<strong>MNS</strong> <strong>GIGguide</strong> - a MUSIC NEWS Scotland supplement page 8: edinburgh + west + mid + east lothian Edinburgh, EH8 9JG. 8pm. Award-winning keyboardist Peter Johnstone leads an international group of jazz virtuosi playing music that is rhythmically dynamic and full of colour and expression. A former Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year, Johnstone was awarded a prestigious Yamaha Scholarship and went on to win the much-coveted Peter Whittingham Jazz Award with the band Square One before establishing himself as the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s resident pianist. As an organist his work with the trio Prime and with saxophonist Paul Towndrow’s trio has earned glowing reviews and his composing talents have been admired internationally. www.facebook.com/queenshall 22 OCTOBER PHILIP SETH CAMPBELL :: At Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. The Scottish singer-songwriter has unveiled “Magical West”, the first single to be taken from his forthcoming solo album ‘City Lights’ (out 1 September <strong>20</strong>23 via Assai Records). The artist has also announced an extensive UK and Ireland tour for Autumn <strong>20</strong>23, as well as three in-store shows in his native Scotland to mark the album’s release. An amalgamation of Campbell’s life and career up until this point, the new record unfolds like a series of cinematic snapshots captured in timeless technicolour. From new single and album opener “Magic West” to plucky ballads like “Break The Curse” and “Sober Boy”, and from the bluesy soulful title-track “City Lights” to riled-up and rocky “Gut City Blues”, the LP sees the artist traverse time and genre with a deft sense of musicality that glints and glimmers like an unearthed trove of deep-buried treasure. www.facebook.com/philipsethcampbell 23 OCTOBER Soundhouse presents ... CORRIE DICK :: At Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. 7.30pm for 8pm. £15. “Corrie is the perfect drummer/percussionist… colouring each piece with precision, complex rhythms/ techniques and visible enjoyment” – London Jazz News. At the rhythmic epicentre of a new era of innovative British jazz is Corrie Dick, a musician and composer specialising in euphoric, sonicallyinventive drumming. He is lauded for his dynamism, his melodic slant and for his playfully subversive take on style and genre. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg New Town Concerts present ... CAROLYN SAMPSON & JOSEPH MIDDLETON :: At The Queen's Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG. Carolyn Sampson is one of today’s leading sopranos. Her wide-ranging and eclectic programme celebrates the launch of her 100th recording. Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, she has enjoyed notable success in the UK as well as throughout Europe and the US and performs with the most illustrious orchestras and opera companies. Joseph Middleton is her wonderfully sensitive accompanist and a leading light in contemporary lieder programming. www.facebook.com/queenshall 24 OCTOBER Soundhouse presents ... KAZUTOKI UMEZO KIKI BAND :: At Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. 7.30pm for 8pm. £15. Formed in Japan in 1999 KAZUTOKI UMEZU “KIKI BAND” has always been a difficult group to categorise . It may be the newest type of Jazz-Rock. Its sound may be like progressive rock. The band like unusual beats, so basically it must be jazz. However, if you listen the rhythm, you’ll feel rock music, and if you follow the melody you feel like you are listening to roots music. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg 26 OCTOBER Ali Whitwell's Thursday Afternoons in Captains :: At Captain's Bar, South College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. Acoustic Americana and Other Stuff every Thursday afternoon from 2:30pm in the Captain's Bar. www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh 432 presents..... HIDDEN ORCHESTRA :: At Dissection Room, Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL. 7-10pm. Hidden Orchestra is an imagined orchestra compiled in multi-instrumentalist/ composer/producer Joe Acheson’s studio using many separate recordings of guest musicians from a wide variety of backgrounds, combined with field recordings, bass and intricate layers of drums. Alongside the solo studio albums, the live band has been an integral part of the project from the start. www.summerhall.co.uk 27 OCTOBER NEHH and Maranta present… MICROSTERIA :: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL. For their 4th installment of Microsteria at the Summerhall Dissection Room, producers Maranta combine electronic music with visual art, costume and performances. Curated in a way where all collaborations happen live, in the moment, in unexpected and harmonious ways. Are you ready to immerse yourself into the underworlds of Microsteria? www.summerhall.co.uk 28 OCTOBER Braw Gigs & NEHH presents..... EX-EASTER ISLAND HEAD :: At Old Lab, Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL. 8-10pm. Ex-Easter Island Head are a UK-based musical collective composing and performing music for solid body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. Primarily performing as a quartet, the group incorporates multiple electric guitars augmented through mechanical preparations and extended techniques to create works that explore group interplay, repetition and melodic invention through purposefully limited means. www.summerhall.co.uk 30 OCTOBER Soundhouse presents ... MIKE VASS :: At Traverse Theatre Bar, 10 Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. 7.30pm for 8pm. £15. “One of Scotland’s most thoughtful and exciting musicians” – The National. Mike Vass is one of the most creative forces on the Scottish music scene. As a musician, composer, producer and arranger Vass has amassed a body of work that encompasses collaborations with many of the leading voices among today’s Scots and Gaelic tradition bearers, multi-media performances, production work on critically acclaimed recordings, scoring for prestigious ensembles and composing for and appearing in theatre works. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg 2 NOVEMBER 432 presents..... The Bug Club :: At Dissection Room, Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL. 7-10pm. The Bug Club’s name does a good job of introducing the band and their music: a tight-knit, collaborative effort focussed on telling tales of the everyday that we often take for granted, shot through with humour and riffs-aplenty. www.summerhall.co.uk DF Concerts presents..... ELLA JANE :: At Old Lab, Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL. 7-10pm. For as long as she can remember, Ella Jane has been writing in the margins. Growing up, annotation was a way of understanding and processing the culture that surrounded her, a means of collecting words and stories that would become foundational to the songs she would write. www.fallenangelsclub.com fb @ www.facebook.com/The-Fallen-Angels-Club-149553931728736 twitter @ www.twitter.com/KevoMorris Email your gig dates to robert.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com
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