Saturday 19 January 2019, 7.30pm
Ectoplasm Girls is an audiovisual ongoing project initiated in 2007 by sisters Nadine Byrne and Tanya Byrne, with the intention of expressing their joint fascination and experiences with death and dreams, manifesting these subjects trough sound and video.
"Nadine and Tanya Byrne create pop music for the phenomenal world. Taking influence from punk, industrial and minimal wave, the Swedish duo have released two unnerving records as The Ectoplasm Girls on Joachim Nordwall’s iDEAL imprint, crafting distant and muted sounds for the unsettled sleeper. As solo artists, their material investigates liminal spaces: this year Nadine released Dreaming Remembering, a record that abstracts techno and drone into songs of broken memories, while Tanya has released solo material as Hypnotower, experimenting with noise-drenched trance on Unlearn. With a multi-media performance that includes improvised music and visuals, Bates Mill Photographic Studio provides a fitting twilight zone for The Ectoplasm Girls." – HCMF
Nadine Byrne is a musician and visual artist based in Stockholm. Her interdisciplinary artistic practice spans across sound, sculpture, performance and film. She often explores themes of memory and loss originating in her own personal history. Her practice is also informed by her fascination towards visual and social manifestations of alternative constructions of reality. Byrne has performed internationally and released albums as part of the ongoing audiovisual project Ectoplasm Girls together with her sister Tanya Byrne, and solo under the name The Magic State (2008-2011) as well as under her own name. Her latest album ’Dreaming Remembering' was released in May 2018 on iDEAL Recordings.
London based duo who debuted with a triptych of albums for the unimpeachable Mordant Music through 2016-2017. Followed by a fourth on the singular Outer Reaches (2020) and were part of the Cafe Oto Takuroku digital series. Their last album 'forgeries' was released in early 2023. "This is one for late nights and misty mornings....musique concrete, haunted folk and some dub attitude" (Rewind Forward). A new album is on the horizon in 2025 via Altered States Tapes out of Hobart, Australia.Beginning as a dare, live shows became central to their way of working. Outings included an inaugural performance in Paris, support for Tropa Macaca and Echtoplasm Girls. Most recently they played Strange Brew, Bristol with Fiesta En El Vacio and Acte Bonte.
Their live emissions are based on electronics that breathe! Incorporating sonic place, sonic space with all manner of sound-makers and once eloquently described as "Dank!!" (Jackson Burton).They have recently set up the Goods Outward label with no set of rules; more a set of possibilities. Mysteries, histories and curiosities. So far, releases include full albums by Middex, Eli!, P.Vivax, picoFarad and a Jim Edgar Morgan soundtrack. With more scheduled for 2025.
