Taupe + Warp/weft + Jeppe Zeeberg

Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with Endless Window and Jazz North East presents…

TAUPE
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Warp/weft
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JEPPE ZEEBERG AND THE ABSOLUTE PINNACLE OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT

The Cumberland Arms
Saturday 28th September 2024
Doors: 7.00pm (Music Starts 7.30pm)
Full Price: £10.00 
Age Restrictions: Contact venue for age restrictions.

MAKE SURE YOU GET DOWN NICE AND EARLY YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!

7.30pm - 8.15pm
Jeppe Zeeberg and the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Achievement
Henrik Olsson (Guitar) / Casper Nyvang Rask (Bass) / Søren Høi (Drums) / Jeppe Zeeberg (Piano and Organ) 

8.35pm - 9.20pm
Warp/weft
Angharad Davies (Violin) / Sarah Farmer (Violin) / Richard Scott (Viola) / Ute Kanngiesser (Cello)

9.40pm - 10.30pm 
Taupe
Mike Parr Burman (Guitar and Objects) / Jamie Stockbridge (Alto Saxophone) / Alex Palmer (Drums)
 

Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music

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The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street, Ouseburn, Off Byker Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1LD
0191 265 6151 
www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk

Age Restrictions: Please contact the venue for age restrictions. 

Accessibility: The Cumberland Arms has a ramp at the rear of the venue space for wheelchair users to access the building, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building. 

The front entrance to the venue space is preceded by a number of stairs. 

Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Shields Road Morrisons which is located less than 1500 ft from the venue (approximately 5 minutes walk).

Byker Metro is located a half mile away from the venue (approximately 15 minutes walk)

There is parking available on a grassy space next to the building.


Artist Biographies 

JEPPE ZEEBERG AND THE ABSOLUTE PINNACLE OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT

Henrik Olsson (Guitar)
Casper Nyvang Rask (Bass)
Søren Høi (Drums) 
Jeppe Zeeberg (Piano and Organ) 

Jeppe Zeeberg is a Danish pianist, composer and band leader. His style is a personal, uncompromising blend of genres based in jazz and free improvisation. His music has been called A beautiful, convincing proposal for how modern jazz or contemporary music may sound by American magazine All About Jazz. 

In 2022, Zeeberg’s seventh album Conventional was released to great acclaim in his homeland. The album is comprised of music performed by his main band Jeppe Zeeberg and the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Achievement. It won the prize for Experimental Album of the Year at Danish Music Awards Jazz 2022. 

Jeppe Zeeberg has a master’s degree from Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen (2013) and he is active in the groups Jeppe Zeeberg and the Absolute Pinnacle of Human Achievement, Horse Orchestra, Dødens Garderobe and Kresten Osgood Quintet. He has worked with John Tchicai and is responsible for several events and smaller festivals, especially in Copenhagen. As a solo pianist he has performed in, amongst other places, Denmark, Japan and the US. 

“If Zeeberg isn't a genius then he certainly ranks pretty close to one” - All About Jazz 

www.jeppezeeberg.com


Warp/weft

Angharad Davies (Violin)
Sarah Farmer (Violin)
Richard Scott (Viola) 
Ute Kanngiesser (Cello)

The project Warp/weft, first conceived by Birmingham-based artist and musician Sarah Farmer in 2019, forms a subversive reconstitution of one of the most thoroughly established ensemble formats in classical music - the string quartet - exploding it apart into kaleidoscopic free improvisation. The distinct palette of this group allows them to move seamlessly between a highly differentiated atomistic space and a dense, monolithic slab of blended sound. 

It’s a great pleasure to welcome this improvising string quartet to Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music at such an embryonic stage of the project. 

www.angharaddavies.com
www.sarahmfarmer.com
www.richard-scott.info
www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/ute-kanngiesser/


TAUPE

Mike Parr Burman (Guitar / Objects) 
Jamie Stockbridge (Alto Saxophone) 
Alex Palmer (Drums)

Taking risks only works if you’re willing to fail, and Taupe share an understanding that there’s no wrong way to play.

A decade of friendship has conjured a spooky telekinesis that anchors the band, even when their improvisations teeter on the edge of total collapse. The three-piece are an explosive live band, veering from taut metronomic precision into intentionally turbulent, unchartered territory. A DIY ethos feeds their wonky compositions, colliding sour scatter-skronk with sludgy, doom-inspired riffs.

Anarchic, joyful debut album Fill Up Your Lungs and Bellow (2017) was best described by All About Jazz as “a chain of chemical reactions”, and their 2019 EP Get The Keys is a wild joyride through the night their car was almost stolen - with their instruments, Mike and Adam still inside it. 

Not Blue Light (released April 7th 2020) is their boldest record yet. Picking up the story from where the EP left off, it rattles from shit-your-pants fear to adrenaline, relief and total bafflement. 

It’s no surprise that their exhilarating sense of discovery has won them support from the likes of BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone and BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and Freeness, as well as support slots with acts such as Deerhoof, Richard Dawson & Circle and Melt Banana.

Fizzing with ideas, Taupe are a non-jazz band that prizes surprise over any specific sound.

Taupe featured on Adjunct Ensemble’s Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy, The Guardian’s Contemporary Album of the Month May 2023.

“A radical expression of empathy, as stunning as its themes are crushing” - The Wire

“A disorienting act of resistance” - The Guardian Contemporary Album of the Month

www.taupetaupetaupe.com