"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.

25th August 2025 - I Hold The Lion's Paw ALBUM LAUNCH (VIC) // K2 - Matt Keegan & Chloe Kim

I Hold The Lion's Paw

Reuben Lewis – trumpet, pedals, synths
Emily Bennett – synth, voice, electronics
Adam Halliwell – guitar, bass
Ronny Ferella – drums

Jon Hassell meets Ornette Coleman, meets Laurie Anderson. I Hold the Lion’s Paw sounds familiar and, at the same time, like nothing else you’ve ever heard.

Led by ARIA nominated trumpeter-producer Reuben Lewis, I Hold the Lion’s Paw is a gateway into an immersive world of twisted funk, electro-grunge and psychedelic jazz. This is music as assemblage, using the stage as a laboratory whilst practising post-production sorcery in real time.

I Hold the Lion’s Paw’s third studio album Potentially Interesting Jazz Music poses the rhetorical question: what is jazz, or, more pointedly, what might it be? By turn exploratory, playful, and experimental, it is a record that mashes slow-burn trumpet, bass grooves, synths, voice, spoken word, percussion, without ever losing its way or overplaying its hand. From ‘Mechanical Ghosts’, fashioned from electronics, beats, and eerie trumpet, through to ‘When the Earth and Sky Conspired’, underscored by Emily Bennett’s soaring vocal arrangements, Potentially Interesting Jazz Music represents the futuristic sounds of an improvising ensemble dedicated to continuous reinvention and renewal.

"Like a visit to a contemporary art museum, the album invites you to sit down, slow down, look closer, and listen deeper. In an age that rushes faster than reason, Potentially Interesting Jazz Music feels like a deliberate act of resistance."
— paris-move.com

“More likely was the feeling of having stumbled into someone else’s LSD trip”
— Sydney Morning Herald

https://reubenlewis.bandcamp.com/album/potentially-interesting-jazz-music

K2 - Matt Keegan & Chloe Kim

Matt Keegan - saxophones & electronics
Chloe Kim - drums & percussion

K2 was developed by Matt Keegan as an electro acoustic platform that encourages groove based improvised dialogue with guest artists. Inspired by the pioneering work of Eddie Harris and Miles Davis in the 1970’s, for the past 20 years Keegan has been creatively developing systems to manipulate woodwind instruments with electronic FX. Drawing from his extensive back catalogue of recorded work, he composes and performs using samples on the Elektron Octatrack, creating a unique soundscape that invites the listener to join the artists on an immersive, interactive sonic journey.

Doors 7:30pm

Show 8:00pm

Tickets: $15 Student / $25 General Admission

BYO drinks

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