2025 SWI by South Wales Improvisers

This album is a glimpse of the activity of SWI in 2025 and follows the 2024 compilation. We started in October 2021 and the 2 hour sessions happens every 2 weeks. All what you hear is unprepared and improvised, no structure is given except, sometimes length of playing or numbers of people playing. And listen to each other! These are recorded, sometimes better than others. And some are lost! The recordings are from a TSCAM DR-07 placed in the center of the players, there is no checking of levels or position of players, the recorder as the listener records (curates), what it hears. 40+ hours of recording and these are the curated sections from those recordings.

Attendance at the sessions ranges from 2 - 12 people with a wide range of experience/ sound making tools and equipment. All session are free playing and group determined improvisations. This edits perhaps reflect my mood when collating, so if i was to do it again it could reflect a very different sound of the SWI. ....And there's still great stuff in the files!

Anyway I hope you enjoy listening to some if not all. And if you happen to be in Cardiff on a Sunday......

Chris
South Wales Improvisers

Tracklist

1.	January 2025	6:43

2.	Febuary 2025	12:40

3.	March 2025	8:07

4.	April 2025	9:31

5.	May 2025	6:42

6.	June 2025	6:00

7.	July 2025	8:00

8.	August 2025	12:54

9.	September 2025	9:10

10.	October 2025	14:17

11.	November 2025	8:40

12.	December 2025	7:28

Credits

released January 3, 2026

Community is all

Thanks to all the players who have come down over the year, either once or every session, your contribution to improvised ensemble music in Wales is fabulous.

And a very special thanks to Jon Ruddick, sound maker and mover and shaker behind SHIFT Cardiff

Any money this album makes goes back to supporting improvised music in Wales

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