Shijin - featuring Ivo Neame
Last Show: Wednesday 5 th October 2022
PizzaExpress Jazz Club (Soho)
Shijin is a pan-European collaboration with a unique twist - all pieces are woven together collectively by all band members during band ‘retreats’. Consequently each piece becomes like a patchwork quilt containing compositional watermarks of all four of the musicians. Listeners can expect dynamic, risk-taking polyrhythmic music sewn together by improvisation and group interplay. Stylistically, the influences are as diverse as ‘Bikutsi’ music from Cameroon, folkloric music from Bahia in North-eastern Brazil and metal bands such as Meshuggah. The band features some of the most sought-after musicians from the French, Belgian and UK jazz scenes; as individuals they have appeared with jazz legends such as Joe Zawinul, Peter Erskine and Hermeto Pascoal.