Caroline Kraabel + Khabat Abas // Simian Carbuncle

About

Caroline Kraabel + Khabat Abas

Caroline Kraabel is a saxophonist, artist, conductor, and composer who has been a key part of London's improv scene for at least 25 years. She founded a large improvising group ONe_Orchestra New, made up of all sorts of women, non-binary, and transgender improvisers.

She regularly plays live in duos and trios with John Edwards, Zhuyang Liu, Bex Burch, Charlotte Hug, Maggie Nicols and Pat Thomas among many others. Over the years she has also recorded with the likes of Robert Wyatt , Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Annie Lewandowski, Susan Alcorn, Mark Sanders, Veryan Weston , Mariá Portugal, Neil Metcalfe, Charlotte Keeffe, Alex Ward, Cath Roberts, Dee Byrne, Damsel Elysium and Chris Corsano.

Kraabel's soundfilm, London 26 and 28 March 2020: imitation: inversion won the 2021 Ivor Novello Award for Best Sound Art Composer.

Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan-Iraq. Her work explores time, space, and memory through music, everyday sounds, and noises. She delves deeply into how we experience sound, particularly in various geopolitical contexts. Abas uses her instrument beyond traditional normsimprovising, composing, creating videos and sound installations, crafting cellos from diverse materials, and incorporating her body into performances. Through this approach, her work merges politics with personal expression, challenging conventional values and control.

Khabat has performed with various ensembles, including the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, Sulaymaniyah string orchestra, Gothenburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, and the Non-Ensemble for experimental music in Sweden, London Improvisation Orchestra and ONe_Orchestra New, Noise women.

Simian Carbuncle
Simian Carbuncle are a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques. Matt Clark and regular collaborator Ade Southby (Dragons of Disgust, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) are two likeminded and exploratory improvisors regularly performing and partaking of the heady improvised music scenes of Brighton and London.

+ Wildcard Quartet
+ DJ Fiery Biscuits