Friday 21st April | 7pm | £8 advance tickets
Musica Lumini present... VÄLVĒ, Arch Garrison and Crayola Lectern
VÄLVĒ
Having cut her teeth in the cult bands Chrome Hoof and Knifeworld, Chlöe Herington is now forging her own soundworld under the monikor VÄLVĒ. The music can take many forms: "...found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks."
“Absolutely beautiful.”
Arch Garrison
Arch Garrison is the duo of Craig Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra) on guitar and James Larcombe (Stars in Battledress, William D Drake, NRSO) on organ and synth. Fortnum's approach to singing and songwriting is pastoral, low-key but deceptively complex - take a listen for yourself on the first two albums 'King of the Down' and 'I Will Be A Pilgrim', available on Bandcamp.
“Part of a line of non-conformist ‘English’ composers that encompass Robert Wyatt, William D Drake, Simon Jeffes and others, Fortnam’s writing is quietly brilliant throughout.”
Crayola Lectern
Their first gig in over three years, Crayola Lectern will on this occasion be playing as a duo, with Mr Crayola himself Chris Anderson on 'tragi-piano' and Al Strachan on cornet, synth and percussion. The sounds they make have been described as 'what psychedelic music would have sounded like had the Edwardians invented it,' and along with this there is a sure nod to the Canterbury scene of Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt, mixed in with the high melodrama of early cinema accompaniment, and more besides...
“With its swirling organs, stately piano and yearning trumpet calls, The Fall and Rise is pitched somewhere between the acid-enhanced fairground, the conservatory and the music hall. Nodding towards Kevin Ayers’ collaborations with orchestral arranger David Bedford, and an overlooked tradition of experimental but always melodic songwriting that draws equally on jazz, classical and easy-listening sources, it’s more pre-faded and worn down than cutting edge, but remains a warm, reflective and deeply human record.”
Plus DJ Fiery Biscuits flambéing his fig rolls.
Set times:
7:00pm: Doors
8:15pm: Start (rest TBC)