Saturday 3 December 2022, 8pm
Great triple-bill from London based experimental music collective, Sagome featuring live sets from Tallinn-based, Ukrainian sound artist, Nikolaienko, and Berlin-based guitar-focused project, IRIS, plus a DJ set from Baroque Sunburst label co-founder, Big Hands.
Nikolaienko is a Ukrainian sound artist currently based in Tallinn, Estonia. Dmytro works mainly with outdated musical gear, which he uses to produce tape and cassette loops as a base material for his sound collages, like in his recent album “Rings” (2021), released on Jan Jelinek’s Faitiche label. He also has releases and appearances on such labels as 12th Isle, Graphical, Porridge Bullet, Kvitnu, Nexsound, Muscut and others. At the same time, Dmytro Nikolaienko is also a founder of Muscut (est. 2012, Kyiv) – a label focused on modern avant-garde Eastern European artists (Chillera, Pavel Milyakov, Mlin Patz, Bryozone, Indirect etc.) and a co-founder of Shukai – an archival label focused on bringing back to life the lost tapes from the underrated artists persecuted by censorship of Soviet period (Valentina Goncharova, Volodymyr Bystriakov, Shapoval Sextet etc.)
Heading from Berlin, IRIS are named after a Soviet-era Czech guitar: the Jolana Iris. The project is dedicated to this guitar, which the artist’s dad used to play in the 80s.
"The mysterious Iris turns in a whole LP of elegantly dubbed-out and drifting folk miniatures for Tax Free Records. There’s an addictive air of mystery here - soft drum machines bubble up around chiming guitar and smeared electronics. The spirits of both Woo and Deux Filles are present, as well as the whole Bons / Happy Return / Jam money / Spillage Fete thing and that recent Blackwater record. But, also, there’s the always coming back to yourself quality of Black Dice’s Beaches and Canyons and the un-mappable, senseless feeling of Steven Stapleton’s sound design. It’s DIY homemade psychedelia that’s refreshingly free of the standard tropes and has something warm, watery and surreal about it - like tripping on a wet lawn at night, or trying to see forever in the bottom of a suburban pond..” - All Night Flight review of ‘Speach’ LP.
Big Hands is a DJ and Producer known for his serpentine and labyrinthine electronic productions, in 2020 he founded - alongside Soreab - the label Baroque Sunburst which has released new and futuristic dance music.
https://baroquesunburst.bandcamp.com/
