Riki Gooch & Jeff Henderson North Island Tour Announced

Aotearoa sonic visionaries Riki Gooch and Jeff Henderson are combining their boundless creative energies for a non-stop North Island tour kicking off in late March, celebrating the launch of their "double album of saxophone / clarinet and drum duets" Riki Gooch & Jeff Henderson Volume 1 via iiii Records. With a more than two decades of collaborative works under their belts, the pair have played together in such open-eared outfits as Superstarz, The Metabolists, Eru Dangerspiel and The Slowdown, amongst many others. Gooch's project Cave Circles released a new orchestral album titled Tuone - Found in Translation earlier this week and Jeff Henderson dropped his woodwind-tooting solo opus The Charming Clarinet late last year – experience the pair's musical mind-meld at the dates below...

UPDATE 18/03/20: Riki Gooch and Jeff Henderson's March / April tour has been postponed until a later date, all their autumn live events are cancelled due to COVID-19...

Riki Gooch & Jeff Henderson 2020 Tour 

Friday 27th March – Audio Foundation, Auckland* [cancelled]
Saturday 28th March – New Gallery, Whangarei* [cancelled]
Sunday 29th March – Māha at Wharepuke, 190 Kerikeri Road, Kerikeri* [cancelled]
Tuesday 31st March – The Incubator/Jam Factory, Tauranga* [cancelled]
Wednesday 1st April - The Dome Cinema, Gisborne* [cancelled]
Thursday 2nd April – The Sitting Room Sessions, Te Awanga [cancelled]
Friday 3rd April – Snails, Palmerston North w/ Marcus Hermit* [cancelled]
Saturday 4th April – Pyramid Club, Wellington w/ Solly/Callwood/Smith* [cancelled]

Press release:

Riki Gooch and Jeff Henderson are embarking on a North Island tour to coincide with the release of a double album of saxophone/clarinet and drum duets on iiii Records.

The pair have along history of music making together and have collaborated on numerous projects including the minimal drone trio ‘The Metabolists’ with David Long (The Muttonbirds), Riki’s behemoth ensemble ‘Eru Dangerspiel’, wild psych/blues unit ‘Superstarz’, faux ethno-futurist quartet ‘The Slowdown’ (with Parks and Chris O’Connor) and numerous other adventurous music groups.

Both musicians grew up in Dunedin and met in Wellington during the creatively fertile ‘90’s through studies at the Conservatorium of Music. After over twenty years of collaborating and musical exploration the duo have a telepathic intuitive communication which they will share throughout the North Island this March/April.