Making Rooms

Weekertoft is a new label for improvised music founded by the English guitarist John Russell and Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth.

Hailing from Kent and starting out as a rock musician, John Russell has been a leading player on the international free improvised music scene for many years. He has been running the concert series Mopomoso for an unbroken 25 years as of this year ('MOdernism – POst MOdernism – SO what?') hosted each month at the Vortex Jazz Club. Read more about the ideas behind the Weekertoft label in Sound and Music's blog The Sampler.

The launch concert celebrates the label's first release Making Rooms, a 4 CD box set of recordings from the 7-concerts-7-cities-9-musicians 2013 Mopomoso tour supported by Sound and Music and The Arts Council of England. The concert features the CD musicians Evan Parker, John Russell, John Edwards, Alison Blunt, Benedict Taylor, David Leahy, Kay Grant and Alex Ward and a film screening of Pat Thomas.