Underground neoclassical evening with The London Ambient Orchestra, a collective of classical and avant-garde musicians, at Vortex Jazz Club.
The London Ambient Orchestra play Vortex Jazz Club on Tuesday 3 November, as part of an underground neoclassical evening with a local lineup. The night is billed as an underground neoclassical evening, and the orchestra is the main feature.
What makes the group worth knowing is the mix of people behind it. They describe themselves as a community of artists and individuals from strikingly different musical backgrounds, ranging from conservatoire-trained classical musicians to self-taught avant-garde street performers. It's a wide gap to bridge — the formal training of the conservatoire on one side and the raw, instinctive approach of the street on the other — and they say it's a shared love of sound and an interest in stillness and expression that holds them together.
That tension sits right at the heart of what they do. Their work lives at the crossroads of neoclassical, ambient, experimental and drone music, so you'll hear the structured lines of the classical tradition rubbing up against the open, drifting textures of ambient and drone. It's the kind of music that asks you to sit with it rather than just listen past it, and the evening is built around that same sense of space.
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It's a local night, so the lineup stays within the city. The orchestra takes the main slot at Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, London N16 8AZ. Doors open at 19:45 and the music starts at 20:30, with general admission at £17.50.
