David O’Connor Writes:

In 2011, Eddie Prévost, Jennifer Allum and myself, organised the first As Alike As Trees improvised music festival at the Rag Factory in East London. This event sought to promote and present the diversity of musicians who have attended the weekly improvised music workshop Prévost first ran in 1999, alongside featuring musicians who have connections, historically or creatively, with some of the workshop’s alumni.

This October the festival finds a new home in Café Oto and celebrates 14 years of an improvised music workshop. Although most of the musicians are UK based and have some history and tenure with the workshop, we are pleased to have Pascal Battus and the ensemble Hubbub, both from France, joining us. Prévost himself will feature on both evenings; Saturday with AMM and on the Sunday, the first performance from Atmospheric Disturbance, a jazz-inflected improvising ensemble he instigated earlier in the year.

More information HERE

DAY 1 – October 12th 2013

Project Space
3pm
£3
Open workshop convened by Eddie Prévost.

8pm
£8 adv/£10 on the door
Pascal Battus – electronics, Sebastian Lexer – piano+ and Tom Wheatley – double bass
Marjolaine Charbin – piano and Iris Ederer – voice
Jennifer Allum – violin and Ute Kanngiesser – cello with AMM (John Tilbury – piano and Eddie Prévost – percussion)

DAY 2 – October 13th 2013

Project Space3pm
£5
Workshop concert led by Seymour Wright – alto saxophone, with: Daniel Kordik – electroncs, James O’Sullivan – electric guitar, Visa Kuoppala – electronics, John Garcia – guitar, Paul Abbott – percussion/electroincs, Ricardo Tejero – tenor saxophone and Philip Clark – piano.

8pm
£8 adv/£10 on the door
Atmospheric Disturbance – to include some of the following musicians:
Nat Catchpole, Rachel Musson, Susan Lynch, Ricardo Tejero and David O’Connor – saxophones. Jamie Coleman and Hutch Demouilpied – trumpets, Ed Lucas – trombone, Ross Lambert – guitar, Philip Somervell – piano, Guillaume Viltard and Tom Wheatley – double bass and Eddie Prévost – drums.

Ross Lambert (SOLO SET) – guitar

Hubbub:
Fréderic Blondy – piano. Bertrand Denzler – tenor saxophone. Jean-Luc Guionnet – alto saxophone, Jean-Sébastien Mariage – guitar and Edward Perraud – percussion.