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Venue: Low Four Studios

Maria Chiara Argirò

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Maria Chiara Argirò vocals & piano & synths / Christos Stylianides trumpet & synth / Riccardo Chiaberta bass & drums & synth 

Maria Chiara Argirò has been a central figure in the UK jazz, classical and electronic worlds since she moved to London from Rome over a decade ago. A skilled pianist since childhood, she’s collaborated with everyone from These New Puritans to Jono McCleery to Jamie Leeming alongside output with Moonfish. Her previous solo album, the stunning electronic jazz-fusion record Forest City, received widespread critical acclaim and was covered by the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. Her music has featured in the Netflix series, Elite, and she can count the likes of Four Tet and Gilles Peterson as fans, with the latter describing her music as “absolutely crazy good”. 

Closer, her new album, is a testament to Maria’s journey of self-exploration and a manifestation of her profound connection with music. Rooted in an indescribable feeling that compelled her to create, the album transcends boundaries and traverses the spectrum of electronic music with unparalleled depth and clarity. 

Date: wednesday 21 may

Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Price: £15

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Alice Zawadzki: Za Górami

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Alice Zawadzki voice, violin / Fred Thomas piano, percussion, vielle / Misha Mullov Abbado double bass 

The second of three special performances in the intimate surroundings of Low Four Studios, to be filmed for the YouTube series Live from Low Four Studios. Please note, this event is a seated performance that will be filmed and recorded in full, with cameras and sound recording equipment present and visible throughout the performance. 

“A genuine original” – John Fordham, The Guardian 

Singer, violinist, and composer Alice Zawadzki was born in 1985 to an English linguist mother and Polish historian father, and is one of six children. Having studied and built her musical foundation in Manchester, she now resides in London, where she continues her inquisitive and collaborative creative journey.  

“Loosely connected to the world of jazz, but realistically inhabiting her own realm” (Clash Magazine), her creative output is an intricate tapestry of influences and exploration, finding home in the peripheries of the contemporary classical, jazz, art-pop, and folk worlds – “all propelled with a voice of velvet suppleness and gutsy emotional intensity” (The Arts Desk). 

Za Górami is Alice’s debut album for ECM, and re-unites her with long-term collaborators in “a ‘supergroup’ trio of mesmerising intensity” (London Jazz News). This project shows their rare alchemy, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free-flowing interplay and fluid structures, chamber music, improvisation and jazz, combining the full span of the trio’s reach in a mesmerizing whole. 

 

Photography Credit: Bob Barkany

Date: tuesday 20 may

Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Price: £15

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Elliott Galvin

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Elliot Galvin piano & synths / Ruth Goller vocals & bass / Mandhira de Saram violin / Sebastian Rochford drums 

An artist with little need for introductions, Elliot Galvin is a long-time trailblazer in the UK jazz firmament with four solo albums that have seen him top album of the year lists at the likes of Downbeat and Jazzwise, as well as being a member of the Mercury nominated Dinosaur, and collaborating with Shabaka, Emma-Jean Thackray, Norma Winstone, Marius Neset and Mark Lockheart. 

Scheduled for release in February 2025 via independent London tastemaker label Gearbox Records (Binker & Moses, Abdullah Ibrahim, Cahill//Costello), “The Ruin” marks a new start for Galvin. This is his most personal album to date, written on his childhood piano and inspired by the bleak yet beautiful landscapes of his hometown, the music free-flows between serpentine piano and modular synth lines weaving and colliding around ephemeral vocalisations, deceivingly groove-heavy percussion, and intricate, soulful flute improvisations, featuring a who’s who of estimable guest musicians and friends from the UK scene including Shabaka on flutes, renowned bassist and vocalist Ruth Goller, Polar Bear drummer and Patti Smith / Damon Albarn collaborator, Sebastian Rochford, and longtime collaborators The Ligeti String Quartet. 

“A virtuosic, risk-embracing one-off” – John Fordham, The Guardian 

Date: monday 19 may

Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Price: £15

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