Wednesday 26 July 2023, 8pm
A night of smokey, subterranean electronics in celebration of Continuing A Worn Out Tradition III, the third instalment in the Archaic Vaults compilation series. All artists billed have contributed recordings to this debut vinyl release for the label. Copies will be available on the night.
Flora Yin-Wong is an artist, writer and DJ who uses rudimentary field recordings, granular synthesis, and traditional instruments, underpinned by influences from club culture. Through these disparate elements, her work channels her interest in philosophical and psychological themes such as faith, obsession, and ritual. She has been commissioned by and presented live at institutions like Palais de Tokyo in Paris, MACRO Roma, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Triennale Milano, Somerset House, The V&A, ISSUE Project Room New York, Volksbuhne Berlin, ATONAL, Unsound and MUTEK Festival to clubs like Berghain, fabric and Printworks. Her music has been released on labels like Modern Love, PAN, Shelter Press, Tectonic, and Nyege Nyege etc. In early 2023 she launched a label and publishing house, Doyenne, and was commissioned by Parisian sound institute INA GRM on a soundpiece designed for their 48 channel speaker system released as a split LP. In 2026/7 she'll release her new EPs with Nick Klein on Room40 and a new moniker Lily of the Valley on YYAA.
Running the experimental label and event series Archaic Vaults, Severin Black has been forming a worldwide community around marginal music since 2020. Their live practice centres around the sonic spectrums of ethereality and dissonance, primarily using woodwind and feedback improvisation. This has led to collaborations with Pavel Milyakov, Flora Yin-Wong, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Vanessa Bedoret, Chantal Michelle and Owen Pratt, performing in spaces such as the ICA (London), Volksbühne Theater (Berlin), Le Poisson Rouge (New York), Mission To Seafarers (Melbourne) and on a giant pipe organ in a north-east London church.
For this event, there will be a one-off performance of Severin Black's Country Music featuring special guests.
Burning Pyre is a British electronic musician based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His work explores ambient and electronic music modes in a modern context. Centring around a process focussed on melancholy and bittersweet sensibilities, his compositional practice recontextualises isolationist music’s emotional backbone to incorporate an approach to melody and contemporary production methods that reflects the societal impact of advancing technologies and the blurring borders between reality and our virtual lives.
Originally from Istanbul, Zeynep will be presenting their first body of work since becoming a Naturalized British Citizen. A departure from their previous releases, ‘Ancestral Ground’ on Berlin/London based label Archaic Vaults, ‘Memories of the Future’ on London based label Scorpio Red, and 'Another Sky Cassette' on Cafe Oto's very own OTOROKU, Zeynep is exploring more universal themes like love, loss, desire, time and faith with a sound that is deeply rooted in nostalgia for 90's trip-hop and alt-pop genres.
