WorldService Project have been tearing a path through the UK scene and touring with their ambitious initiative of match&fuse joint adventures in music with the brightest, dirtiest young European and Scandinavian bands. 

Featuring 13 bands from eight countries from 15th to 16th June, this is the first match&fuse festival in a five year plan – Oslo in 2012 and Rome in 2012…

Friday 15 – in the Vortex from 8.15pm

8.15pm

Alfie Ryner

From France – quintet of stirring music, elegant and poised jazz to punk to groove to bolero.
mashup big band
WorldService Project/RedivideR/Alfie Ryner

9.30pm

Neo

Fom Italy – progressive avant-punk jazz trio combining explosive energy, punk angularity with highly improvised music.

10.30pm

Led Bib

Led by drummer Mark Holub, from the UK Led Bib are the sonic equivalent of a volcanic eruption backed by a fire storm.

11.30pm

Owls Are Not What They Seem

From Poland – aggressive drum 'n' bass mixed with complex African rhythms.

Saturday 16 – in Gillett Square from 1.00pm

1.00pm

3 dancers / 9 drummers

1.45pm

Hackney kids & match@fusers

2.30pm

Les Rauchen Verboten

From Spain – momentous speech that describes violence, landscapes and stories of a raw, joyful and at times sarcastic perspective on life.

3.45pm

Pixel

Rockpopjazz from Norway – led by bassist Ellen Andrea Wang.

5.00pm

RedivideR

From Ireland – two-horns-no-chords quartet led by drummer Matt Jacobson. Downtown grooves with catchy melodies and collective improvs and an influential dose of Carnatic music of Southern India.

6.45pm

match@fuse big band

Eighteen musicians assembled from all the bands.

8.30pm

WorldService Project

From the UK – keyboardist Dave Morecroft leads “serious scronk jazz WSP crew through irreverent blend of face-slapping funk, odd metered grooves and a clutch of catchy, zizagging melodies all to dazzling effect” (Time Out).

10.30pm

TrioVD

From the UK – redefining preconceptions of contemporary British jazz to voracious crowds of old-proggers and muso-teens – virtuosity with mind-blowing coherence.

Saturday 16 – In the Vortex from 5.45pm

5.45pm

Tribraco

Pyscho jazz, stepping a fine balance between structured composition and free improvisation, syncopated and pressing rhythms.

7.30pm

SynKoke

Ahead of the curve Nordic jazz with a nod to British prog rock.

9.30pm

Tin Men and the Telephone

From Holland – seductive, funny, challenging, wicked. Great musical depth and strong rhythms – jazz in a new guise.

11.30pm

Tubax

From Italy – electro-dirty-progressive- funk on a psycho-surreal mission to rid the cosmos of evil, armed solely with synth, bass and drums.

For more details including a map for the venue, go to Full Listings.