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We collaborate again with fellow birthday organisation, the boutique Berlin based record label Sonic Pieces. Founder Monique Recknagel has been quietly curating and hand-crafting each release (now numbering fifty) creating a small but strong community of artists, whose ideas explore the border between contemporary classical and avant-garde. Today we present three of them from across Europe.
Sylvain Chauveau has been releasing quiet and minimal compositions on various labels for more than two decades such as FatCat, Sub Rosa, Sonic Pieces, Flau: minimal, quiet compositions for acoustic instruments, electronics, silences, and sometimes voice. Chauveau’s debut album “Le livre noir du capitalisme” has recently be re-released by the label and considered a melancholic milestone – and a precursor of what later would become the Modern Classical genre. His latest album “ultra-minimal” marks his debut for Sonic Pieces and takes the minimal approach even further, centring on reduction and limitation - recorded live at Café Oto, London in March 2022.
Erik K Skodvin grew up in Norway during the early internet days and found sample-based music software during his mid-teens. Since then, he has dedicated his life to music, and the dualities of light vs. shadow, loud vs. silence, improvisation vs. composition. He began early releasing music on small internet labels in the mid to late 90ies before starting his own label Miasmah in 1999. Not long after, he started the project Deaf Center with friend Otto A Totland, moving next to create his debut solo under his Svarte Greiner alias in 2006 and by 2024 he has released around 15 solo albums, countless EP´s and singles as well as many collaborations.
The Gothenburg-resident impressionistic singer-songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Sumie has just completed the recording of her third album. It is the follow-up to Sumie, her selftitled debut, and Lost In Light, both issued by the UK’s totemic Bella Union label, also the home of Father John Misty, John Grant, Mercury Rev and Susanne Sundfør. Sumie's as-yet untitled new album will be issued in 2025. These rare appearances are the first opportunity – anywhere – to hear a selection of her new songs. Expect lyrical obliqueness, and the marriage of understated intensity with filigreed atmospherics.
Further event details: Cafe open. An event for all ages. Pay-What-You-Can entry in advance or on the door (£12 per adult suggestion, children free), subject to availability/capacity.