Tuesday 18 July 2023, 8pm
GLARC descend on OTO once more, with a quadruple threat of label affiliated pals.
Propan - Propan was formed in 2011 by Norwegian vocalists Ina Sagstuen and Natali Abrahamsen Garner. They released their third album, Loom on GLARC in 2022 (GLARC000000000000000000000000015) , following Baby (Va Fongool 2016), Trending (SOFA 2019). The premise of this release was to construct semi-composed improvisations, layered in time, where timbre, texture, rhythm and form become layers in a sonic weaving. In contrast to their previous works where electronic manipulation was foregrounded, Loom stood out with its roomy acoustics. It is music which breathes with its surroundings, and consequently it feels alive, coarsely grained and warm. As described by the Quietus, Propan make “simple vocal patterns punching far above their weight”. Propan make a rare appearance in the UK at Oto as part of these 10 year celebrations so catch it!
Han - Han is a part-time noisemaker, part-time healthcare worker, part-time runner of the inimitable Events Research Programme institution (a monthly subscription-based events series), part-time recipient of the title of Scotland's “most successful cash-in-hand DJ”. She lives in Glasgow. With her first release, GLARC 00000000000000000000000000000016, she materialised the audio output of a fictitious institute of ecoterrorism with its unearthly hold music and cautionary reminders to make time to lie flat. Since then she has released a fantastically sludgy mixtape of original work on Trilogy Tapes alongside a slew of singles across various cassette compilations. Catch her in London before she goes off and travels the world.
https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-a-spoon-in-a-tub-10
Fantasy Land are David deBarra, Jack Sheehan and Isa Gordon.
Formed sometime in the temporal non-space of lockdown, this trio of pals spent months holed up in a DIY cabin-studio, surrounded by bog, making what would become their debut album: ADULT (GLARC 2023).
ADULT expresses a many great things: that madness is the truth of knowledge (an absurd concept in itself), that dischord is the well of cadence, that contemporary pastoral (‘folk’?) is as much a car-window donk as a reverb-setting on a ukulele, that the mating life of Daddy Long Legs deserves greater consideration in the ballad tradition.
Or, less pretentiously – this is fucking nuts and fucking class.
Lila Matsumoto, Greg Thomas, and Matthew Hamblin are Food People. They have been making sounds together since 2018 but have been friends for much longer. Their LP Many Glorious Petals is out on Feeding Tube; they’ve also had albums released by labels including Chocolate Monk, Sound Holes, Cardboard Club and Cosmovision Registros Andinos.
