Name: Sakina Abdou + Peter Knight & JP Carter
Start: 2024-06-28T17:00:00-07:00
Location: 1601 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9

This event is PWYC and at the Revue Stage.
Sakina Abdou
Based in Lille, France, saxophonist and flutist Sakina Abdou explores free improvisation and broadly experimental contemporary music with the likes of Eve Risser’s Red Desert Orchestra, Raymond Boni, Satoko Fujii, and the daring experimental collective, Muzzix. But it’s as a solo artist that her multifaceted identity really shines through: hers is a powerful, precise sound, sometimes caustic, sometimes full of grace and quietude. On Goodbye Ground, her debut album for the cutting edge New York label Relative Pitch Records, Abdou’s intense and inventive solo explorations and extended techniques are full of suspense and surprise.
“She can be as fiery as she is fierce, but what has impressed me is Abdou’s ability to bring moments of swing-derived blowing to the equation, evoking Lee Konitz as much as Peter Brötzmann. She’s definitely one to watch.” — The Quietus
With the support of the Consulate General of France in Vancouver.
Peter Knight & JP Carter
It’s true: Peter Knight and JP Carter both play the trumpet. But that fact is only part of the larger, weirder, more deliciously bewildering truth about two of contemporary creative music’s most envelope-pushing, distinctive sound-shapers.
Melbourne-based Peter Knight uses extended techniques, electroacoustic processing, rhythmic overlapping, slow harmonic evolution, and subtle timbral evolution to shift our perceptions of linear time. In their “Best of 2022”, Headphone Commute called his latest solo album, SHADOW PHASE, “a carefully curated exercise in reflective restraint, dreamy atmospherics, and ebbing dynamics.”
One of Vancouver’s foremost ambassadors of invention, JP Carter has been a fog, an electrical storm, a swarm of locusts, a wistful memory and a harrowing premonition, a firefly in a jar and a barge-load of fireworks going off all at once in his wide-ranging improv collaborations and genre-agnostic work with Destroyer, Haram, Fond of Tigers, SICK BOSS, and more.