Way Out Westport: Vol. 2. 
 A programme of Robin Foster and the trio of Raph Clarkson / Matthew Grigg / Tim Hill. 
 Robin Foster 
 Robin Foster is a musician, performer, programmer & engineer based in Bristol with a practice related to performance & sound art, improvisation, physicality & noise music. He uses a sustained performance focus on the practice of rummaging with found objects and how this explores our relationship to the things we surround ourselves with - the visceral in performance. The percussive, often frantic, hurried ritualistic search within Robin’s musical rummage creates a space for audience meditation on their own material practices. 
 Robin’s collaborations have ranged from session work with experimental pop songwriter Ed Dowie to being an early member of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble & a longstanding duo with fellow rummager Henry Collins and he has performed extensively including at such venues as London’s Cafe OTO, Ochiai-Soup in Tokyo & Supernormal Festival. 
 Clarkson / Hill / Grigg 
 The growl, spit & rasp of Raph Clarkson’s trombone & the foghorn of Tim Hill’s baritone saxophone move together & apart in an interplay of playful & explorative conversation while Matthew Grigg’s micro-scurrying treatment of guitar strings & wiry crackling feedback shifts further out in bursts of distorted musique-concrête glacial landscapes. 
 Raph Clarkson is a trombonist, improviser, composer & educator. His guiding principle is the power in music to form connections through community and collaboration. His musical education is informed by his parents' classical music practice and the inspirational guidance of Keith Tippett. Raph has an inviting, open spirit and his playing and approach honour these loved ones, mentors and musical inspirations.  
 Celebrated by Verity Sharp of BBC Radio 3's Late Junction and applauded by Adrian Pallant of London Jazz News for his ability to create 'challenging but engaging music' of deep feeling with openness and experimentation, Raph leads numerous groups & collaborations; these include Ledley, a duet with Let Spin’s Chris Williams, The Dissolute Society & his celebrated South Africa/UK project Equal Spirits with their 2024 debut album release celebrated as ’something fresh and rather inspiring’ (UK Jazz News). Raph has performed with numerous greats of the contemporary British jazz scene from Charlotte Keeffe & Tony Orrell to Laura Jurd, Pete Judge & Riaan Vosloo. 
 Matthew Grigg is a Bristol-based musician and concert organiser particularly active in free improvisation and noise music. His performance practice draws on intuitive technique, close listening, signal noise & feedback. He is an explorative guitar & amplifier adventurer who has collaborated extensively with artists such as EP/64, Tina Hitchens, Chris Cundy, Dominic Lash & Kay Grant. Matthew has a number of brilliant duo & trio releases on the Unknown Tongue label, a who’s who of the South West improvised music scene. 
 “Somehow treads an impossible line between fragile beauty and gnarled anger” – Phil England, The Wire 
 Tim Hill lives in Somerset, plays the saxophone and makes noise drawing on groove-based free improvisation, electronica, traditional music and ritual sound. His research & performance centres around the relationship to playing music outside; this means street band theatre, collective experience, ritual & ceremonial and the social history contained in these forms. 
 In the mid 1970s he was switched on to free jazz pioneers Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra & Albert Ayler and he has played with some of the figureheads of the British free music scene such as Derek Bailey, Steve Noble, John Edwards, Paul Burrell & Mike Cooper. 
 “Muscular playing… somewhere between Johnny Hodges and Dudu Pukwana” – Phillip Clarke, The Wire 
 In Malmesbury and not to be missed.