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The Necks at Turner Sims
Courtesy of Jo Roberts | Posted on December 6, 2017
Where
Turner Sims
Highfield Campus, University Of Southampton
Southampton
Map
+44 (0)2380595151
When
Fri, March 16, 2018
20:00
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Musicians
Chris Abrahams
pianoLloyd Swanton
bass, acousticThe Necks
band / ensemble / orchestraTony Buck
percussionAbout
Forming in Sydney Australia in 1986, over the last 30 years The Necks have built an international reputation as masters of their own musical language of long-form improvisation. Each night they step onto the stage with no pre-conceived ideas of what they will play – they and the audience go on a sonic journey that is created in the moment and in that room.
Over their years together, they have honed an assured process of building around repeated motifs through subtle shifts and layering, to produce an extraordinarily dense and hypnotic effect which builds in a mesmerising, epic fashion… a trio conjuring an orchestral expanse....