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"Sell out warning! Celestial music’s principal earthly acolyte, Laraaji’s astral ambient revelations, devotional drones and cosmic zither sermons cascade with inner light and zen laughter. It’s an iconic sound bath FFO: Brian Eno, Alice Coltrane, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Arthur Russell, Mary Lattimore. "
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Wednesday 30th April. The event starts at 19:00.
Strange Brew presents
Laraaji LIVE (day 2 of 2)
+ Tina Hitchens
+ Fohn
Wednesday 30th April
7pm - 10:30pm
[seated show!]
Based in New York City, Laraaji began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Influential British musician and record producer Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album of ambient music at his studio. Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances. In recent years his profile has enjoyed a renaissance via a series of new and reissued recordings on the All Saints label, as well as worldwide performances, laughter meditation workshops and deep listening sessions.
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Bristol-based noise-maker and Brunswick Club’s Tina Hitchens performs live with her beautiful improvisational styles of electronics, FX, field recordings and delicate flute compositions.
Tina's work spans multiple genres through free improvisation, sound art, and composition. Her work explores the borders of sound, the rhythms of our bodies in sound and our connection through sound. In addition to solo work, she performs widely with improvising groups including Bristol’s legendary Viridian Ensemble which advocates for female and femme experimental artists as well as Harpoon and Halftone.
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Fohn brings connection, displacement and new identities into the moment, on pastoral debut album Seanteach - informed by island life, marine folklore and musical tradition.
Connection to the land, the severing of earthly ties, explorations of environment, mythos and generational memory: under the moniker of Fohn, English violinist and producer Tom Connolly (Quade, AD93) takes to the fiddle on which he learned his craft as a child. Forging new bonds with his family’s island home off the coastal west of Ireland, their story is retold in Seanteach (Irish for ‘old house’), released on Odda Recordings.
Seanteach explores the nature of my relationship with Ireland, and Connemara in particular, where my dad’s family is from,” explains Connolly, speaking on a long-form work that blends new compositions on traditional Irish fiddle with ambient electronics and evocative field recordings.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
Laraaji LIVE (day 2 of 2)
+ Tina Hitchens
+ Fohn
Wednesday 30th April
7pm - 10:30pm
[seated show!]
Based in New York City, Laraaji began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Influential British musician and record producer Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album of ambient music at his studio. Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances. In recent years his profile has enjoyed a renaissance via a series of new and reissued recordings on the All Saints label, as well as worldwide performances, laughter meditation workshops and deep listening sessions.
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Bristol-based noise-maker and Brunswick Club’s Tina Hitchens performs live with her beautiful improvisational styles of electronics, FX, field recordings and delicate flute compositions.
Tina's work spans multiple genres through free improvisation, sound art, and composition. Her work explores the borders of sound, the rhythms of our bodies in sound and our connection through sound. In addition to solo work, she performs widely with improvising groups including Bristol’s legendary Viridian Ensemble which advocates for female and femme experimental artists as well as Harpoon and Halftone.
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Fohn brings connection, displacement and new identities into the moment, on pastoral debut album Seanteach - informed by island life, marine folklore and musical tradition.
Connection to the land, the severing of earthly ties, explorations of environment, mythos and generational memory: under the moniker of Fohn, English violinist and producer Tom Connolly (Quade, AD93) takes to the fiddle on which he learned his craft as a child. Forging new bonds with his family’s island home off the coastal west of Ireland, their story is retold in Seanteach (Irish for ‘old house’), released on Odda Recordings.
Seanteach explores the nature of my relationship with Ireland, and Connemara in particular, where my dad’s family is from,” explains Connolly, speaking on a long-form work that blends new compositions on traditional Irish fiddle with ambient electronics and evocative field recordings.
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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