Matthew Bourne

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  • Bourne Davis Kane – full concert available on Vimeo

    Recently added to Vimeo is a BDK concert from SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast), and was part of a colloquium at Queens University Belfast entitled, Translating Improvisation: Beyond Disciplines, Beyond Borders. It’s a slight departure from our normal performances – being under the auspices of an academic setting but, at last, a fuller picture of BDK as it currently stands – enjoy!

    BourneDavisKane from Translating Improvisation on Vimeo.

     

    Other recordings available for purchase are available HERE

  • Two Projects for Glenn Armstrong: Sine qua non & Salomé (with Kit Downes)

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    Sine qua non – Serge Gainsbourg re-imagined

    Out now on Coup Perdu records is the gorgeously-recorded, beautifully-packaged Sine qua non – Serge Gainsbourg re-imagined. Recorded at Abbey Road studios in 2013, SQN is a testament to producer/curator Glenn Armstrong’s aesthetic vision and ear for detail and quality. I was fortunate enough to have played in two duos on the record – one with violinist Ros Stephen and another with Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon. Included with this lavish double album, is the bonus record Sine qua non plus: exquisite solo guitar versions of many of SG’s compositions by Leonardo Lara. Visit the Coup Perdu website for more information – and also for a look at Laurence Ismay’s documentary, Looking for Melody, about the making of the album.

    Salomé

    Oscar Wilde’s famous play, Salomé has been the object of Glenn’s fascination since seeing what was to become a life-changing production at The Roundhouse in the late 1970s. Fast-forwarding to the present day, Glenn now has made plans to make his own film version of this iconic play – recruiting myself and the inimitable [Kit Downes] to jointly compose the music for this endeavour. Kit and I have been looking to work together more often but, finding the space to do so has always proved tricky but, thanks to Glenn, we may just have the focus we need. So, watch this space…

     

  • Bourne Davis Kane: appearances & releases

    Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst

    Bourne Davis Kane have already premiered Piers Hellawell‘s Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst, as part of the 2014 New Music Biennial at the 2014 Belfast festival in March. The next performance of this collaborative commission will be at London Southbank Centre on July 6th (with a concert of BDK’s own music at Friday Tonic (Front Room, QEH) on July 4th), and again at Glasgow Royal Concert Halls on August 2nd. All these events are FREE!, thanks to the auspices of the New Music Biennial. Please see the APPEARANCES page for more information.

    The Third Tear

    There’s a new BDK album ready and waiting. As usual, it’s been recorded and ‘on the shelf’ for a little while now but, now the tracks have been chosen, our third album, The Third Tear, is ready for release on some record label or other in the not-so-inforseeable future.

    Bourne/Davis/Kane/Dunmall

    At the end of last year Bourne Davis Kane recorded a second album with saxophone colossus Paul Dunmall. Their first album, Moment to Moment] was acclaimed for its rare power and intensity. This second recording as a quartet (due for release on Babel Label sometime later this year) is more contemplative in comparison – with some fine playing from Dunmall (as usual!).

    As is the usual form with Duns, we played a number of pieces and, when we’d reached approximately 60 minutes in duration of recorded material, that’s the session done and in the can – NO backtracking at all. A lovely way to make music…

  • Bourne Davis Kane to work with Piers Hellawell for New Music Biennial 2014

    The PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial consists of twenty composers and commissioning organisations that have been selected to produce new musical work in 2014.

    Working closely with Belfast-based composer (and longtime friend of the band) Piers Hellawell, Bourne Davis Kane will workshop the material together, with each of us leaving behind our respective working methods, whereby Piers will then: “…refine these extended results into a musical fabric for performance, one that is neither separably ‘mine’ nor ‘theirs’ but inseparably ‘ours’.”

    Amongst the dates being planned, these so far include the World premiere of the work at the Belfast Festival (28-29 March), with subsequent performances at Southbank Centre (4-6 July), and in Glasgow (2-3 August) as part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games celebrations. You can keep up to date with the progress of these concerts via the Appearances page.

    Also, you can now follow Bourne Davis Kane on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube as well as listen to the entire BDK catalogue on our Bandcamp page.

  • Bourne and Chris Sharkey to support Marc Ribot solo show in March!

    Bourne – along with guitar lothario, Christopher Sharkey will be playing before the wonderful Marc Ribot on March 14th at the Howard Assembly Room in Leeds. It’s been ten years since, under the guise of Distortion Trio, that Bourne, Sharkey and Dave Black played a set with Mr. Ribot at The Wardrobe in 2003 (to which Marc remarked after playing together, “Nothin’ like a bit of the old ‘noise ‘n’ roll’”. Class. Come down and hear him/us play music…

  • Billy Moon chosen for the ‘Northern Line’ Touring Scheme

    Billy Moon has been chosen as one of twelve ‘ambassadors’ for the Northern Line touring scheme – a Jazz North initiative. There will be a showcase concert at The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on March 25th. This appearance will see Billy Moon in an intimate duo setting with Seaming To (expanded to include cello and violin for subsequent appearances); alongside Andy Champion’s ACV, Martin Archer’s Engine Room Favourites and the Jamil Sheriff Trio. Keep checking back for more news about Billy Moon and the upcoming Northern Line dates!

  • Impermanence Trio Album Launch

    Happy New Year!

    Just a brief announcement to say that Impermanence Trio (Bourne, Riaan Vosloo (bass) & Tim Giles (drums)) will be launching their debut album at The Vortex on Tuesady, 8th January.

    The vinyl only release (download code included) is shared with Tricko (Tareco), featuring Kit Downes (piano), Lucy Railton (cello) and Alex Killpatrick (sound artist).

    Impermanence Trio & Tricko (Tareco) is available from Impossible Ark Records.

  • Montauk Variations heads the list of Stewart Lee’s records of 2012 in The Sunday Times!

    It is a great honour for me to have had Montauk Variations selected as one of Stewart Lee‘s records of the year in yesterday’s (09/12/12) Sunday Times Culture supplement.

     

    Lee has already reviewed Montauk in The Times earlier this year:

    “Matthew Bourne is found in typically excitable mode on the newly released Everybody Else But Me, alongside the saxophonist Tony Bevan. 
    But, with Bourne alone at the piano, Montauk Variations’ meditative improvisations instead use cautiously melodic figures to trace penumbral shadows of memory and regret. Bourne’s obstreperous other self surfaces on Within and Abrade, stroking the keyboard and the instrument’s innards simultaneously, but Smile, written by Charlie Chaplin for Modern Times, closes a deceptively devastating collection, stripped of its cinematic sentiment into a haunting skeletal solo.” (01/02/12)

    So, having been a fan of Lee’s work for many years (since Fist of Fun in the mid-’90’s), I’m extraordinarily happy that I have been able to reciprocate in some small way via my own work as a musician.

    You can order it directly from the website shop while stocks last – it’ll make the perfect Christmas gift: endless hours of listening, fun for all the family…

     

    Montauk Variations by Matthew Bourne

    Montauk Variations – Infinitude

  • Concerts in YORKSHIRE

    November 15th – Leaf Label Night at 26th Leeds International Film Festival

    So, it’s not often I get the chance to play near to where I live but the last month or so has been the exception rather than the rule! So, TONIGHT I’ll be playing live to projection of the Luis Bunuel/Salvador Dali classic, Un Chien Andalou as part of the Leaf Label Night at the 2012 Leeds International Film Festival and will take place in the inimitable environs of the Hyde Park Picture House.

    Leaf Label Night – Un Chien Andalou

     

    December 14th – Woolly Warmers with Stockpot Stopcock

    On December 14th, I’ll be reunited with logtime friend and master musical polymath, Richard Ormrod, under the guise of Stockpot Stopcock for an impromptu performances under the banner of Woolly Warmers at the Emmaus second-hand furniture shop between rows F & G, at Leeds City Markets (12:30-13:30) and at Leeds City Bus Station (17:30-18:30). Pop down in your lunchbreak or on your way home to hear Christmas classics as you’ve never heard them before… Keep checking in at Leeds Inspired – further details on the Woolly Warmers programme are soon to be released…

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    December 14th – Organ improvisation for Obscene Baby Auction event, Bradford

    Immediately after Stockpot Stopcock, I’ll be hot-footing it over to Bradford to have a blast on the organ at the Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, as part of a bill which includes Trembling Bells, That Fucking Tank and Wooderson. Join the Facebook event page and visit Obscene Baby Auction for more information about this and other upcoming events:

    This may well be the last news post until after Christmas so, seasons greetings to you all!!!

     

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  • BOURNE DAVIS KANE – 10th Anniversary Tour!

    Bourne Davis Kane, is celebrating ten years of companionship and music making with an intimate 10th Anniversary Tour in November.

    It’s been a while since the last outing but it is a band that continues to evolve and change along with the shape of our lives – it is not a band that is driven by money or the desire for fame but simply to play music together, to share this music with others whenever the opportunity presents itself but ultimately it’s about communing with each other and sharing our lives with each other as friends.

    Tickets and more information are available via the links below and you can also join the Facebook event page, too.

    Sun 11 Nov – London Jazz Festival, Pizza Express, LONDON

    Wed 21 Nov – Jazzy Colors Festival, Centre Culturel Irlandais, PARIS

    Fri 23 Nov – Triskel Christchurch, CORK

    Sat 24 Nov – Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall, DUBLIN

    Sun 25 Nov – The MAC, Upstairs, BELFAST

     

     

    Don’t forget, you can purchase all Bourne Davis Kane albums – Lost Something,  The Money Notes and Moment to Moment (with Paul Dunmall) from the Acquire Page!