Rammel #161 - Leyden Jars/ Birchall – Kraabel – Harrison/ Jonathan Bohman

 

Leyden Jars/ Birchall – Kraabel – Harrison/ Jonathan Bohman

Saturday 7 November @ Mist Rolling Inn, 8pm
£10 advance/ £12 doors/ NOTAFLOF

 

Leyden Jars

London based duo Natalie Williams and Mark Courtney debuted with a triptych of albums for the unimpeachable Mordant Music through 2016-2017. Followed by a fourth on the singular Outer Reaches (2020) and were part of the Cafe Oto Takuroku digital series. Their latest long player (Illusory Truths) was released via the always-avant  Australian label Altered States Tapes in May 2025. A subsequent reissue was released via Spain's Mascarpone Discos in 2026.

Their live emissions are based on electronics that breathe! Incorporating sonic place, sonic space with all manner of sound-makers; once eloquently described as "Dank!!" (Jackson Burton). They have recently set up the Goods Outward label where their 5th album 'Forgeries' was released in 2023.

 

Birchall/Kraabel/Harrison

Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser, mostly on saxophone and voice. Between 1998-2022 Kraabel conducted and played with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO).and in 2022 Kraabel founded a large improvising group, ONe_Orchestra New, made up of allsorts of trans-masc, trans-fem, non binary, and women improvisers.

Richard Harrison is a key member of the Manchester free improvisation community. Best known for playing in Spaceheads and Cheshires avant-farm punks The Mudhutters, he is one of the few musicians to have played with both Derek Bailey and Nico.

David Birchall is a guitarist and organiser living in Manchester, UK. He has performed improvised music in the UK, Europe, Russia, Palestine, USA & Japan. He organises the Curious Ear series for improvised music in Manchester.

 

Jonathan Bohman

Jonathan started making and recording music in 1974 with his brother, Adam. Occasional gigs in the 1980s led to the establishment of The Bohman Brothers as a live performance duo from the mid-90s to the present day.

In 2000, Jonathan added The Bohman Family group as an adjunct to The Bohman Brothers, featuring a number of like-minded musicians and artists. This ensemble, in turn, spawned Secluded Bronte (with Richard Thomas), Ischio Romantico (with Leonard Aspen & Roger Boulding), and more recently, The Dave Craught Five (with Romuald Wadych).

In addition, the brothers teamed up with their old colleague Richard Crow to form The BBC around 2018. And now one can add Duvel Mortage, the trio with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson to this roster.