SUN-MI HONG ALISTAIR PAYNE DUO IN:人
Invisible Ropes
Sun-Mi Hong & Alistair Payne have a long track record playing together in a wide array of projects. Together, they form the driving force for the Sun-Mi Hong Quintet and Alistair Payne’s: This Thread Walks. Thanks to this, they are extremely sensitive to each others ideals in life, and in music.
Quarantine time sprouted some new roots for the duo; the drive to keep experimenting and expressing
the moment; showing that art is not optional. The debut album “IN:人” being the fruits of their labour.
Trumpet & Drums is not the most common line-up, however it’s easy to forget you are listening to either of these instruments. Expect breath and footsteps, a woman wailing and a door squeak. Long textural passages that resemble the sandy scrapes of a carpenter’s work bench. The experience is dream like.
LINE-UP:
Alistair Payne - Trumpet
Sun-Mi Hong - Drums
TERRITORIES
Europe
TOURDATES AND AVAILS
09.05.24 LU-Dudelange - Like a Jazz Machine, Q
19.05.24 BE-Gent - Hamsession, Q
29.06.24 BE-Brussels - Korean Cultural Center, Q
12.07.24 NL-Rotterdam - North Sea Jazz Festival, Q
Release Date BIDA Orchestra: September 2024, Bimhuis Records
04.09.24 DE-Cologne - Jazzweek, BIDA
11.10.24 DE-Wiesbaden - Achter, Duo
31.10.24 DE-Berlin - Jazzfestival, BIDA
Release Date Quintet: March 2025, Edition Records
QUINTET TOUR SLOT UK, BENELUX: 20th - 30th March 2025
20.03.25 UK-London, tbc
21.03.25 UK-Cardiff - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
QUINTET TOUR SLOT OPEN CALL: 1. - 6. & 24. - 30. APRIL 2025
QUINTET TOUR SLOT GAS: 12. - 31. MAY 2025
13.05.25 DE-Kassel - Theaterstübchen
14.05.25 DE-München - Unterfahrt'
16.05.25 DE-Dortmund - Domicil
Quotes:
"Trumpet and drums: substantial tools when betaking oneself into danger zones, greet the dragons and sounding the world. These duets, created with Occam’s razor seem to be both engraved and volatile, evident and ungraspable, daring and down to earth… And above all: they excel in playful clarity. Scotsman Payne and Korean woman Hong are part of a young and vibrant international scene shining in Amsterdam." Henning Bolte
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