13/12/2025
⚡️⚡️FIRE EYE LAND STUDIOS⚡️⚡️. 📣 PSA! ft. Seán Carpio come to The Rose Hill! 📣
We are out-of-this-world excited to welcome back Robert Stillman for his album launch show - this time joined by multi-instrumentalist !
He’s spent the last 5 years playing with Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner in (plus supporting each gig solo!) and there’s a reason why - his music is exceptional.
Is it Jazz? Well, kinda - he's a sh*t hot Jazz saxophonist and muuulti-instrumentalist (he plays every instrument on his album 𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒘) - it's also very much soundscape and sound art and music concrete but feels like long form spiritual music too... You just gotta trust us and come hear for yourselves!
His Rose Hill show sees the launch of his new album 10,000 rivers - a speculative suite of 𝗷𝗮𝘇𝘇, 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 and 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗽-𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 compositions that challenge the myths of Silicon Valley’s early ‘90s techno-utopianism. He didn’t set out to make a concept album about Steve Jobs. But as a composer and improviser whose music asks questions about his relationship with reality, a curiosity about the promises and follies of technology took him there.
Highly original, wholly unclassifiable, 10,000 Rivers is part cultural critique, part sonic biography and takes the form of a series of songs, instrumentals and abstract soundscapes that respond directly to moments or paradigms from Jobs’ life. Twinkling, synthetic arpeggios sit alongside tumbledown acoustic improvisation – think Mort Garson meets Moondog – fragments of ambient sound collapse into queasy auto-tuned lullabies, the melancholy paradise of Brian Wilson-esque California Dreaming dismantled into uncanny free jazz freakouts.
✨ + support from the incredible ✨
THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2026 | 7PM | £12 ADV [£15 OTD] // £8 CONCS // PWYC
⋙ ⋙ tickets in the LIB + stories ⋘ ⋘
🎧 Reality Distortion Field - Robert Stillman.
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