Interzone

Musique Rayonnante & Interzone Editions present: Pond Leap

A concert featuring John Edwards (London, UK), Mark Sanders (London, UK), Yves Charuest (Montréal, QC) as a trio

May 15th at La Sotterenea (4848 bd. Saint-Laurent)

Doors at 8:00PM
~ 20$ online (link in bio)
~ 30$ at the door

Artwork by Eva Miette Giardmiette

Avec le soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
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JOHN EDWARDS (Café OTO)
John Edwards grew up in London and started experimenting with the bass guitar before he switched in his twenties to play double bass. He is deeply rooted in the creative free jazz and improvisation genre. Since the 80ties he is as soloist and in many groups and ensembles in Europe active and became one of the most renowned bass players. He played/plays regular for example with Peter Brötzmann, Joe Mc Phee, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Roscoe Michtell, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Mark Sanders, Caroline Kraabel, John Butcher, Pat Thomas, Irène Schweizer, Hans Koch, Florian Stoffner, Gabriele Mitelli, John Dikeman.

MARK SANDERS (Café OTO)
Mark has worked with many greats of the British, European and American free jazz improvised music scene including Roscoe Mitchell, Roswell Rudd, Evan Parker, John Butcher, Henry Grimes, Elaine Mitchener, Wadada Leo Smith, Myra Melford, Charles Gayle, Sirone and William Parker. He has also played with Jah Wobble, Harold Budd, Bill Laswell, Christian Marclay, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ilan Volkov and The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
As an educator he has taught improvisation at many universities around the country as a lecturer and guest tutor. Mark was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists 2024.

YVES CHARUEST (Musique Rayonnante)
Canadian saxophonist Yves Charuest has been active since the 1980s on the Canadian jazz and improvised music scene, played alongside many of the world’s leading improvisers, including Peter Kowald (as part of the Peter Kowald Trio, 1985-1990), Louis Moholo, William Parker, Agustí Fernández, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Noble, Benedict Taylor and Audrey Chen.

Interzone: Season Fundraiser

A concert featuring Emna Mâaref, fdg., Ema Pope, Yves Charuest, Miette + Physis – on January 23rd at Kawalees .mtl

~ 5175A Avenue du Parc, H2V 4G3 (ex-Resonance Café)
~ Doors at 7:30PM
~ 10$ / 15$ suggested (ticket link in bio)

The funds raised through this concerts will go toward the projects, releases, and events we have planned for 2026 — including a 12-inch record by the great Emna Mâaref (her first solo oud album) and two upcoming concerts this spring. Come support Interzone’s continuation… 🌀

Artwork by Eva Miette .miette

MEESH SARA FRADKIN + STUART W. JACKSON

Meesh Sara Fradkin is a writer and artist working with sound, text and media in New York City and Montreal.

Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia, now living in Montréal, Canada. He has presented solo percussion concerts at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and Ausgang Plaza in Montréal, and performed as an uilleann pipe soloist with the Soho Rep Theatre and the Wordless Music Orchestra. He specializes in reconstructing poorly documented and unpublished works from the 20th century. His most recent project on an unpublished vibraphone solo by Pierre Boulez received support from the Fonds de recherche du Quèbec and the Paul Sacher Stiftung. As of September 2025, he is starting a post-doctoral fellowship at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Jonathan Goldman and Guillaume Boutard.

Live set Saturday, September 20th at Église Saint-Denis (454A avenue Laurier E)

Link in bio ~

BÉNÉDICTE

Bénédicte is the musical project of Montreal-based producer and sound artist Maxime Gordon. In her music she carefully crafts and combines soaring synths, distorted field-recordings and glittering vocal samples to explore moments of introspection and feeling. She has performed at venues and festivals across North America and Europe such as Mutek (Montreal), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), Glory Affairs (Prague) and OIIOIOOI (Stadt Wehlen). In 2021 she released the EP When It Binds on Blueberry Records. When It Binds is a collection of songs that serves as Bénédicte’s personal exploration of what happens after an emotional connection is established with someone.

Live set Saturday, September 20th at Église Saint-Denis (454A avenue Laurier E)

Link in bio ~