Severin Black

Running the experimental label and event series Archaic Vaults, Severin Black has been forming a worldwide community around marginal music since 2020; the most recent collaborations including shows and released material alongside John T. Gast, YL Hooi, oxhy, Ewa Awe, Flora Yin-Wong, Nexcyia, Lisa Lerkenfeldt and Christoph de Babalon. Using the label as an outlet for ongoing projects with violinist Vanessa Bedoret and sound artist Owen Pratt, Severin also has a sizeable discography under the techno alias Nape – the most recent being the album Ten Tonne Angel on Nick Klein’s Psychic Liberation imprint. They have played in spaces such as the ICA (London), KM28 (Berlin), Le Poisson Rouge (New York), Mission To Seafarers (Melbourne) and on a giant pipe organ in a north-east London church.