Adam Bohman / Crystabel Efemena Riley / Sue Lynch (trio) + Catford to Khartoum

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Adam Bohman , Crystabel Efemena Riley and Sue Lynch have been performing as a trio since 2017, when they first got together as ‘You, Me and Sue’ to perform as part of The Horse Improvised Music Club. Performing here as a trio, to celebrate their latest CD release on Café Oto OTOROKU label, Lynboril Lisinopril ! Catford to Khartoum is a collaboration between musicians from The Sudan and London based experimental improvisers. First recorded in a studio under London’s Westway at the end of 2021, the band combines traditional Sudanese grooves with contemporary experimental urban landscapes. Catford to Khartoum: Osman Babo / percussion Adam Bohman / amplified objects and strings Adam Bohman has been operating on the outer fringes of underground music for decades. Working with home-built instruments, found objects, tape cut-ups, collages, ink drawings and graphic scores. Favouring acoustic sounds over electronics, he explores the minute tendrils of sounds coaxed from any number of non-musical instruments and objects. He is a member of British experimental groups, Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers, Secluded Bronte, and The London Improvisers Orchestra. Adam's music is unique and experimental, incorporating musique concrete, sound poetry and free improvisation. During the late noughties Crystabel Efemena Riley toured Japan and Europe using drums, electronics and make-up in power-noise trio Maria and the Mirrors. This was the start of her interest in patterns on skins — human and drum. An interest in dimensional patterns existing on (and off) different skin surfaces, exploring the idea of 'care and uncare': layered skins, recycled drum skins, smetled sculptures, other metallics and electronics. Crystabel has been a long-term collaborator with Sue Lynch who welcomed her into the Horse Improvised Music Club and later played in the London Improvisers Orchestra. She is currently working on the multi-format duo project @xcrswx with Seymour Wright, together they created the sounds for Edward George’s Black Atlas film at the Warburg Institute. Sue Lynch works as an experimental saxophonist and a visual artist. She curates The Horse Improvised Music Club with Adam Bohman and Adrian Northover. Performs with Psychedelic Sudanese band ‘The Scorpios’. Has performed at 3 Klange Tag Festival, Switzerland with Hildegarde Kleeb, Womad BBC Stage, Tusk Festival and Guess Who Festival (Utrecht) with The Scorpios. Solo performances at Pied Nu Festival, Le Havre, SuperNormal Festival 2025 and collaboratively at Light Sounds Festival 2024.