Been a turbo 4 weeks back home remembering how to be a musician again. Playing the @indira__elias tour, accompanying @ellahaber.music , putting on a festival with @lobarecords and our beautiful community (ft special collaborative BLAUhAUS set) and ending with Foshe’s epic 2-3:30am set at @strawberryfields_festival - too much driving, I am sick now who’s surprised.
Comin up:
Tonight! - 8-10:30pm BLAUhAUS at Courthouse Hotel Darlinghurst (below Kinselas)
Thurs 30-Nov - @hcon_ilex@wslyhtchnsn improv trio at @cricketersarmshotel
Sat 9-Dec - @foshemate at @viconthepark supports TBA
Thurs 14-Dec - special surprise @indira__elias production, save the date
Sat 16-Dec - BLAUhAUS maybe with live drums??? At Courthouse Hotel Oxford St
Let us introduce you to Foshe. Three masterful musicians, each with their own projects and directions, who come together to play fully improvised polyrhythmic jazz. Hard to pin down. A longtime favourite.
Improv gigs are something different. Watching these three communicate non-verbally — through their instruments, a cracked smile, a quick glance, the occasional tongue poke when it gets complicated — makes the room feel alive. One offers a riff, a melody, a fresh count. The others try to catch its rhythm, its vibe, and push it further. No fixed track. No expectation to meet. Just feeling and flowing.
Polyrhythm takes it to another level. Our modern ears are trained on 4/4, the count you bop along to without thinking. But 3/4, 5/8, 7/8, for example, all carry a different feel entirely. And when multiple musicians hold different times simultaneously, something strange happens: the rhythms drift apart, move out of phase, and then synchronise again over larger cycles. Watching the boys navigate this in real time is electric.
Everything you’ll hear online is recorded from previous live improv gigs just like ours. Go find them.
A big thanks to Foshe for coming to play for us at our Tiny Bookshop Concert.
And keep an eye out. They’ll be back fo sho. 🤍
@foshemate
ft.
🎹 @zigiblau
🎸 @tomford.music
🥁 @mikewbentley
📷 @stell.vandyke
Dubby number shaking off the improvised live-looping cobwebs before next Friday supporting the 🐐 @johncarrollkirby alongside @setwun at @thechurchpaddolive ⛪️ (this probs sounds cursed without headphones btw)
Last couple weeks have been turbo and fun! Naarm with @ellahaber.music and @indira__elias , strawberry fields, opera house (studio lol) with @jamaicamoana and then Aotearoa tour!
C u at my last gig (inshallah) for the year this Sat. Tix via @indira__elias - wouldn’t count on buying at door, pretty limited cap venue!
How goods the harbour beach icecream boat?? And that bowl that sounds like a tabla!
Excited to launch a new residency this month with @zigiblau and @yungdavo
There will be grooves, it will be improvised, I will have earphones taped to my drums, we shall experiment and explore 🔮🚀
Every Wednesday at the greatest bar in the entire world ✨ @ramblinrascaltavern ✨
9pm - FREE
Poster by @lomaloma_hi 🦄
Been a bloody while! Free Foshe & Bentley gig next Sat 19th July at the @warrenviewhotel
OG Foshe trio and sick Bentley lineup ft @o.veliks & @hilary.geddes
Will be absolutely FLOGGING the last of our vinyl, never to be re-pressed
📸 @clairesmojver
Been really into slap bass on inappropriately large stages lately. Gonna do it again this Sunday on a far more reasonably sized stage at @lazythinking__ for @zsa.zsa.gyulay ’s (hectic) single launch. Music from 7pm. Also finally figured out how to put these 40yo mesh heads to good use with @hcon_ilex ‘s triggers and now it’s jungle time (I sped it up lol). Silent drum practice 👍
Rare blauhaus trio set tomorrow night! with the best company @hcon_ilex & @fosterdorkaliza - gonna get deep, ambient and textural in this epic space and you’re gonna sit on cushions and absorb it. @thechurchpaddolive is at Paddington Uniting Church x
