"Monday Night Confessions" is a weekly show presenting original jazz/improvised music. Run out of Church Street Studios in Camperdown, Sydney, we acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

9th February 2026 - Ground Patrol (AUS/USA) 'Converge' album launch // Underwards 'The Scrubs' single launch

Ground Patrol (AUS/USA)

Kyle Sanna - guitar & bass
Alon Ilsar - drums & percussion

with guest
Benjamin Campbell - bass

Ground Patrol is the Brooklyn/Sydney guitar-and-drums duo of Kyle Sanna and Alon Ilsar. Their music blends improvisation, evolving loops, and rhythmic interplay, creating trance-like structures that shift subtly over time. The duo are celebrating the release of their fifth album, Converge, through Art As Catharsis. Thematically, Converge reflects a period of personal transition for both musicians: new parenthood, post-Covid reorientation, and parallel creative growth. As ever, the group skirt the boundaries of math rock, progressive and experimental forms to create hypnotic sonic landscapes.

The duo have released four previous albums - Drift (2017), Search (2018), Geophone (2020), and Migrations (2021) - earning comparisons to The Necks, Battles, Oren Ambarchi, Tortoise, and Dawn of Midi.

https://groundpatrol.bandcamp.com/album/converge

Underwards

Ellen Kirkwood - trumpet, voice
Hilary Geddes - guitar, effects
Brendan Clark - electric bass, effects
Alex Inman-Hislop - drums

Evoking places and experiences in nature through a rich blend of jazz and experimental music, with hints of folk and contemporary classical, Underwards is led by award-winning composer and trumpeter Ellen Kirkwood. Currently, the majority of Underwards’ works form part of Kirkwood’s PhD project, exploring respectful Indigenous-informed immersive connecting with and learning from Country. At this edition of Monday Night Confessions they will be launching ‘The Scrubs’: a tangled punk-jazz response to overgrown, unhealthy Australian bush that’s a firey disaster waiting to happen.

“Deeply sensitive, intellectually inquisitive, modern and of today. Underwards is breaking the jazz coma.”- Eric Pozza, Canberra Jazz Blog

“Beauty blended with visceral excitement” - John Shand and Annabel Ross, Sydney Morning Herald

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks

Contact the host of Ground Patrol (AUS/USA) 'Converge' album launch // Underwards 'The Scrubs' single launch