Mexican
Confluences

London debut

Piña para la Niña

Eli Piña (saxophone) · Adriana Camacho (double bass, voice, looper) · visuals by Pierre Bouvier Patron

For their London debut, the Mexico City duo present their new album. Since 2021, Piña para la Niña have brought together two generations of active improvisers from Mexico City's free jazz and free improvisation scene, in a musical dialogue that explores identity, intimacy and the complexities of being human. Their music moves between dazzling whites and the deepest blacks: tenderness, tension, humour, vulnerability and uncertainty.

The duo has performed at Feria Internacional del Libro de Minería, Café Jazzorca and Sesiones Bárbaras, and collaborated with Jeff Platz, Germán Bringas and Remi Álvarez.

Steve Beresford

Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over fifty years, freely improvising on piano, objects, electronics and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink and John Zorn. Long-standing groups have included Alterations, The Melody Four and London Improvisers Orchestra. He has worked with Christian Marclay, The Slits, Ivor Cutler, The Flying Lizards, Thurston Moore and many others, and has around 500 releases as performer, composer, conductor and producer. He received a Paul Hamlyn Award for composers in 2012. In 2021 Bloomsbury published Andy Hamilton's Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford, and in 2022 Siglio published Call and Response, pairing photographs by Christian Marclay with notated improvisations by Beresford.