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Sunday 22 January 2023
7.30pm
The Rolling Calf
Elaine Mitchener vocals, percussion
Neil Charles voice, misc. percussion, saxophone, looping pedals, fx
Jason Yarde double bass, misc. percussion, fx
Special Guest: Pat Thomas piano, electronics

The Rolling Calf is a black power trio led by vocalist Elaine Mitchener, with saxophonist Jason Yarde and
bassist Neil Charles. The trio’s performances combine texts by revolutionary African-disaporic thinkers with collective electroacoustic improvisation to strike a new bridgehead for the black British avant garde.

First half:
The Rolling Calf’s vocalist and founder Elaine Mitchener is joined by special guest, leading improvising pianist Pat Thomas, in a programme that will explore, deconstruct and dissect some well known jazz standards.

The Rolling Calf: Elaine Mitchener + Pat Thomas  Duo - Wigmore Hall 22.1.23

The Rolling Calf
Elaine Mitchener vocals, percussion
Neil Charles voice, misc. percussion, saxophone, looping pedals, fx
Jason Yarde double bass, misc. percussion, fx
Special Guest Pat Thomas piano, electronics

The Rolling Calf is a black power trio led by vocalist Elaine Mitchener, with core members saxophonist Jason Yarde and bassist Neil Charles. The trio’s performances combine texts by revolutionary African-disaporic thinkers with collective electroacoustic improvisation to strike a new bridgehead for the black British avant garde.

Second half
The Rolling Calf trio performs a programme titled Myths And Dreams in which they invoke African- diasporic texts to access an otherworldly surrealist realm of cosmic ritualistic ‘shredding’. The programme will draw on texts from poems by: Aimé Césaire, Kamau Braithwaite, Una Marson, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Jay Bernard and 
M NourbeSe Philip.

'Let me dislodge them finally like a night rainy with howler monkey cries from my chest as tender as fly agaric' (Aimé Césaire)

Movement 1 for Piano and Orchestra

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