AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. ISSUE 26 | MAY 2017 | WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO GOOD ON PAPER ISSUE #26 INSIDE: JAZZ STROUD: SELECT SITE FESTIVAL MAMMAL HANDS FESTIVAL OPEN STUDIOS & TRAIL + Gallery Pangolin | Giffords Circus | Maria Stadnicka Cover image: Mammal Hands by Adam Hinks Adam image: Mammal Hands by Cover #26 | MAY 2017 EDITOR’S NOTE WELCOME TO THE TWENTY SIXTH ISSUE OF GOOD ON PAPER – YOUR FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC CONCERTS, ART EXHIBITIONS, THEATRE PRODUCTIONS, COMEDY SHOWS, FILM SCREENINGS AND LITERATURE EVENTS IN STROUD... Well this issue was a struggle…but amidst bouts of man-flu (a jazz terrible ailment which we heroically battled through) and Easter holidays another edition sits in thine hands… The month of May is a busy one including the eagerly awaited stroud return of Jazz Stroud, Select Festival and Trail, Site Festival Open Studios and Giffords Circus new show Any Port In A Storm enticing residents from all over the UK to descend upon the five valleys to experience the incredible art, music and theatre may 26-28 2017 created on our doorstep. All of the above are of course covered in this issue, but we suggest picking up the free brochures and programmes for the get the blessing . dakhla Open Studios and Trails which are available now. Be sure to visit our website for extra content including film listings and downloadable archived issues… mammal hands . vels trio . bloom **New Walls - Exhibition Party May 18th from 6.30pm Everyone welcome** spindle ensemble . evil usses Alex and Adam run logan run . tezeta . beje andy nowak quartet . mermaid chunky sea slugs . feelgood experiment remi harris . rafa dornelles trio footshooter . the schmoozenbergs EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: [email protected] dark victory . tristan watson trio Alex Hobbis CO-WORKING STUDIO FOR DIGITAL CREATIVES DESIGNER Artwork and Design the patsy gamble quartet. ghostmind Adam Hinks [email protected] ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER kevin figes quartet . da rico goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ PRINTED BY: the tadlib collective quintet Tewkesbury Printing Company gyjc . stroud jazz Sessions . cio john street ska orchestra SPONSORED BY: hub tone collective . jp allstars funk in session . weston & dellow CO-WORKING STUDIO dave ayre trio . stroud calling stroudbrewery.co.uk stroudcluster.com jazz friday . junk room records Chartered Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk STROUDCLUSTER.COM elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk Want to take this seat? Talk to us jazzstroud.org 4 MUSIC - MAMMAL HANDS #26 | MAY 2017 #26 | MAY 2017 MUSIC - MAMMAL HANDS 5 Jazz Stroud: MammalMammal HandsHands Jazz Stroud, organized by the SVA returns for its second year from 26th - 28th May with an amazing array of performances scheduled to take place in various venues throughout town. Highlights include Get The Blessing, Dakhla, Spindle Ensemble, Tezeta, Run Logan Run, Vels Trio, the Evil Usses, The Patsy Gamble Quartet and the mesmerising trio Mammal Hands, featuring Nick Smart on Piano, Jesse Barrett on Drums and Jordan Smart on Saxophone. By Sean Roe Floa their second album released Nick: We all met after we had We will consider using strings again ensemble playing and space of music and if we tried to make a reminds me of classic ECM Jesse: Yes the live shows can be website (mammalhands.com). via Gondwana Records (also been doing different busking sets in the future for sure but in terms for solos? record in a certain style, we would recordings. What music are pretty different, we always try to We’re touring in Europe over the home to GoGo Penguin) has been in Norwich and decided to play of bass, we’re pretty committed to Jordan: It’s an important part of our end up limiting ourselves and you listening to now and draw stay true to the tunes and represent next two weeks actually, mainly inspiration from? receiving glowing reviews in the together as a trio. I think it was an fi lling out the low end between the compositional process, we always making less interesting music them as they are on the record, playing in Germany and France, Nick: We’re all big fans of Penguin press since its release late last appealing set up because we felt three of us… try to fi t improvised sections into as a result. just with more improvisation and and we’re looking forward to Cafe Orchestra and Michael Nyman year. The group will perform their a sense of freedom playing with the context and mood of a piece extended sections. The nature of getting out there on the road. and between us there’s a lot of distinctive fusion of jazz, folk and only two other people, you have I’ve read that Jesse has studied we are writing. Often we avoid Jordan: Yeah, it’s a thing we run live shows is always going to be ECM recordings we love, the crystal electronica at the Goods Shed in interesting rhythmic and harmonic tabla with Sirishkumar Manji thinking about them as solos, into a lot, but for us we just don’t very different, it’s a much more clear production you get on those Stroud on Saturday 27th and I was possibilities opened up by playing - with your music being quite which frees us up to think about try to defi ne the music. Me and visceral experience for us and the records has defi nitely been an Visit mammalhands.bandcamp. lucky enough to catch up with in a smaller group. On the other rhythmically complex do you have building up more of a collective Nick are DJ’s so we are always audience so you have to enter into any favourite time signatures to infl uence when we’re mixing and com to listen to Floa and them to talk about their music and side of that you have to work improvisatory feel. There are points in record shops and categories are that and make the most of it. We play in? shaping the records. Right now, their previous release Animalia, upcoming concert…. harder to create a heavier sound when one of us takes more of a solo a very useful way of organising have always felt like a live band Jesse: We don’t really have ones Nick is listening to Nik Bartsch’s and jazzstroud.org for the full with only three people but the but it has to serve the song fi rst. music but there’s always stuff that fi rst and foremost, but we try to that we like more than others, some Mobile stuff, super tight, crazy programme and further details challenge is part of the fun for us. never fi ts in. For example, I’ve seen make the records as compelling as How did you decide on the name time signatures suit certain moods polyrhythmic grooves. Jordan’s on this year’s Jazz Stroud Mammal Hands? Jazz is probably a narrow way the new GoGo Penguin record possible, but in a different way from more or allow for a different type been listening to Radiohead’s weekender. Jesse: It was a name that Nick of defi ning the music you play - in both electronica and jazz our live work. Is bass an instrument you intend of improvisation style or melodic new album a lot and Jesse’s been came up with and we just liked it, to add to your palette in future? but how do you think your music sections in shops. I guess genres structure, so we just use whatever can be categorized? What section checking out Elvin Jones’ record Sean Roe is based in Stroud and people seem to like the name too I notice you have a guest bassist are useful when people are Following your performance feels right. The time signature isn’t would I look for you in a record Puttin’ it Together. runs the invisible record shop so we have stuck with it. It doesn’t and also strings featuring on your checking out bands for the fi rst in Stroud - do you have any more latest album? something we usually think about shop? JunKroom Records. He is also mean anything really. time or trying to fi nd new things UK or EU gigs coming up in the too much, it just happens. Nick: We don’t tend to focus too an artist and musician and member Nick: We added bowed double The recordings display a great near future? much on how music is categorised, but after that it becomes limiting. of synth post-punk duo Junk Props bass and viola on two tracks that feeling of control, precision and Jordan: Yeah, we have a lot How did you get to start playing we fi nd it a limiting and narrow attention to detail - are your live we felt could add interesting How do you write your music of shows over the summer and together and what is the attraction and strike a balance between way of viewing music more to do I hear elements of Michael performances any different? of working in a trio format with harmonic voicings that we couldn’t towards the end of the year the composed and improvised with how it’s marketed. For us, we Nyman and perhaps Penguin Do you get to stretch out a bit your line up of sax, keyboard and play just between the three of us. that we’re very excited about, elements - between collective love and learn from so many types Cafe Orchestra in your music, and and do any guest musicians appear drums ? something about the production with you? you can see a full list at our 6 MUSIC - LISTINGS #26 | MAY 2017 #26 | MAY 2017 MUSIC - LISTINGS 7 Americana, Folk, Indie Acoustic THE LITTLE GEORGE On this tour he is bringing along some lost children.