TDE: Smiodair + Bize

A double bill with one set featuring Bize, the French duo of Robin Fincker (saxophone and clarinet) and Sylvaine Hélary (flutes and piccolo) and the other set featuring Smiodair, the French/Irish/British trio of Robin Fincker, Simon Jermyn (guitar) and Dave Smith (drums). Both groups weave spontaneously and seamlessly between their compositions and improvisation thus creating a series of varied and unpredictable episodes. Bize say imagine two rails which, in a gust of wind, break the charm of parallelism, and meet at certain points, only to separate a few meters further. Smiodair is an Irish language word that means small fragments and this word captures the way the trio builds episodes through the transitions between composition and improvisation.