Free Range 5 (2015-2016)

Free Range 6 (2016-2017)

These are recordings from the 7th Free Range season (October 2017 to March 2018). Thank you to everyone who came to the events, it was a great season!
www.free-range.co

Free Range 7 (2017-2018)

Free Range 4 (2014-2015)

Free Range 8 (2018 - 2019)

FR 235 Free Range Orchestra (before Vula Viel)

John James - "Idyll" (2013-11-14)

Lauren Redhead et al. - Top Ten Natural Numbers (2014-01-30)

Sam Bailey and Luke Blake - Piano in the Woods 12 (2014-04-06)

Simon Smith - Piano in the Woods 13 (2014-05-03)

This is Ben Horner's affectionate audio documentary about the Piano in the Woods project. For more of Ben's work visit:
www.theaudiosphere.com
For more about Piano in the Woods visit:
www.pianointhewoods.com

The Story Of Piano In The Woods

Track listing:
Miniatures (Pritchard/Zaldua) 0:00 - 13’45”
Pinter (Pritchard/Zaldua): 13’56” - 20’45”
curse tablets (Lauren Redhead): 20’53” - 33’00"

FR247 - Alwynne Pritchard And Alistair Zaldua

FR 247 - Corrie Dick And Sam Bailey

FR 248 - The Table Of Consciousness

FR-249 - Kristin Fredricksson

FR-250 - Dau & Tony Westcliffe

FR 253 Balladeste & Kelvin Corcoran

As taken from the book and CD "Black Flag".

Link: https://www.byronwallen.co.uk/discography

FR-254 Byron Wallen & Nick Ramm - Debris

Free Range (in collaboration with the here.here concert series at University of the Creative Arts, and the Gulbenkian Arts Centre) presents a conversation, a concert and an experiment.

We invited string players to form a new ensemble to play semi-improvised music by German composer Eva-Maria Houben and early music maverick, Roddy Skeaping. Both composers worked with the players, many of whom were encountering improvisation for the first time. The audience and players were invited to speak about this process before and after the performance. This is the profound and playful sound of highly experienced classical string players taking their first steps into a new world.

Both pieces were world premieres.

Free Range:
https://freerangecanterbury.org/

here.here concert series:
https://www.thebookroom.net/here-here-streamed-concert-series/

Gulbenkian Arts Centre:
https://thegulbenkian.co.uk/

Seascape Harmonies By Eva - Maria Houben

Cedar Gets A Soaking By Roddy Skeaping

Paul Cheneour, Dan Sayers & David Leahy - full set (2015-01-08)

ZONE: Sarah Crewe & Chris McCabe - full set (2015-01-22)

FR 103 Paul Dunmall And Tony Bianco - full set (2015-10-01)

FR 106 Ruth Duckworth (flute) & Martin Tanton (aionophone) - full set (2015-10-22)

FR 120 - Brian Hopper & Ron Geesin - full set (2016-02-11)

FR 121 - Matt Brown Presents: Pieces by Dimitri Scarlato & Sam Messer - full set -(2016-02-25)

FR 122 - Evan Parker, John Edwards, Steve Noble - full set (2016-02-25)

The opening night of our new season featured the Taegŭm player Hyelim Kim and percussionist Jeunghyun Choi. A Taegŭm is a bamboo flute traditionally used in Korean court music, shamanic rituals and folk music. An aperture covered by a reed membrane gives the instrument it's characteristic keening intensity. http://hyelimkim.jimdo.com/

FR 126 - song with Hyelim Kim & Jeunghyun Choi

FR 126 - improvisation with Hyelim Kim, Jeunghyun Choi, Kat Peddie & Sam Bailey

FR 126 - duet with Hyelim Kim & Jeunghyun Choi

Free Range commissioned Kat Peddie to write a poem marking the opening of our 5th season on 6th October 2016. It is a cut up poem based on a section of the Rituale Romanum (1964) that provides details of 'Blessings Of Places Not Designated For Sacred Purposes'. Sam Bailey provides piano accompaniment. www.free-range.co

FR 126 - Blessings Of Places Not Designated For Sacred Purposes by Kat Peddie & Sam Bailey

On 13th October 2016 Smugglers Records and Free Range presented a night of music from Molly's LIps, Papylonian Babooshkees, Ladies of the Lake and Sam Bailey. http://www.smugglersrecords.com/ http://free-range.co/

FR 127 - Smugglers Records Presents Papylonian Babooshkees Playing Elevenses

This is the last piece played by Byron Wallen's Four Corners Quartet at Free Range, Canterbury on 27th October 2016. This piece originally appeared on an album called Mountain Music of Puerto Rico. http://www.byronwallen.co.uk/
http://free-range.co/
http://www.allmusic.com/album/mountain-music-of-puerto-rico-mw0000039948

FR 129 - Byron Wallen's Four Corner's Quartet: Trova Con Sabor (verses with flavour)

This is a recording of Nisha Ramayya reading from her poem States of the Body Produced by Love on 8th December 2016 for a performance organised by the Zone poetry collective in association with Free Range, Canterbury, UK.
http://www.nisharamayya.com/
http://free-range.co/

FR 135 - Nisha Ramayya reading from States of the Body Produced by Love

This is a recording of the harpist Rhodri Davies playing at the Wintersound Festival at the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, UK on 14th January 2017. Rhodri played until most of the of the strings in his harp had broken.
The Wintersound festival was a collaboration between Free Range (www.free-range.co) and Canterbury Christ Church University (www.canterbury.ac.uk)

Wintersound - Rhodri Davies

For two years, improviser and composer Sam Bailey experimented with speaking whilst playing the piano. Here is a selection of these experiments. These are live recordings from the Free Range series of experimental music events in Canterbury, Kent, UK.

sambailey.space/projects/speakingandplaying
freerangecanterbury.org/

Speaking and playing no.3

This is a recording of Andy Birtwistle's illustrated lecture on the history of the tape cassette at Free Range on 22nd March 2018.
www.andybirtwistle.com

FR 165 Main Set: Cassette Night featuring Andy Birtwistle

This is an improvisation by the formidable Australian-French drummer Will Guthrie recorded at Free Range on 8th March 2018.
www.will-guthrie.com
www.free-range.co

FR 163 Main Set: Will Guthrie

This is a recording of the full performance from 22nd February 2018 featuring three duo improvisations featuring:
Mark Holub (drums) & Irene Kepl (violin)
Colin Webster (saxophone) & Graham Dunning (electronics)
Mark Holub & Colin Webster
Followed by a quintet featuring:
Mark Holub, Irene Kepl, Graham Dunning, Colin Webster and Sam Bailey (piano).
www.markholub.space
www.colin-webster.blogspot.com
www.grahamdunning.com

FR 162 Three Duos With Mark Holub, Irene Kepl, Colin Webster & Graham Dunning

Featuring Four of the UK's most extraordinary improvisers, Total Vibration is a double-trumpet super group with members from acclaimed bands such as Loose Tubes, Polar Bear and Dinosaur. Channeling the free spirit of jazz musicians such as Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and Geri Allen, this group are as equally at home playing free music as they are weaving their way through higher structures and grooves. Total Vibration are" Laura Jurd (Trumpet), Chris Batchelor (Trumpet), Tome Herbert (Bass), Corrie dick (Drums).

167 - Total Vibration - 04 Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman

167 - Total Vibration - 03 - Skin (Geri Allen)

167 - Total Vibration - 02 - Latin Genetics (Ornette Coleman)

167 - Total Vibration - 01 - Feet Music (Ornette Coleman)

Sam Bailey and friends, with help from the audience, open up the season.

167 - Opening Set

An extended live performance of Janek Schaefer's collaborative album with Charlemange Palestine Day of The Demons. A review of the gig for Fluid Radio is available here:
http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2012/09/janek-schaefer-live-at-free-range-canterbury/

Janek Schaefer - Day of the Demons (2012-09-27)

Dominic Lash is a polymath, equally at home playing with the world’s great free-improvisers (Evan Parker, Tony Conrad, Joe Morris), notating complex compositions and writing about poetry, film and music. This restless intellect is combined with a deep and quicksilver musical intuition that can be heard in the extraordinary music played by his quartet on this last date of their UK tour. Dominic Lash (double bass, compositions, arrangements), Javier Carmona (drums, percussion), Ricardo Tejero (reed instruments), Alex Ward (electric guitar, clarinet).

“Lash is a bassist and bandleader of distinction, and this album from his Anglo-Spanish quartet is one of his most impressive projects to date.” The Quietus

https://dominiclash.blogspot.com/p/dominic-lash-quartet-2.html

179 - Dominic Lash Quartet

Am Horizont is a concert series run by the composer Sam Messer.

At the Beginning of February 2019 they presented a performance of Octetby Lawrence Crane. 

Crane has written of his work: “I use simple and basic musical objects; common chords and intervals, arpeggios, drones, cadences, fragments of scales and melodies. The materials may seem familiar – perhaps even rather ordinary – but my aim is to find a fresh beauty in these objects by placing them in new structural and formal contexts”.

http://www.samuelmesser.co.uk/am-horizont/

182 - Am Horizont - 02- 'Octet' (Lawrence Crane)

Alistair Bamford, Els van Hoof and the audience performing one of Georges Aperghis' recitations at Free Range on 1st November 2012

Alistair Bamford and Els van Hoof - Recitation 1 [G. Aperghis] (2012-11-01)

Alistair Bamford and Els van Hoof - Recitation 3 [G. Aperghis] (2012-11-01)

Alistair Bamford and Els van Hoof - Recitation 2 [G. Aperghis] (2012-11-01)

The podcast Canterbury Sans Frontiéres, in collaboration with Free Range, is proud to present a concert of extraordinary compositions by the bassoonist and composer Lindsay Cooper. Originally written for the experimental rockband, Henry Cow, these pieces have been transcribed and arranged by the composer and pianist Yumi Hara for an ensemble that features several original members of Henry Cow. Lindsay Cooper was one of the very few female composers in the field of experimental rock. She also founded the Feminist Improvising Group in 1978. Opportunities to hear her work are extremely rare, especially when played in the spirit in which it was written by some of the musicians who originally recorded the music in the 1970's and 1980's: Yumi Hara (arrangement, piano, keyboard, harp, voice), Cris Cutler (drums), Dagmar Krause (voice), Chloe Herrington (bassoon, soprano sax), John Greaves (bass, voice), Tim Hodgkinson (alto sax, clarinet).

186 - Lindsay Cooper Songbook - 01 - Half The Sky

The penultimate session of the 2018-2019 season of Free Range saw a single set from Pat Thomas the the baby grand piano placed in the centre of Garage Coffee in Canterbury.

188 - Pat Thomas - Full set

Australian / French percussionist Will Guthrie playing an improvised set at Free Range in Canterbury on Thursday 10th january 2013. Visit http://will-guthrie.com for more information or go here for a review of the gig: http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2013/01/will-guthrie-live-at-free-range/

Will Guthrie - improvised percussion set (2013-01-10)

Sam Bailey's improvised piano set at Free Range on Thursday 28th February 2013. This was the opening set for a poetry reading given by the distinguished American poets Norman Finkelstein and Michael Heller.

41 Sam Bailey - improvised piano set before Michael Heller & Norman Finkelstein (2013-02-28)

Tom Jackson playing an improvised solo clarinet set at Free Range on Thursday 7th March 2013.

Tom Jackson - clarinet improvisation (2013-03-07)

Free Range is an award-winning arts charity that presents high-quality adventurous music and combined arts events in Canterbury, Kent.
Since we started in 2012 until the time of writing in 2021, we've presented 214 events, worked with 1004 artists, and reached an audience of over 13,000. All events are free-entry.

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