Unhomed/Unravelled

A jazz concert at Hundred Years Gallery in London, pairing modern English poetry and South-Asian song with improvised music on the themes of memory, migration and home.

Unhomed/Unravelled brings together modern English poetry, South-Asian song and improvised music around memory, migration and home. Shephali Frost is a poet who writes in both Hindi and English, holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, and sings Sufi and Urdu songs, weaving verse and song into a single performance.

The other performers are Mark Hewins on electric guitar, a musician active since 1970 whose first album, Bar Torque, was released in 2001; Hewins has toured with the Lou Reed and Bob Geldof band and worked with the Canterbury musicians Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper. Adrian Northover plays soprano saxophone on the London and international improvised and jazz scene, with festival appearances in Montreal, Victoriaville, Leipzig and Tallinn. Ansuman Biswas plays fusion percussion and draws on jazz, Indian classical and experimental sources.

Biswas is an award-winning musician whose projects range from film and live art to theatre, and who has worked with the National Theatre, the Royal Ballet, English National Opera, the BBC, Channel 4, MTV, the Royal Opera House and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The concert takes place at Hundred Years Gallery, a gallery in London.