Monday 15 August 2022, 8pm
Delphine Dora is a musician, composer and improviser from France. Self-taught pianist and vocalist, her semi-spontaneous music has been enriched with new sounds over the years, including an interest in pipe church organ work, modular synthesizer and field recordings. The voice is also one of his privileged instruments: setting in voice and music of texts and poetry (Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Kathleen Raine, Ingeborg Bachmann, Baudelaire, etc. ), ancestral sketches sung in an imaginary and abstract language, vocal work in relation to space… Her iconoclastic and ever-changing music can be read as a personal cartography, based on an intuitive approach to composition and nourished by many approaches: avant-folk, songwriting, free improvisation, sound collage, electro-acoustic composition, field recordings, ambient.
In 2020, she released L’inattingible, her most ambitious record to date, composed entirely in French with 14 musicians from around the world and some 30 instruments: Adam Cadell (violin), Laura Naukkarinen (voice), Aby Vulliamy (viola, recorder…), Tom James Scott (piano), Sylvia Hallett (bicycle wheel, hurdy-gurdy..), Jackie McDowell (voice), Paulo Chagas (clarinet, flute), Taralie Peterson (saxophone, cello…), Gayle Brogan (violin, guitar, various objects…), le fruit vert (analog synthesizer…), etc.
In addition to her solo work, she has worked and collaborated on recordings and/or concerts with many french musicians : with Mocke, Eloïse Decazes, Bruno Duplant, Gilles Deles (in the duo Conatus), Mathias Dufil & Cathy Heyden (in the trio Simone Poussière), Claire Serres (in the duo Anima / Animus), and also international musicians of the experimental / alternative scene: Sophie Cooper, Susanna Wallumrod, Andrew Chalk, Raymond Dijkstra, Wolf Eyes, le fruit vert, Alessandro Bosetti, etc. She has also participated in musical readings, performance projects and film music.
Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer moving between violin, bowed bicycle wheel, saw, hurdy-gurdy, electronics and found objects. She currently plays solo, with the walk-in interactive installation, Colourscape. Recent collaborators have included Chris Dowding, Tansy Spinks, Ansuman Biswas, Michael Ormiston, Mike Adcock, Anthony Haddon, Mike Cooper, David Toop, Anna Homler, The Heliocentrics, Clive Bell, LaXula, Opera North, h2dance, Miranda Tufnell, Eva Karczag, Wonderful Beast, BBC Radio Drama, The Royal Shakespeare Company. She performs internationally as a solo improviser, having released six solo albums. She enjoys performing in unusual spaces, such as an Italian vineyard. She is currently working on the score for a new short film by Takako Nakasu, which draws on the theme of the Kuroko (a stage-hand clad in black).
http://sylviahallett.co.uk/index.htm
https://www.facebook.com/sylvia.hallett
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.
Aby is a musician and composer, performing and recording frequently as a violist, pianist and vocalist in a range of ensembles and collaborations.
Aby has shared the stage and/or studio with a brilliant array of musicians, including jazz/improv legends such as John Tchicai, Evan Parker, Maggie Nichols, Matt Bourne, Annie Whitehead, Karen Mantler, Krautrocker Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust and indie-rockers Yo La Tengo, with respected folk musicians such as Bridget St John, Mary Hampton, Ali Roberts, Lucy Farrell, The Trembling Bells and Mike Heron (The Incredible String Band), with popstars such as Isobel Campbell, Stevie Jackson (Belle and Sebastian), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap), and with national ensembles including The Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Aby’s ongoing collaborations include with Stevie Jones (Sound of Yell, since 2012), with Bill Wells (The National Jazz Trio of Scotland, since 2007 with releases on Karaoke Kalk since 2012), with the 14-piece Swiss band Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (since 2016) with Seth Bennett (En Bas, since 2014) with Matt Bourne (Isotach, since 2017) with James Mainwaring (since 2019), and with Keeley Forsyth (since 2020).
Aby features on over 40 albums recorded over the last 16 years. In October 2018 Aby released her first solo album, Spin Cycle, a collection of piano-based songs reflecting on her experience of motherhood.
http://www.abyvulliamy.co.uk/
