Friday 9 August 2024, 7.30pm
Laila Sakini will present an extended solo set, encompassing two halves. She will supported by DJ’s Komare (Dom and Peter) playing records throughout.
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and performer Laila Sakini is London based, Melbourne born.
Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP), Cupo (LP w/ Valentina Magalett) and Figures (LP w/ Dr Lucy Van) among several single, EPs and her tape series Mystery Messages.
Working with piano, voice, guitar and silence Laila creates dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses.
Laila has performed at: Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, De Nor, Listen! festival, Gaudeamus Festival, Meakusma x Arkaoda, The London Handel Festival, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho, Intonal Festival and among others.
She has been featured several times in The Wire Magazine, graced the cover of Switzerland’s cult Zweikommasiben music magazine, been featured on BBC1, in Frances’ Les Inrockuptibles, LA’s AQNB, Belgium’s Gonzo magazine, Italy’s Blow Up and in several specials on NTS Radio, LYL, Dublab, Red Light.
“It’s like a dream where everything’s bright and gilded and beautiful but you keep remembering something is very, very wrong” - Low Company, 2020
"Laila Sakini is producing some of the most vital and brittle music of our time.” – Boomkat, 2020
“An enigma with a purpose” – The Wire Magazine, 2021
“With each listen, there's another line, another noise, that jumps out from Sakini's sonic coral reef, a reef that feels simultaneously uplifting and deeply distressing.“ - Resident Advisor, 2022.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
Komare is Dominic Goodman and Peter Blundell who also make up two-thirds of Mosquitoes. Somewhat of an estranged cousin to Mosquitoes take on re-ruffled rock, Komare resides more as a dub-influenced exploration of the outer fringes, creating a thick vibrational delusion. Somehow like Zweistein mixing a Robert Ashley record, Komare is an exceptional space and time stretching disorientator. In the process of rendering reality, redundant Komare gleefully lead the listener into a netherworld of holographic, hallucinatory audio. Shades of Monoton and Pyrolator may also be detected as can the impression of intoxicants wafting around the mixing console. This is a state where humans and machines, though present, are smeared of all traceable attributes. The depths of the journey move further into a netherworld as the sound progresses/disintegrates. Not necessarily one for the beauty seekers, Komare is an extremely deep trip concocted by two unbridled creative crusaders.
https://www.penultimatepress.com/product/komare-the-sense-of-hearing-lp/
https://soundcloud.com/quockenzocker/a5-komare-pp46-master
