The Living Room is all about providing variety within the brief of 'classically inspired'. It is with pleasure that we invite Samuel Sharp to embody this variety.
Samuel Sharp is a composer, saxophonist and producer based in London. His recent work involves contemporary story-telling through innovatively crafted soundscapes that blur the lines between classical, jazz, and electronic music. His shows are truly unique, as he attempts to capture fragments of memories and emotions, repainting these scenes live on stage with his saxophone and an assortment of harmoniser and delay pedals. The sonics can build up to epic proportions, with one recent punter commenting that she was “mesmerised into oblivion"
His albums “Patterns Various” and “Consequential” have been well received to date. Recent radio coverage has included airplay on BBC Radio2 (Jamie Cullum), BBC Radio3 (Unclassified and Night Tracks via Elizabeth Alker, Hannah Peel and Sara Mohr-Pietsch), BBC 6 Music (Tom Ravenscroft and Stuart Maconie), XFM (John Kennedy), Jazz FM (Jez Nelson) and Soho Radio (Anna Phoebe) amongst a whole host of other stations around the world. Particular highlights include live sessions and interviews with John Kennedy, plus Samuel being invited to present his own hour-long show as part of Stuart Maconie’s Freakzone Playlist. Louder Than War magazine declared him“ one of the great sax innovators of our time”, Back seat Mafia described “Patterns Various” as “an album which will be looked back on as a chronicle of our times”, and the compositions have taken centre stage on the front page of bandcamp several times now thanks to the “New and Notable” selection from their editorial team
Samuel recently co-founded Counter Chamber, a new classical/electronic night featuring a wide range of contemporary performers, teaming up with composer and multi-instrumentalist Jay Chakravorty as co-curator. Their goal is to take post-classical music into a fresh club setting, reframing what chamber music means for current times with a broadly diverse curation of artists across genre boundaries.
Tickets -bit.ly/TheLivingRoomSamuelSharp
