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Live sets come from Japanese artist Yama Warashi who expertly blends folk dance, free jazz, African music, and psychedelic sounds and sm^sher the moniker of Stroud based artist and producer Imogen Mason who delivers impulsive, visceral tapestries of fractured beats, drone-backed folk song and electronic collage.
The exciting sonic offering of spatial audio creates an all encompassing, immersive experience for audiences, and kicks off a new series of high-quality listening events for Birmingham.
Tickets are Pay What You Can:
£10 (standard) / £13 (pay it forward) / £7 (low income)
You can choose which payment option suits you best – no catch, no questions.
YAMA WARASHI | listen here |
First founded in Bristol circa 2015 and centred on a close-knit coterie of gifted collaborators, the output of Yama Warashi has flourished across multiple releases and an evolving psychedelic dreamworlds.
Relocating to London, and magnetised by the community around Cafe OTO and the Total Refreshment Centre - Yama Warashi further explored the kaleidoscopic influence of Japanese folk dance, free jazz, African music and psychedelia.
Her latest output ‘At My Mother’s Piano’, crafts exquisite improvisational solo piano works interlaced with vivid field recordings, inspired by a trip back to her family home in Ashiya City, Hyōgo, Japan in 2024.
sm^sher | listen here |
sm^sher is the moniker of Stroud based artist and producer Imogen Mason.
Her debut album Pit of Mine was released last year on unruly London label Scrawl, garnering praise from the likes of BBC 6Music, The Quietus, DIY, Stereogum, Electronic Sound and NTS. sm^sher's sonic world is impulsive, visceral and tapestried; weaving meditations on memory, grief, addiction, introversion and hope around industrial soundscape, fractured beats, drone-backed folk song and collage.
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