Friday 1 October 2021, 7.30pm
We're sorry to announce that unfortunately Christoph de Babalon has had to pull ourt of this performance. However, the incredible Valentina Magaletti will be joining a fantastic triple-bill from the A Colourful Storm label, alongside Berlin-based solo artist, Mark, and Princess Diana of Wales.
Valentina Magaletti is an Italian-born, UK-based drummer, percussionist and composer whose explorative blend of ritualistic and electronic motifs have earned her recognition in the contemporary musical landscape.
Gaining prominence as part of acclaimed avant-pop group Vanishing Twin and improvisational duo Tomaga in the 2010s, Magaletti’s collaborative instinct and multi-instrumental skill have seen her record and perform with Jandek, Helm, Raime, Nicolas Jaar, Malcom Catto, Charles Hayward, Graham Lewis, Thighpaulsandra, Thurston Moore, Bat for Lashes, Gruff Rhys and many more.
Her current projects include CZN, Moin and Holy Tongue, where free jazz, drone and percussive elements meet sound system frequencies to devastating effect.
Berlin-based Mark is a solo artist whose meticulous drum and bass abstractions elevate elements of rave, musique concrète and serialist composition into dizzying heights. His sound first appeared on A Colourful Storm in 2017 with Here Comes A Fucking Startup Campus instigating a sequence of 12” singles which would see release on Unterton, initiate collaborations with Carla dal Forno, Wilted Woman and Silvia Kastel, and culminate in 2020’s Split with Christoph de Babalon.
London based Australian musician Laila Sakini steps out from behind the disguise of Princess Diana of Wales, A Colourful Storm’s newest and most curiously cloaked project. Someone, no one, a notion, a feeling…
On Princess Diana Of Wales Sakini finds a contemplative and opaque downstroke, her forlorn vocals convected via radiant webs of reverb in an ephemeral style of songcraft that drifts effortlessly, like the sound of someone coming to terms with themselves.
Ponderous instrumentation, including heavy low-tuned guitar, soft clicking percussion, ad-lib multilayered vocals and found sounds. Twisting, hyperventilating harmonica, sub-bass and breakbeats of swollen soundsystem intensity and stretched and manipulated high-register vocals.
Diana offers clues but no simple answers.
"An enigma with a purpose" - The Wire Magazine, 2021
"Princess Diana of Wales resonates with these strange twilight times above perhaps anything else we’ve listened to this year." - Boomkat, 2021
“With each listen, there's another line, another noise, that jumps out from Sakini's sonic coral reef, a reef that feels simultaneously uplifting and deeply distressing.“ - Resident Advisor, 2022.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
