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"It’s Japan vs. Kenya in this race for most future-forward music-makers. Kakuhan’s delirious cello-led IDM excursions stutter like a machine learning World of Echo, while KMRU’s microtonal found-sound world-building will leave you breathless in full AV wonderment. Unbelievable neuro-plasticity sonics FFO: Jlin, Mark Fell, claire rousay, Fennesz, Akira OST, Visible Cloaks."
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Wednesday 15th May. The event starts at 19:00.
Accidental Meetings x Strange Brew presents:
KMRU (Kenya) +
Kakuhan (Japan)
Dylan Henner
i-sha
May 15th // 7pm
Seated & Standing tickets available
Super excited for the first official Accidental Meetings x Strange Brew collab, featuring three artists from very different parts of the world both turning electronic music on its head. If you made it to the goat show last year this is a follow up of sorts - totally unmissable for the electronic heads - for fans of: Autechre, Tim Hecker, goat (jp), Shackleton, Felicia Atkinson +++
KMRU: Kenyan sound artist, ambient musician and writer making lush textural compositions from field recordings, improvisation, machine learning, radio art and drones. His music and writings are disrupting electronica's Eurocentric discourse, releasing on Editions Mego, Subtext & Warp whilst now touring the world's most prestigious art venues & festivals including the Barbican. His most recent release ‘differ’ is an exploration of powerful bass textures with Kevin Martin (aka The Bug).
Kakuhan: Boomkat's favourite Japanese duo merging cello & deep, ritualistic & rhythmic workouts. Featuring Koshiri Hino aka YPY aka one member of goat (jp), who blew the lid off Brew last year, plus Yuki Nakagawa who has worked with Eli Keszler and Joe Talia among many others. 2022's futureshock masterpiece Metal Zone is up there with our albums of the year - combining taut, viscous rhythms with a sound palette drawing on grime, metal, Autechre-esque electronics and classical / chamber sounds of Grouper & co - we are expecting this to be very special live.
Dylan Henner (AD93): Very little is known about Dylan Henner, who appeared on the experimental-ambient scene with his debut longplayer The Invention of the Human, released on AD93 in 2020 and immediately receiving a much-coveted place on BBC 6Music’s Albums Of The Year list. His music comprises human-not-human soundscapes built from synthesized and processed voices and choirs, synthesis, marimba, and field recordings, all morphed into wide-ranging symphonies with moods ranging from serene and cerebral to alienated and desolate, referencing ambient and experimental music, sound design and filmscore.
Reserved seating and unreserved standing tickets available - available on Headfirst now
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
KMRU (Kenya) +
Kakuhan (Japan)
Dylan Henner
i-sha
May 15th // 7pm
Seated & Standing tickets available
Super excited for the first official Accidental Meetings x Strange Brew collab, featuring three artists from very different parts of the world both turning electronic music on its head. If you made it to the goat show last year this is a follow up of sorts - totally unmissable for the electronic heads - for fans of: Autechre, Tim Hecker, goat (jp), Shackleton, Felicia Atkinson +++
KMRU: Kenyan sound artist, ambient musician and writer making lush textural compositions from field recordings, improvisation, machine learning, radio art and drones. His music and writings are disrupting electronica's Eurocentric discourse, releasing on Editions Mego, Subtext & Warp whilst now touring the world's most prestigious art venues & festivals including the Barbican. His most recent release ‘differ’ is an exploration of powerful bass textures with Kevin Martin (aka The Bug).
Kakuhan: Boomkat's favourite Japanese duo merging cello & deep, ritualistic & rhythmic workouts. Featuring Koshiri Hino aka YPY aka one member of goat (jp), who blew the lid off Brew last year, plus Yuki Nakagawa who has worked with Eli Keszler and Joe Talia among many others. 2022's futureshock masterpiece Metal Zone is up there with our albums of the year - combining taut, viscous rhythms with a sound palette drawing on grime, metal, Autechre-esque electronics and classical / chamber sounds of Grouper & co - we are expecting this to be very special live.
Dylan Henner (AD93): Very little is known about Dylan Henner, who appeared on the experimental-ambient scene with his debut longplayer The Invention of the Human, released on AD93 in 2020 and immediately receiving a much-coveted place on BBC 6Music’s Albums Of The Year list. His music comprises human-not-human soundscapes built from synthesized and processed voices and choirs, synthesis, marimba, and field recordings, all morphed into wide-ranging symphonies with moods ranging from serene and cerebral to alienated and desolate, referencing ambient and experimental music, sound design and filmscore.
Reserved seating and unreserved standing tickets available - available on Headfirst now
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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