The Glad Cafe are delighted to welcome this mega double headline show with TAUPE + RE-GHOSTER EXTENDED

TAUPE Taking risks only works if you’re willing to fail, and Taupe share an understanding that there’s no wrong way to play.

A decade of friendship has conjured a spooky telekinesis that anchors the band, even when their improvisations teeter on the edge of total collapse. The three-piece are an explosive live band, veering from taut metronomic precision into intentionally turbulent, unchartered territory. A DIY ethos feeds their wonky compositions, colliding sour scatter-skronk with sludgy, doom-inspired riffs.

Anarchic, joyful debut album Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow (2017) was best described by All About Jazz as “a chain of chemical reactions”, and their 2019 EP Get The Keys is a wild joyride through the night their car was almost stolen - with their instruments, Mike and Adam still inside it. Not Blue Light (released April 7th 2020) is their boldest record yet. Picking up the story from where the EP left off, it rattles from shit-your-pants fear to adrenaline, relief and total bafflement. It’s no surprise that their exhilarating sense of discovery has won them support from the likes of BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone and BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and Freeness, as well as support slots with acts such as Deerhoof, Richard Dawson & Circle and Melt Banana.

Fizzing with ideas, Taupe are a non-jazz band that prizes surprise over any specific sound. — May 5th 2023 saw the release on Diatribe Records of the debut record from Adjunct Ensemble, Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy. A new project from Irish performer and composer Jamie Thompson, Taupe are featured amoung a stellar cast of musicians on the record including turntablist Mariam Rezai, poet Felicia Olusanya (aka Felispeaks), pianist Elliot Galvin and bassist John Pope. The album is an ambitious, long-form electroacoustic assemblage, which excites fleeting comparisons – the radical jazz of the late 1960s, the hip-hop abstractions of cLOUDDEAD, the starkly meaningful sound nebulae of The Caretaker, Scott Walker when in extremis, as well as cinematic evocations, such as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, for example. Ultimately, however, Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy is a remarkable artistic achievement like nothing you have heard before.

“A radical expression of empathy, as stunning as its themes are crushing.” - The Wire

“A disorienting act of resistance” - The Guardian Contemporary Album of the Month, May 2023

RE-GHOSTER EXTENDED Founded in 2019, Re-Ghoster brings together Jerôme Noetinger (Tape Recorder Revox, previously Valerio Tricoli until the end of 2022), Nicolas Field (drums, electronics) and Thomas Florin (piano) in a unique electroacoustic trio.

After their first tour of Switzerland in 2019, the trio is now hard at work producing a debut album, 'Or not all', to be released in 2020 to international acclaim.

Barely out of a residency at the GMEA (Albi, F) in March 2020 (which ended literally the day before the first confinement), the trio's development was slowed by the pandemic situation, like many artistic and musical projects. Far from letting the situation get them down, the group did their best to move forward, and released their debut album 'Or Not All' at the end of 2020. In 2021, Re-Ghoster presented a live-streamed creation with Hans Koch, as part of a pandemic remote project (AMR, Geneva).

In September 2021, as the situation was opening up, a post-pandemic tour was organized tour in September in a new quintet format, which became Re-Ghoster Extended, inviting two major artists, Nate Wooley and Fritz Welch. All these activities, maintained despite the pandemic, have paid off, with a feature in 'The Wire' magazine at the end of 2021.

A new Re-Ghoster Extended album, entitled "The Zebra Paradox", was released in CD format in April 2023, accompanied by a triumphant concert at the Archipel Festival in Geneva(broadcast on RTS https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2023/audio/festival-archipel-2023-re-ghoster- extended-26118868.html). To coincide with this performance, Re-Ghoster Extended presented a piece commissioned by the festival and based on the CtrlKey project. Dreaming with the lights on" explores the possibilities offered by a network of improvisers, using for the first time the capacities of the electronic instrument developed by Konnekt called “CtrlKey” (https:// konnekt.co/en/projects/ctrlkey).

Re-Ghoster Extended are now preparing their next European tour to accompany the vinyl release of 'The Zebra Paradox'.

Access Guide and Tickets for Personal Assistants

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