Saleh and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh. Louca’s ensemble, Elephantine, features jazz musicians from Italy, Sweden, and Germany. اe is also known for several acclaimed solo albums, […]
Noura Mint Seymali
7 April 2015
In partnership with An Tobar in the Isle of Mull, we welcome Noura Mint Seymali and her band to the UK for their first time. All the way from the burning desert of her sub-Saharan home in Mauritania, Noura Mint will enchant us with her exquisite voice and deeply hypnotic music accompanied by her husband’s […]
The Otoasobi Project: A Well of Intuitive Freedom
17 September 2013
Otomo Yoshihide, when performing at Cafe OTO in 2009 was asked what project he would like to ring to the UK, he replied: Otoasobi. And now they are here! Through AC Projects’ eveloping collaborative relationship with Cafe OTO in London we are really excited to bring to Glasgow The Otoasobi Project from Japan. The day […]
The OTOASOI Project UK: Otomo Yoshihide and The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra
16 September 2013
Otomo Yoshihide, when performing at Cafe OTO in 2009 was asked what project he would like to ring to the UK, he replied: Otoasobi. And now they are here! Through AC Projects’ eveloping collaborative relationship with Cafe OTO in London we are really excited to bring to Glasgow The Otoasobi Project from Japan. The day […]
Nazoranai (Keiji Haino, Stephen O’Malley & Oren Ambarchi) / Jer Reid & friends
10 July 2013
AC Projects and Cry Parrot team up to present the first ever UK performance for NAZORANAI – an apocalyptically loud trio consisting of three heavyweights from contemporary experimental music scenes around the world; Keiji Haino (guitar/synth/vox), Oren Ambarchi (drums) and Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley (Bass). A transcendent amalgam of motorik metal and ferociously unfettered space-rock, […]
Supersilent with John Paul Jones
15 November 2012
In one of the most boundary breaking jazz-rock collaborations of recent times former Led Zeppelin bass hero John Paul Jones and cult Norwegian industrial-ambient-noise group Supersilent join forces for a major UK tour, including as stop off at The Arches. Jones has been pursuing his love of the ever-expanding Norwegian prog-improv scene with an initial […]
Ghédalia Tazartès’ presents HÄXAN
11 December 2011
Ghédalia Tazartès’ music has always been a mystery. It switches from musique concrète to existing or invented ethnic music, from poetry to noise, or from loops and collages to sad and extremely beautiful tunes in a second. This is a rare chance to catch him perform an improvised soundtrack to the 1922 Swedish/Danish silent horror […]
