Wednesday 26 March 2025, 7.30pm
Glasgow’s favourite cassette label GLARC gather four steaming hot new acts from their roster for a night including hand-forged improvised bells, unpronounceable keyboard symbols, imaginary organ ensembles, and abolitionist sonic ethnography.
‘Lene Otis Finn’ are Lene de Montaigu, Otis Jordan and Finn Rosenbaum. The trio have been playing together on and off for several years in Glasgow, often in outdoor spaces and with found objects. Last year they decided to capture their improvisations, and to collaboratively write music before parting ways and moving to different cities. Their live sets interweave the sounds of Finn’s own bells, which he forged in Glasgow behind an abandoned swimming pool, with found objects and various instruments, such as harmonium, french horn, clarinet and analogue synthesizer.
Louise and Romain - aka }Ï{ - met for the first time in 2019 through their common engagement in the french DIY scene, organizing various gigs and events in Paris. Sharing musical refs, and sparse listening sessions, they found themselves on a same musical approach, as a sensitive sculpted material, that would germ from the intimacy of a gesture more than a stylistic exercise.
}Ï{ was born this way, with the intention of using their daily dictaphone recordings by playing them like instruments to finally compose different musical paintings. This idea gives the name of their first album « Phone’s Paintings » (out on GLARC in 2025) that navigates freely between concrete music, poetic abstractions, and improvisations.
'Finton Coin is an autodidact organist and composer performing light music for toy instruments. His style combines the sounds of mid 20th century novelty records, cheap psychedelia, Shibuya-kei, and church music, completely discarding any sense of futurism and instead pursuing an ‘early music of the contemporary’. Finton Coin bears a passing resemblance to fellow composer and performer Max Syedtollan'
Listen : https://www.maxsyedtollan.net/
Masa Nazzal is an abolitionist researcher and organizer whose work is based around archiving and recording accounts of border violence along the EU’s Balkan borders against people in transit. Masa uses creative mediums, such as writing, sound, and embroidery to explore the affective ways state violence and borders rupture and redefine how people inhabit the world. Her work focuses on the transformative power of listening as a bridge towards solidarity, action, and change. Her debut album Slovenia Inshallah comes out on GLARC in April 2025.
