Wednesday 17 November 2021, 7.30pm
Glasgow's GLARC label returns to OTO with a scintillating quadruple bill, headed up Able Noise, an experimental baritone guitar and drum duo, based between The Hague, the Netherlands and Athens, Greece.
Able Noise is a project composed of baritone guitar player George and drummer Alex, two experimental musicians based in The Hague and Athens respectively. Focusing on the live experience, the duo engineer a minimal and visual performance using voices, field recordings and cassette tapes to expand their unusual sound. In their live sets, Able Noise are known to shape their music through the physicality of their playing and the acoustics of the space.Following a cassette release on GLARC in 2020, Able Noise's debut album, High Tide, is to be released via World of Echo on 1st November
Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius. He uses loose structures and an array of sound-sources including home-made organs and hurdy gurdy. His performances are personal and intuitive, often coming across as delicate, evocative, and absurd.
He has recorded and performed with artists and musicians including Rie Nakajima, Judith Hamann, Lia Mazzari, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Mark Harwood, Marja Ahti & Niko Mahti Ahti, Antonina Nowacka, Malvern Brume, Lucia Nimcova and in the group Lo Escucho Lo Pinto.
He has released solo and collaborative music with labels such as Mappa, All Night Flight, Kashual Plastik, Infant Tree, Takuroku, Penultimate Press and Thanet Tape Centre and has toured widely, presenting performances at Cafe Oto (London), Fylkingen (Stockholm), KM28 (Berlin), Himera Festival (Turku), Kraak Festival (Antwerp), Organ Sound Art Festival (Copenhagen), Les Atelier Claus (Brussels), C3 (Milan), Jauna Muzika Festival (Vilnius), Braille Satellite (Lithuania), Counterflows Festival (Glasgow) and Glasgow International.
soft tissue is a collaboration between Glasgow-based artists and musicians Feronia Wennborg and Simon Weins. Working with DIY electronics, domestic recordings and digital feedback, the duo plays within networks of lo-fi amplification, blurring the boundaries between initiated and environmental sounds. In December 2019 soft tissue released their self-titled debut on Penultimate Press, and new work is due to be released by Students of Decay and GLARC in early 2022.Listen: https://penultimatepress.bandcamp.com/album/soft-tissue
Dahlia (aka Gordon Bruce) is a producer attempting to explore the frantic and playful sides of dance music. An EP is forthcoming with Accidental subsidiary NX Records, featuring collaborations with Luki, Ailia Coila and others.
Listen : https://dahliaa.bandcamp.com/
