It is with GREAT sadness that we are postponing this Wednesday's show with Vula Viel. This was possibly our favourite live show from last year, and their new album and live performance was set to be even more astounding as they grow together.
If you have bought a ticket and would consider waiving the refund, then these funds will be split between reimbursing some of the enormous losses the band are already facing from tour cancellations and our amazing staff who have seen most of their upcoming work cancelled.
If you need a refund, we totally understand and will sort ASAP – please email eleanor@therosehill.co.uk.
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Following the acclaimed release of ‘Do Not Be Afraid’ and a busy tour that took them from UK to Europe and back, including a stellar performance at Womad captured by BBC Radio 3, Vula Viel return with a new album.
The band continue their sonic explorations around the gyil, the wooden xylophone of the Dagaare from Upper West Ghana, on their brand new album, ‘What’s Not Enough About That’.
Picking up from early 2019’s ‘Do Not Be Afraid’, the new album breaks new ground as Bex Burch (gyil), Ruth Goller (bass) and Jim Hart (drums) continue to forge their own unique fusions. While ‘Do Not Be Afraid’ developed ideas around disciplined ‘rhythm wheels’, rhythm patterns in regular cycles set to the band’s angular instrumentation, the new tracks stretch out the band’s sound, at times delicate and at others moving into raw post punk soundscapes.
We're super excited to have them performing at The Rose Hill again!
'Centred on the Ghanaian gyil xylophone, Vula Viel’s newer pieces have stripped down traditional structures to find a more spacious freedom. With Ruth Goller’s punk-edged bass a notable foil to Bex Burch’s flailing gyil and Jim Hart’s polyrhythmic drumming feeding both, the results were often thrilling.'
WOMAD 2019 Jazzwise review