Tuesday 18 July 2023, 8pm
GLARC descend on OTO once more, with a quadruple threat of label affiliated pals.
Propan was founded in 2011 by Norweigan vocalists Ina Sagstuen and Natali Abrahamsen Garner. They have toured widely throughout the world, including Japan, Australia, USA and Europe. They released their third album, Loom on GLARC in 2022 , following Baby (Va Fongool 2016), Trending (SOFA 2019). The album featured 16 stunning pieces of semi-composed improvisations, layered in time, where timbre, texture, rhythm and form become layers in a sonic weaving, and was featured on Radio Three and the Quietus, who said: “I absolutely love this cassette [...] Loom sits just right on my synapses, simple vocal patterns punching far above their weight”
The Duo come to Oto as part of a wider UK tour, their first since Loom.
Han spends half of her time working in NHS operating theatres and the other half of her time making weird noise music about institutions. She lives in Glasgow where she runs membership-based experimental gig series Events Research Programme, is a resident DJ at La Cheetah, and edits radical healthcare zine The Guts of It.
Fantasy Land are David deBarra, Jack Sheehan and Isa Gordon.
Formed sometime in the temporal non-space of lockdown, this trio of pals spent months holed up in a DIY cabin-studio, surrounded by bog, making what would become their debut album: ADULT (GLARC 2023).
ADULT expresses a many great things: that madness is the truth of knowledge (an absurd concept in itself), that dischord is the well of cadence, that contemporary pastoral (‘folk’?) is as much a car-window donk as a reverb-setting on a ukulele, that the mating life of Daddy Long Legs deserves greater consideration in the ballad tradition.
Or, less pretentiously – this is fucking nuts and fucking class.
Lila Matsumoto, Greg Thomas, and Matthew Hamblin are Food People. They have been making sounds together since 2018 but have been friends for much longer. Their LP Many Glorious Petals is out on Feeding Tube; they’ve also had albums released by labels including Chocolate Monk, Sound Holes, Cardboard Club and Cosmovision Registros Andinos.
