Disruption! The Voice of Drums

featuring Simon Barker and Chloe Kim

Disruption! The Voice of Drums is a visceral collision of rhythm and resistance led by award-winning saxophonist-composer Jeremy Rose. At its core are drum visionaries Simon Barker, whose pioneering solo drumming has shaped a generation of musicians worldwide, and Chloe Kim, a fearless creative force recently signed to Charmaine Lee’s New York based Koh Records. Together, they summon a sound world that is at once ancient and futuristic, drawing on shamanic Korean traditions, the ecstatic improvisations of The Necks, and the drummers’ singular rhythmic languages.

With ecstatic ensemble textures, dense rhythmic entanglements and moments of quiet transcendence, Disruption! channels the elemental power of the drum as a tool for transformation. Their debut album was hailed as “ground-breaking in concept and monumental in scale” (Ausjazz.net) and “a brilliant collision of cultures and rhythms… should be brought to international festival stages as soon as possible” ★★★★★ (Jazzthetik, DE).

Disruption! is both urgent and reflective - music for a turbulent era of civil unrest and ecological crisis, and a reminder of the drum’s timeless role: to summon spirits, spark resistance, and bring communities together.

Jeremy Rose is an ARIA award-winning Sydney based saxophonist, composer, band leader and label director, whose music explores the intersection of socio-culture and genre, creating collaborative projects that span the globe. His music has been performed at festivals around Australia, Europe and the UK, has toured extensively in Australia, in Europe including touring and recording with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and The Vampires collaboration with guitarist Lionel Loueke. www.jeremyrose.com.au

 “buoyant invention: never seeming to flag or to want for new ideas… Jeremy Rose is one to watch on the Australian jazz scene… “ Jazzwise UK

 Simon Barker has performed throughout Australia, Europe, Asia and the US. In 2008 Emma Franz’s documentary feature Intangible Asset Number 82 followed Simon’s journey through Korea searching for enigmatic shaman Kim Seok Chul. His interest in developing new music with East Asian musicians has led to numerous collaborations including the Makoto Kuria Trio, Japan Australia Jazz Orchestra, Hoe Jin Oh Trio, Won Il, and improviser Kim Dae Hwan. He performs regularly with many of Australia’s finest jazz groups including The Australian Art Orchestra, Katie Noonan, Vince Jones, Scott Tinkler Trio, The Phil Slater quartet and the Matt McMahon Trio. Simon has also played with many international touring artists including Tim Berne, Marilyn Crispell, Joe Lovano, Sheila Jordan, Gary Smulyan, John Hicks and Carlos Ward. http://www.simonbarker.com.au/

 “Barker has few peers worldwide for flexibility, resourcefulness, imagination and a complete absence of rhythmic clichés.” Sydney Morning Herald

 Chloe Kim is a Korean-born, Sydney-based drummer and improviser whose music bridges traditions and geographies. Known for her unflinching improvisational approach and expressive command of extended percussion, she has performed across Australia and internationally in jazz, experimental, and new music contexts. In 2023, Kim gained global attention for her “Herculean” (The Guardian) performance of 100 hours of solo drumming across 10 days.

https://www.chloekimdrums.com/

 Hilary Geddes is a guitarist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney on Gadigal Land. She is the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow, a 2021 ABC Jazz Scholarship, and the 2019 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Hilary is the bandleader of the Hilary Geddes Quartet, and released her debut album 'Parkside' (ABC Jazz) with the band in 2021. Hilary works as an in-demand guitarist in the Australian jazz and improvised music scenes, performing alongside jazz luminaries such as Mike Nock, Lakecia Benjamin (USA) and Jonathan Zwartz. She holds the guitar chair in the large ensemble Pharos, is a member of Ellen Kirkwood's Underwards, and Jeremy Rose's Earshift Orchestra for the project 'Disruption! The Voice of Drums', which won an APRA Art Music Award in 2022. In 2023, she completed a successful tour of Germany with the Geddes/Haupt Quartet alongside bassist, Michael Haupt.

 Jacques Emery is a double bassist, composer and performer who works on Cammeraygal and Cadigal land. Born in 1997 to orchestral string players, Jacques cultivated a deep curiosity in all kinds of sound and music from a young age. His teenage years laid the path for an ongoing curiosity with many different musical disciplines, playing in youth orchestras, jazz band and composing his own music. He completed a Bachelor of jazz performance at the Sydney Conservatorium in 2019. He has toured Europe with the Australian Art Orchestra and plays regularly around Sydney with many groups including Zela Margossian Quintet and HEKKA.

Utterly mesmerising... shaping percussive patterns that incorporated ritualistic Korean rhythms, celebratory Afro-Latin jaunts and wave-like surges of pure energy.”
The Age, Melbourne

“primal spirituality… simultaneously sublime and visceral… Rose is a superb and accomplished musician who should be better known to North American melophiles. His mastery in all aspects of his artistry makes him a creative force with which to reckon. If not his masterpiece, Disruption! The Voice of Drums is definitely a highlight of his career and easily of the best releases of 2022.”
Hrayr Attarian, All About Jazz
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/disruption-the-voice-of-drums-jeremy-rose-and-the-earshift-orchestra-earshift-music

“An album that keeps you in suspense from start to finish, which leaves your ears hanging on the cries of Rose's saxophone, and your heart throbbing, ready to beat wildly at the slightest rhythmic thrill of the two solo percussionists.”
Djolo, France https://djolo.net/disruption-the-voice-of-drums-sombre-appel-jeremy-rose/  

“A varied, rewarding and hopeful record.”
Jazz (Orkester Journalen) Sweden, by Rikard Rehnbergh

“There’s a real sense of spectacle to the Australian saxophonist’s link up with the EO, making for tense, thrilling protest chamber jazz.”
MOJO Magazine (UK)

“The musical proposal not only goes beyond modern, improvised jazz, but is also an excellent document of a complex arrangement. …the orchestra and its soloists sound incredibly credible, becoming a universal jazz entity with an interesting reference both to the tradition of American modern jazz (JCOA Orchestra, Sun Ra) and to the carefully displayed academic textures.”
Era Jazzu, Poland, By Dioni Piatkowsky
https://jazz.pl/jeremy-rose-the-earshift-orchestra-distruptionthe-voice-of-drums-earshift-music/  

“an other-worldly salute to the voice and the power of the drums.”
Modern Drummer Magazine

…The whole hour-long suite is shrewdly constructed to create a coherent progression of concepts and moods.”

★★★★ John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald