Listen again – Radio broadcasts
Listen again to broadcasts with Elaine interviewed by Tom McKinney on her new work SWEET TOOTH for HEAR AND NOW and also interviewed about her new Duet with Neil Charles by Sara
Author: pierre
19 February 2018
[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Café Oto Stay on it by Julius Eastman Part of Apartment House 2 day residency[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][edgtf_button type="solid" size="" text="More info on Cafe oto website" target="_blank" icon_pack="" font_weight="" link="https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/apartment-house-perform-julius-eastman/"][/vc_column][/vc_row]
London Jazz News – 14 January 2018
Alexander Hawkins – Elaine Mitchener Quartet – Uproot album launch at Kings Place
Dan Bergsagel
“Flipping between moments of clean organisation, swallowed sounds and run together fingers; UpRoot is composed as an epic struggle; a constant tension between clutter and clarity, wrought with emotion. Yet another unique feather in the cap of the diverse careers of Mitchener and Hawkins.”
Jazzwise Magazine – 16 January 2018
Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet captivate at Kings Place
Kevin Le Gendre
“Rhythmic turbulence, focussed harmonic distortion and dynamic interplay all bear down on Uproot but Hawkins and Mitchener also understand that the so-called avant-garde is nothing if not melodic and that beauty can occur when serenity dovetails ferocity.”
The Times – 12 December 2017
New Intimacy III at Ambika P3
Anna Picard
“The vocalist Elaine Mitchener, the poet Dante Micheaux, the saxophonist Jason Yarde, the trumpeter and flautist Byron Wallen, the pianist Robert Mitchell, the drummer Mark Sanders and the bassist Neil Charles delivered their set of Vocal Classics of the Black Avant-Garde with brilliance, discipline and daring; a body of work as substantial, poetic and exciting as Hans Werner Henze’s Voices.”
The Times – 14 November 2017
Concert Review – LSO St Luke’s
Rebecca Franks
“Bravest of all were the vocalist Elaine Mitchener and the double bassist Neil Charles (the Charles Mitchener duet), who launched into two exhilarating, mind-bogglingly freewheeling improvisations.”
12 January 2018
[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kings Place - London, 19:30 Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet 'UpRoot' Album Launch Alexander Hawkins/Elaine Mitchener Quartet represents the first major collaboration of two of the most distinctive voices of their generation, and stakes
20-22 December 2017
[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Villa Arson, Nice - France Lecture presentation and workshop[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][edgtf_button type="solid" size="" text="More info on Villa Arson website" target="_blank" icon_pack="" font_weight="" link="https://villa-arson.xyz/sonia-boyce/en/content-2/"][/vc_column][/vc_row]
Vocal Classics of the Black Avant-Garde at LCMF
Elaine Mitchener turns to the black avant-garde and to the overflow of experiment that occurred within improvised music