Friday 1 October 2021, 7.30pm
We're sorry to announce that unfortunately Christoph de Babalon has had to pull ourt of this performance. However, the incredible Valentina Magaletti will be joining a fantastic triple-bill from the A Colourful Storm label, alongside Berlin-based solo artist, Mark, and Princess Diana of Wales.
Valentina Magaletti, drummer-composer and multi-instrumentalist, returns to the stage for A Colourful Storm, following La Tempesta Colorata (2023), a compilation appearance on Soon I'll Run Out of Air (2024) and a multitude of solo and collaborative releases.
Magaletti's versatile technique, which can incorporate anything from vibes and marimba to contact microphones and found objects, results in a style that is forever evolving. Feeling just as comfortable performing behind a delicate ceramic kit as she does hammering out motorik rhythms, her creative take on percussion has resulted in an extremely diverse discography.
As a drummer, Magaletti moves effortlessly between the seemingly disparate worlds of alternative and mainstream music. She has played with artists such as Jandek, Pat Thomas, Deb Googe, Malcolm Mooney, Thurston Moore, Steve Beresford, Steve Shelley, Lafawndah, Mica Levi, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Nicolas Jaar to name a few. In addition to collaborating with the gamelan Ensemble Nist-Nah and drummers Malcom Catto, Julian Sartorius and Charles Hayward, she has played with stalwarts of the experimental underground scene like Gnod’s Marlene Ribeiro, Wire’s Graham Lewis, and Thighpaulsandra (Coil). In 2017, Valentina participated in The Can Project, standing in for the late Jaki Liebezeit, at London’s Barbican Centre.
Magaletti’s compositional credits are just as elaborate: with Tom Relleen, she was one half of Tomaga; with Al Wootton, she creates irresistible claustrophobic dub as Holy Tongue; with Pino Montecalvo, under the Avvitagalli alias, Valentina improvises intricate sonic collages; alongside percussionist João Pais Filipe, as CZN, she constructs hallucinatory rhythmic worlds, which are as fragile as they are eternal; with Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead, she plays as Moin.
Berlin-based Mark is a solo artist whose meticulous drum and bass abstractions elevate elements of rave, musique concrète and serialist composition into dizzying heights. His sound first appeared on A Colourful Storm in 2017 with Here Comes A Fucking Startup Campus instigating a sequence of 12” singles which would see release on Unterton, initiate collaborations with Carla dal Forno, Wilted Woman and Silvia Kastel, and culminate in 2020’s Split with Christoph de Babalon.
London based Australian musician Laila Sakini steps out from behind the disguise of Princess Diana of Wales, A Colourful Storm’s newest and most curiously cloaked project. Someone, no one, a notion, a feeling…
On Princess Diana Of Wales Sakini finds a contemplative and opaque downstroke, her forlorn vocals convected via radiant webs of reverb in an ephemeral style of songcraft that drifts effortlessly, like the sound of someone coming to terms with themselves.
Ponderous instrumentation, including heavy low-tuned guitar, soft clicking percussion, ad-lib multilayered vocals and found sounds. Twisting, hyperventilating harmonica, sub-bass and breakbeats of swollen soundsystem intensity and stretched and manipulated high-register vocals.
Diana offers clues but no simple answers.
"An enigma with a purpose" - The Wire Magazine, 2021
"Princess Diana of Wales resonates with these strange twilight times above perhaps anything else we’ve listened to this year." - Boomkat, 2021
“With each listen, there's another line, another noise, that jumps out from Sakini's sonic coral reef, a reef that feels simultaneously uplifting and deeply distressing.“ - Resident Advisor, 2022.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
