TRAD
Conamara Sea Week
Various venues, Letterfrack ceecc.org
Between Bog Week and Sea Week, Letterfrack and its hinterland know how to celebrate their environment: melding sky, sea, land and music like no other gathering. This year’s Sea Week includes a brace of fine sessions, with tonight’s trio of Johnny Connolly on melodeon and Liz and Yvonne Kane on fiddle promising something intimate and very special.
SHOWCASE
Wolf Music
Pygmalion Dublin 9.30pm €10/€5 wolfmusicrecords.com
About six years ago, London duo Matt Neale and Stu Clark set up Wolf Music as an outlet for their love of all things house and disco. It proved to be a case of both good idea and good timing, with Wolf Music going on to introduce us to such artists as Waze & Odyssey, the excellent Session Victim, James Welsh, Greymatter, Belfast house heavyweights Bicep and others.
CLUB
Twitch
Queens University Students Union Belfast. 10pm £10 twitchbelfast.com
What’s striking about Harry Aguis’ progression as Midland to date is just how diverse his output has been. The Leeds-based producer’s back pages take in everything from indie band remixes to bass-heavy releases which have won favour from house and garage DJs. In recent times, Midland has made a run of widely praised Boiler Room appearances and has embarked on a Rinse FM residency. He’s on the decks all night at Twitch.
SACRED IMPROV
Tigran Hamasyan – Luys i Luso
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, 8pm, €36/€22, newschool.ie
Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan (right) is performing his Luys i Luso (Light from Light) project only in sacred spaces around the world this year, the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. With the Yerevan State Chamber Choir, the virtuoso pianist is reviving the sacred chants of his homeland, some of them more than 1,500 years old, and placing
his own improvisations amongst them. Christ Church will be the perfect place, acoustically and atmospherically.
DADA JAZZ
Alfred 23 Harth and Kazuhisa Uchihashi
Yamamori Tengu, Dublin, 8pm, €12, facebook.com/ concretesoup Back in 1969, saxophonist and Dadaist Alfred Harth was the second ever artist to record for the new ECM label. The German punk-jazz legend, accompanied by acclaimed Japanese guitarist Kazuhisa Uchihashi, is the headliner in a night of free improv from the outlier Concrete Soup series, with support for the Dublin gig from ¡NO! and Gavin Prior, and a DJ set from DJackulate; and in Sligo, from pianist Izumi Kamura and saxophonist Cathal Roche. Faint hearts should seek their entertainment elsewhere.
