Sunday 7 August 2022, 8pm
Bridget Hayden is a Todmorden-based musician & rural conjurer noted for her participation with free-form noise rock acts such as Sunburned Hand of The Man, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Schisms & Bong..
Her best work however, is when her phantasmic voice is left to waltz solitarily with her own guitar or piano accompaniment. Bridget’s solo output is somewhat difficult to define, often falling into and swinging in-between the static-haze perplexity between words and worlds. Aching, yearning folk abstractions drift and swing between blistering, swelling guitar-crackle ecstatic fire, paradoxically concussing and elucidating. Ghost music for the living, breathing and feeling.
Some may draw comparisons to Grouper, The Space Lady, Cindy Lee, & Les Rallizes Denudes.
Ecka Mordecai is a British artist based in London. Situated between sonic, performative and olfactory disciplines, her work is driven by sensation: entwining cello, horsehair harp, voice, eggflute, scent and improvisation into time-based objects expressive of emotional complexity.
Both intimate and exacting, this body-driven practice defies formal constraints, undoing the limits of genre and allowing for works such as Aequill Sound, a line of niche perfumes inspired by elements of the East London soundscape, or Promise & Illusion (Otoroku, 2022), the album in which Ecka explores myriad internal states using the compositional device of a creaking door hinge (or charniére).
Performing since 2010, Ecka has appeared alongside the likes of David Toop, Malvern Brume, Thurston Moore, Keeley Forsyth, Ilan Volkov, Ex-Easter Island Head, Greta Buitkute, Dave Birchall and Kate Armitage. She has played at Cafe OTO, BBC Glasgow, Islington Mill and inside a Berlin wasserturm, amongst others.
She has projects with Revox tape performer Valerio Tricoli in the duo Mordecoli (The Addiction, Hedione 2022), and in the trio Circæa with Andrew Chalk and Tom James Scott (The Bridge of Dreams, Faraway Press, 2019).
U.K. based Thomas LaRoche/C.O.P (Creep Of Paris) is an insect breeder as well as the main representative of Research Laboratories.
His work has been described as “pungent muck”
