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The latest experiments from the Underworld Alchemy Laboratory.
Silver alto and electric guitar becomes a green lion that devours the sun. Electric bass and cello to agitate and ignite. Drums and percussion to stir, rumble, and clank like the furnace in our subterranean laboratory. The secret of alchemy is mastery of the illusion. We’ll take you somewhere in the dark – and leave you to find the way out.
Transmuting Anger
Transmuting Anger is a series of melodic fragments cued by alchemy symbols and tied together with improvised music, focused on the exploration of women's anger around #metoo, sexism and sexual harassment. The work premiered on January 12th, 2018 as part of the NYC Winter Jazzfest and was performed with different instrumentation at the Earshot Jazz Festival on October 30th, 2018.
Sarah Manning (alto saxophone, composer) Briggan Krauss (guitar) Ha-Yang Kim (cello, Earshot) Simon Jermyn (electric bass, Winter Jazzfest) Newman Taylor Baker (drums, Winter Jazzfest) Dylan van der Schyff (drums/percussion, Earshot)
Discography
Live at the Hundred Years Gallery, London.
Sarah Manning: alto saxophone (acoustic) | Alex Ward: guitar (electric)
On May 11th, 2017, Brooklyn-based saxophonist Sarah Manning and London-based guitarist Alex Ward met for the first time at the Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton, East London. They descended underground into the long and narrow basement, where even the slightest sounds reverberated off the brick walls and concrete floor. With silver-plated brass shaped on a mandrel nearly a century ago, and wood amplified and refined by magnets, copper wire, and electric circuitry, they extracted urgent new music in the presence of visual art and a live audience.
Recorded live at the Hundred Years Gallery by Alex Ward on May 11th, 2017. Mixed and mastered by Alex Ward at Stowaway Studios, London. Released September 4th, 2020 on Copeload Records.
"Venturing into wide open spaces that occasionally recall the folk-tilted chamber jazz of guitarist Bill Frisell...A serrated cover of Neil Young's "On the Beach" and Gillian Welch's lilting "I Dream a Highway" further underscore her broad, borderless vision."
- Chris Barton, LA Times Top 10 jazz pick 2014
“A limited amount of signed and personalized copies of Dandelion Clock, Live at Yoshi’s: Two Rooms Same Door, and House on Eddy Street are available directly from the artist.”
