mopomoso Live January 19 2025 at the Vortex Jazz Club London

Описание: Mopomoso is the UK’s longest running concert series dedicated to freely improvised music!

We’re delighted to be kicking off 2025 with the archive of 2025 live shows at the Vortex with the following wonderful musicians:

George Haslam (tárogató) & Marcio Mattos (cello)
John Bisset (lap guitar) & Olga Ksendzovska (piano and objects)
Neil Metcalfe (flute), Terry Day (drums) & David Leahy (double bass)

Keyboardist and vocalist, Olga Ksendzovska has been playing music since she was five years old. Starting, as most children do, with classical music, her musical life took her through many genres and bands. Genre has never been a focus for Olga’s musical practice, she tends to regard music as a practice of purposefully organized sound rather than sets of rules and traditions.

John Bisset is a Guitarist, vocalist, improviser and composer, organiser of structures for improvising within (Relay), and film maker.


Neil Metcalfe (flute), has been active on the London improvising scene since the 70’s.

Double bassist, David Leahy has been an active member of the free improvisation scene ever since his arrival from New Zealand in 1998. He is also an improvising dancer and works at Trinity Laban as a lecturer to both music and dance students. He is particularly interested in spatialized performance practices and has explored and performed alternative approaches to performance with a wide array of improvisers and with larger groups such as; LIO, Oxford Improvisers, the Free Range Orchestra (Canterbury), the Wuppertal improvisers, and Orquesta Foco (Madrid).

Terry Day is a Multi-instrumentalist, Improvisation Pioneer, Song Writer, Tune-Smith, Lyricist, Poet, Painter, Conductor even.

Marcio Mattos & George Haslam
Marcio Mattos is a much travelled and experienced improviser who can readily adapt and excel in every musical environment both in Double- Bass and Cello. His “success”, in this respect, is primarily due to the high level of commitment he makes in every situation faced. His presence can be heard in very many released CD’s and especially in his latest solo recordings: “SOL[os]” (EMANEM 5035)

George Haslam (born 22 February 1939, Preston, UK) is an English avant-garde jazz saxophonist. Haslam’s horns of choice are the baritone saxophone and the tárogató. Voted in the top twenty All Time World Greatest Baritone Saxists in Japanese Encyclopaedia of Jazz.


Compere: Tim Fletcher

Camera: Paul Jolly

Audio recording and mastering: Pascal Marzan

Series production and editing: Jakub Rokita