Adjunct Ensemble is a fluid collective of musicians and artists led by Irish composer and producer Jamie Thompson. Their collagist anti-opera ‘Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy’, released on Diatribe Records, was The Guardian’s album of the month in May 2023 (a disorientating act of resistance). The record is a four-movement, 90-minute piece for jazz-punk trio, electronics, turntablist, spoken-word poet, and operatic soprano. A furious polyglottal work of colliding tongues and entanglements of improvisational practices, it implicates itself in the horror of the European Union’s failure to address the desperation of refugees at its borders. ‘Habits Of Assembly’, released in August 2024 on Touch Sensitive Records, is a fiery recording of an acclaimed live performance at Café Oto in London in 2023. Thompson is one half of the swooning, fatalist Ex-Isles.
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