Friday 13 June 2025, 7.30pm
To celebrate the release of their record ‘In Session’ on Sagome, Exotic Sin and Julian Sartorius perform live for the first time ever. Plus a live set from Ancient Psychic Triple Hyper Octopus trio, fresh off the release of their debut album, and a DJ set from label Infinite Expanse’s curator, Tom Gibbs.
Kenichi Iwasa and Naima Nefertari form the duo Exotic Sin. Improvisation and live recording are at the core of their collaborative process, integrating playful contrasts and cohesions of natural, digital and electroacoustic sounds. The duo collide piano, trumpet, flutes, percussion and two of Don Cherry's "zen saxophones" (woodwinds handmade by attaching reed mouthpieces to plastic plumbing parts), with loops, live sampling, and anachronistic '90s keyboards. The duo first came together in 2018 for a performance celebrating the art and music of Naima's grandparents, Moki and Don Cherry, before continuing as an independent unit that still incorporates some of the Cherrys' instruments as well as their synergetic integration of improvised music with visual art.
Drummer, percussionist and artist Julian Sartorius forms sounds into previously unseen shapes. His precise and multi-layered rhythmical patterns are keen excursions into the hidden tones of found objects and prepared instruments, bridging the gap between organic timbres and the vocabulary of (experimental) electronic music. Julian Sartorius has released numerous solo albums, create audiovisual art works, collaborates with musicians, writers and artists and performs live in intimate venues and on festival stages. In recent years, Julian Sartorius has collaborated with numerous musicians including Matthew Herbert, Sophie Hunger, Sylvie Courvoisier, Alabaster DePlume, Gyda Valtysdottir, Shahzad Ismaily, Kae Tempest and James Zoo.
www.juliansartorius.com
https://juliansartorius.bandcamp.com/
Ancient Psychic Triple Hyper Octopus is a new trio uniting Alex Bonney (Leverton Fox, Brass Mask), Will Glaser (Sly and the Family Drone, World Sanguine Report) and Isambard Khroustaliov (Icarus, Fiium Shaarrk). ‘Put Emojis On My Grave’ will be their debut album, set for release on the 23rd May 2025.
The trio’s music has been described as “devotional music; music which seeks solace in the myths, mysticism and prophecies of a ‘high dimensional’ AI ‘renaissance', whilst eschewing the hyperreal aesthetics and stereotypical narratives of platform capitalism’s endless franchising and repackaging … (the) music is no longer ‘composed’ in the tradition that informed the rise of both classical ‘Art Music’ and ‘Pop Music’ of the 20th century, but, adopting the language of AI’s deep learning failures and glitches, (the) music is ‘hallucinated’ via successive iterations of ‘emergent improvisation’
https://www.not-applicable.org/?p=3064
Infinite Expanse is a label run by London-based sound archivist and researcher Tom Gibbs. It began in 2017 as a YouTube channel focused on sharing music not otherwise available online, gradually evolving toward deeper explorations of the independent cassette scenes of the 1980s and ’90s. In 2022, the project expanded into the physical realm with a first-time reissue of Zahrada, a 1992 album by Czech musician Jaroslav Kořán.
Since then, Infinite Expanse has released a range of cassette and vinyl editions – spanning South-West London post-punk, Memphis psych rock, Prague experimental music, West German ambient works, French DIY electronics, and an unreleased Polish theatre soundtrack. Recent output has expanded to include contemporary artists, with the label’s first new recording arriving in 2024 via Gothenburg’s Johannes Björk.
https://infiniteexpanse.bandcamp.com/
