Saturday 8th June | 3pm | £15 advance tickets
Earlier last year, Séance put on a really special vibey night of other worldly experimental, & ritualistic music and we are really happy they are back - this time with an all dayer event…here is what they have to say about it - also see vids where possible below of who is playing incase some of their poetic descriptions keep you guessing!
A day of arcana, caprices and wyrd waveforms as manifested by Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd., Kemper Norton, R.dyer and Agnes Haus.
Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd
'Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. was formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars stumbled from that psychic wreckage to congeal in a studio/artspace in an abandoned glove factory at the outer edges of Yeovil, Somerset. R.E.E.L. represents an atavistic and spontaneous wing of the more considered and philosophical approach of their work in Hacker Farm, pHarmerz, Magnétophone, Assembled Minds and IX Tab.'
Being a hybrid entity of some of our ongoing playlist favourites and one of the Wyrd Wild West's most essential components, the firsthand witnessing of a live R.E.E.L. action has ranked high among The Séance's wants since their initial inception as an ephemeral audiovisual happening for the Supernormal festival a few years ago. Hosting this three-headed myth machine's first Brighton mission is the stuff of dreams.
'Bounces hazily from Coldcut collage to Terry Riley-adjacent trance keys to rural acid house to ...austere minimal synth.' The Quietus
R.dyer
R.dyer’s hermetically singular avant wonkpop posits them as a most beloved fixture of this parish’s seething DIY noise and song pantheon. 2023 album Small Victories is a recent parlour favourite, and their Rose Hill performance of the same year, utilising - if memory serves - looped vocals and rudimentary flip chart diagrams while dressed as an ice cream, was one of the most confounding and enchanting we have witnessed. We are delighted to have them participate in this Séance.
'Found sounds, synth, musical saw, saxophone, nose-flute, folk harp, household objects, and light up shoelaces to create looped performances which move from baroque-pop to mesmerising soundscapes via acapella lullabies and stories about dogs in trainers.'
'Kitchen-sink orchestrations, the macro-micro focus, the sense of a universe both galactic and mundane, not to mention the theremins, clarinets, microtonal slippage, and musical saws. R.dyer is convincing us, as well as themselves, that beauty is what gets us through, by actively making art to that end.' Freq
Kemper Norton
A long-standing live favourite and recurrent apparition on The Séance since our earliest transmissions, Kemper Norton's accumulating works stand as a peerless gazeteer of England's occulted history, encompassing half-forgotten children's songs and folk dances and the sunken lands, abandoned mines and anomalous phenomena of his native Cornwall. New album Tall Trees (and other tales) finds him turning his excavatory ruminations inward to the time-befugged spectres of clubs and dancehalls past.
'The music of Kemper Norton streaks across the ages like a tipsy beach-comber, enthusiastically and expertly skipping across time’s tide and handpicking an array of instruments, contexts and influences to form what he succinctly describes as “coastal slurtronic folk”. ' The Quietus
'The lexicon of unusual folk instrumentation, all traditionally English (presumably Cornish), but remarkable for its unearthly, non-Western scales, is tiled up and funnelled, swirling, through the matrix of electronic music.' The Wire
Agnes Haus
Agnes Haus is a Brighton-based audio-visual artist and composer creating synthetic, fractured audioscapes as well as visual work for sound-based artists. Their murky sonic explorations revolve around semi-autonomous analogue sound made entirely with modular synthesizers. The album 'Sequel' was released in 2023 on the iconic cassette label Opal Tapes - with a sophomore LP out early summer 2024 . Their live performances are 100% improvisational and beautifully erratic. Visually, Agnes Haus explores dark and surreal visuals and has shown their work on prestigious screens and stages at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Attenborough Centre for the Arts, EarTH, Dark MOFO Festival, and Sonica Festival among others.
It pleases the Séance mightily to have Agnes return for us after their hypnotic Solstice set.
“…spiraling synth tendrils take flight amidst a cloud of celestial drones.” - First Floor
“ There’s a bleakness infused through the whole cassette… This sense of glassy-eyed sinisterism births a feeling there’s an extra presence over your shoulder as something darker permeates the room. ‘Sequel’ sits in a tainted gothic electronic void.” - Foxy Digitalis