Wednesday 4 August 2021, 7.30pm

Painting by Marie Lawrence

Daniel O'Sullivan Residency: Mothlite (featuring Brigid Mae Power) plays 'The Colour Of Entropy' + No Show + Secluded Bronte

No Longer Available

**Afraid to announce that due to illness Merlin Nova is unable to join us on Wednesday for the Daniel O'Sullivan residency. In her place, 'No Show', the duo of brothers Louis and Harry Stevenson Miller, will be stepping in.**

"The music of Daniel O'Sullivan plays like a haunted jukebox." - Wire

"A multi-dimensional artist that successfully soundtracks our profoundly confusing 21st century" - Prog

"O'Sullivan's dreampop mantras casually open up portals into other dimensions" - Uncut

Daniel O'Sullivan is a composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer living and working in South West London and has been contributing a vibrant, chameleonic brew to the music landscape since the late 1990's. He has achieved international acclaim writing, recording and performing both solo and with a myriad of celebrated groups including Grumbling Fur, Ulver, Sunn O))), Guapo, Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses, Laniakea, Miracle, Æthenor and This Is Not This Heat.

DOS collages a wide range of musical disciplines and has collaborated with a number of artists including several live performances and recordings with 'continuous music' pioneer Charlemagne Palestine and large scale surround sound/AV installations with Turner prize-nominee Mark Titchner. As well as playing and recording several albums with Norwegian experimental metal group Ulver and occasionally donning the robe with Sunn O))), O'Sullivan has been at the core of the wildly successful reincarnation of This Heat as a live entity.

Whether solo or in his varied collaborative projects, O’Sullivan’s work is strikingly dense and allusive, alive with enticing sonic diversions, hypnotic syncopation and highly ornamented song-craft. Both lyrically and within the intricately knitted arrangements, traditional forms are reshaped into transcendent pocket symphonies. Both intimate and alien, archetypal and atypical, joyous and melancholic, the aperture of O’Sullivan’s music is wide open and light streams in.

Merlin Nova

Merlin Nova is sound, song and movement. Her work is conceptual and merges her music and theatrical background. At the moment she is asking questions and runs a play group for adults called the Players' Circle. Nova released her ‘creepy, funny and all out terrifying’ (The Wire) debut album BOO! (2020) and her energetic choral EP Big Heart, long time love (2021). She has worked with Slow Dance, NTS, Young Turks, Café Oto and BBC Radio 6 Late Junction and has performed across the UK and Europe.

https://www.instagram.com/_merlinnova_
https://www.merlin-nova.com

Photo by Sophie le Roux

Secluded Bronte

Secluded Bronte are Richard Thomas, Jonathan Bohman and Adam Bohman. Secluded Bronte formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002. Their music combines free improvisation, speech, musique concrète, pop, rock 'n' roll, music-theatre, expanded cinema... you name it. It's heterogenous stuff.

Secluded Bronte have toured in the United States and throughout Europe. They have recorded live sessions for BBC Radio 3, WFMU, Concertzender, Resonance FM. Secluded Bronte have released six albums and two singles: Secluded in Jersey City (Pogus), Dark August Variations (Worm Records/K7-3), Ten Point Plan To Destroy Astrology (Singing Knives), For Entertainment Everyone Dies (Apolkalypso), Daughter Tunnel Sunlight (Ffordd Allan). In 2020 the group released two albums on the Ffordd Allan label, Magnetic Crochet and the live album Queen's. In November a third album, The Horns of Andromeda, was released on Takuroku.

https://twitter.com/secludedbronte
http://secludedbrontemusic.tumblr.com
https://soundcloud.com/secluded-bronte