Bird on the Wire presents an evening of intense drone-scaping with Canadian duo Nadja and two of the UK's finest drone merchants Plurals and Petrels.

NADJA

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff currently based in Toronto, Canada. Nadja originally began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient guitar-based music. In 2005 Buckareff joined in order to make the project more than just a studio endeavour & allow Nadja to perform live.

Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, combining soundscapes, electronics, & atmospheric vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percussion, tempering the cacophany with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.



Nadja website

PLURALS

Plurals is a collection of artists from various bands and solo projects (The Psyche Out Musikland Big Band, Duncan Harrison, Ekca Liena, Me With Others...) who together form an expansive ambient drone / noise group. Multi-layered keyboards, guitars, vocals and more come together in pieces that cover lush ambience, dark and sinister noise and tripped out psychedelics.

"Apparitional voices fade in and out of the psychedelic feedback miasma (electronics? guitar?) lending the bedrock of distant crashes, the foundation of the more ephemeral tones, a mortifying feel to these primarily simple but drenched and saturated gurgles and moans. Alternatingly blissful and morose, Plurals is not exactly singular, but they do satisfy the urge to slowly sink into a blissful wave of underwater white light and disappear forever." 7/10 -- P. Somniferum (30 June, 2009)

Plurals Website

PETRELS

Petrels is London-based musician Oliver Barrett (Bleeding Heart Narrative/Grapefruits). Debut album 'Haeligewielle' was released on Tartaruga Records in April, combining bowed strings, discarded electronics, sporadic percussion and occasional vocals; "frighteningly claustrophobic but exultant in a beautifully understated way... monstrous arvo part-isms and peter wright destructo-drones. and with similar tropes can come across like richard skelton on steroids." (cowsarejustfood).