Mana presents a matinee performance of satanic whispers and playful devilry.

Jacob Dwyer will perform live material formed from his recent album The Devil Museum, released on London label Mana last month, and previously exhibited at Corridor Project Space and as part of Under Bat Hill at W139, Amsterdam.

Zaheer Gulamhusein will perform a live AV set of satanic whisperings. His musical work as Waswaas and XVARR has been released on labels The Trilogy Tapes, Kashual Plastik, Good Morning Tapes, Blowing Up The Workshop, VIS, and through limited self-released editions.

Recording The Devil Museum in Valakupiai Forest, Lithuania.

The Devil Museum

For this event Jacob Dwyer will give a live performance of his audio drama, The Devil Museum, recently published on vinyl by Mana.

Existing somewhere between ambient, soundtrack, and radio play, The Devil Museum combines field recordings, spoken word and original compositions by Kareem Lotfy to suck you into a blue and beautiful narrative.

At Cafe Oto, Jacob will premier an adapted version of the work, scoring the piece live with foley and voice. The event marks the launch of the work's publication on vinyl.

“In January, 2018, I travelled to Lithuania. I was staying in a small wooden cabin in the middle of a forest and was there to photograph all 3,000 sculptures in the nearby Devil Museum. Over the following four weeks I kept an audio diary and recorded sounds. I met no one and spoke about meeting no one. I remembered Crow Man and the time I sold my mum a kilo of scallops for the price of mussels. I listened to the door hinge and I recorded the river, with its small islands of ice brushing up against the banks like a pulse. It’s a nice word, ‘pulse’; the motion of an artery as blood is driven through it by the heart.”