Wednesday 3 August 2022, 8pm
Archaic Vaults presents: oxhy + Severin Black + Zeynep Ağcabay (dj)
OXHY is London producer Oscar Khan, founder of XQUISITE and a longstanding presence in the city’s experimental underground. His work moves between gothic sound design, leftfield club music and more melodic, song-based forms, from the 2021 LP Woodland Dance to the 2025 album the names of god. He has collaborated with artists including Yves Tumor and Felix Lee, while recent releases have also featured Crystallmess, Susu Laroche, Heith and James K.
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.
Born and raised in Istanbul, Zeynep Ağcabay's music explores the juxtaposition of Eastern and Western influences on their identity. Growing up with traditional Turkish music playing at home, Zeynep went on to discover new roots in London. Their experimental approach aims to discover a unique blend of these two sonic worlds by composing unusual structures of abstract percussions, ambiguous vocals, ambient soundscapes mixed in with instruments inspired by Turkish ney, kanun, davul and darbuka. Their first release was part of the label Archaic Vaults cassette compilation ‘Continuing a Worn Out Tradition II', released in July 2021.