Ian William Craig - London show announced!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
Friday 1 May
EartH Kitchen, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH
7.30pm | £12 | https://link.dice.fm/D0BQfqRMN3

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG moves you over shifting tectonic plates of operatic improvisations, fields of tape hiss, haunting pastoral melodies and billowing clouds of becoming. Drawing out analogies between his dual practices of music and print-making, Ian’s work is deeply informed by a narrative of impermanence, “notions of life as an act of becoming, and beauty within degradation and deterioration – these have been kernels that I’ve been really drawn to … When I listen back to my compositions and I look at the art I create, there’s some kind of aesthetic drive or core that I seem to constantly orbit…these becoming forms and notions of decay and circling.” Blending choral, ambient and noise influences together into this customised array of tape decks, Craig focuses on a combination of classical vocal training and process-based uncertainty, His music delivers an elegant balance between theatrical and ambient sentiments, by combining the essence of a choral album from Angel Records or Deutsche Grammophon with the distorted spontaneity of experimental home-recording and the likes of Fennesz or William Basinski.

Signing to FatCat’s post-classical imprint 130701 in 2016, Ian’s debut album for the label, ‘Centres’, was released to widespread critical acclaim, and was followed by his debut UK/European tour. The album made numerous end of year lists, and in 2017 was followed by another EU tour and the release of the ‘Slow Vessels’ EP, a collection of six tracks from ‘Centres’ re-recorded as acoustic versions. 2018 saw the release of ‘Thresholder’ a brilliant collection of material collected together to form a between-albums release. Craig’s new album ‘Red Sun Through Smoke’ is due out this March. Forged from an intense, bewildering slew of emotions, the album is embedded with incredible beauty, sadness and depth. ‘Red Sun Through Smoke’ is a profoundly moving album, a standout record in a prolific body of work that shows no sign of faltering.
https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/



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