With the renewed interest in the film Nosferatu, following a recently released remake, Elusive Jazz are putting on a special intimate screening on the original 1922 film at The Northern Market on Tuesday 21st January.

This will be accompanied by an original improvised live score, and a special performance by Michaela Antalová & Adrian Myhr.

The duo (who will play as part of the Nosferatu improv ensemble, alongisde doing some originals) will be using Slovak traditional fujara flute, Norwegian willow flute, double bass and field recordings.

Slovakian flautist Michaela Antalová and Norwegian double bassist Adrian Myhr blend traditional folk musics from their respective countries with
field recordings to compose new hybrid soundscapes. The Oslo-based couple have a background in avant-garde, contemporary, improv and jazz  music and recorded a debut album together at their home during the Covid-19 lockdown. The meditative Zvony (Bells) featured harmonium,  field recordings of crickets and a Slovak male choir. This year’s follow up, Sing Nightingale, released by Slovakian label mappa (2024), is an intoxicating folk record. Featuring a field recording of a nocturnal nightingale, the album experiments with instruments from around the world, with the duo exploring their rich tonal textures. Myhr plays harmonium and double bass. Antalová plays drums, Slovakian fujara (a tall, upright wooden bass flute originally played by shepherds) and a Norwegian seljefløyte (a traditional flute very similar to the Slovak overtone flute koncovka). Their music finds a strange, soothing universality in the folk sounds of different countries.