Lucas Abela:
“Lucas is just captivating. It’s incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs” – ZACH HILL. – Death Grips.
“One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube” – David Rees – The New York Times.
Maverick improviser; Lucas ’Granpa’ Abela’s (formerly Justice Yeldham) singular journey performing on shards of broken glass is the stuff of legend. For over twenty years now they have relentlessly toured the globe, the glass evolving over that time from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an incredibly versatile instrument producing organic outsider electronica. Played somewhat like a reed instrument, Abela vibrates the shards edge with their lips, producing both audio signal and control voltages. These feed a complex modular patch of parallel chains where the performance modulates itself to give the instrument the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment that together forms dense layers of anomalous music.
On 31st of October, Lucas Abela & Zach Hill released a collaborative album on Warp Records, “Bag of Max Bag of Cass”.
https://warp.net/bag-of-max-bag-of-cass
https://granpa.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/granpa_abela/
Matthew Taggart & Lara Dorling:
A new collaboration between Matthew Taggart (yumyab, Never Again, S/M Noise) and Lara Dorling, a body-based improviser. Contact mics, channelled sound and movement interplay.
https://www.instagram.com/yumyab
https://www.instagram.com/laradorling
