Following the smouldering 'Burning of the Clavie' earlier this year, we bring the ancient midwinter fire ritual back to Todmorden this January.
The ceremony from pre-Christian times still marks the real New Year for some dedicated followers, before the calendars changed in the 1700s, and this special gathering invokes the return of the sun in the depths of winter.
Our line up this year includes poets, singers and musicians producing sounds from folk, through to drone connecting hardware, spoken word and instruments such as harp, clarinet and tape. With more to be announced, artists include Aisha Vaughan, Grahl (Laurel Morgan), Zaffar Kunial, Mochyn Daer, Mod Cog (dbh), Spaceship Mark, Outland Sea, and felx as well as a hybrid DJ set of records and hardware by adam
The tone will be horizontal and calm, with our glowing embers and warm sounds blending to create a cosy atmosphere on a deep midwinter's day.
Aisha Vaughan
https://aishavaughan.bandcamp.com/album/the-gate
https://www.instagram.com/aisha__vaughan/
Aisha is an experimental artist whose music captures the landscapes, lore and languages of her native Wales. Living in the Elan Valley at the headwaters of the River Wye, she lives and works among moss-covered forests, open fields and running waters, using samples, field recordings, live harp and her own angelic voice to create delicate compositions as soothing as they are ethereal.
Grahl
https://resonancerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-light
Friend of resonance, Laurel Morgan takes a new direction by accompanying her light singing with her own music creating a new movement and space. With electronics and effects she weaves her light language, sonic spell to captivate the audience and take them to enchanted realms.
Outland Sea
https://samepagerecords.bandcamp.com/album/1
Is an ambient drone, experiment combining lap steel guitar, synthesis, found sounds, and folk woodwind.
Shifting, generative rivulets furrow igneous dronescapes into shrouds of distorted particulate.
Zaffar Kunial
https://www.instagram.com/zaffarkunial/
Following his performance at Harmonicon with Matthew Shaw (Stone Club), local Hebden Bridge poet Zaff brings spoken word imagery and magic to the flowing tones and drones. He is the author of collections such as Us and England's Green, and is known for his poems that explore themes of identity, language, heritage and local landscapes.
Mochyn Daer
https://www.instagram.com/mochyndaer/
https://soundcloud.com/mochyn_daer/mochyn-daer-live-at-cosmic-render
Weaving together soundscapes of folk, ambient, found sound, drone, experimental, swampy bass and breakbeat, Welsh futurist Jony Lewis specialises in immersive live sets featuring gongs, bowls, bells, chimes and rocks, voice, clarinet, shruti, modular hardware and field recordings.
Organic and otherworldly sound rituals merge Welsh folk songs and stories with a wide variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, incantations and effects.
Mod Cog (dbh)
https://soundcloud.com/modcog
Todmorden based, Mod Cog (dbh) goes electronic with a variety analogue tape, synths, samplers and effects to make some ultraterrestrial bleeps, bloops, bass and beats.
Improvised electronic drones, melodic grooves and deep subspace echoes make for a trippy journey to multi-dimensional space.
Spaceship Mark
https://www.instagram.com/spaceshipmark
Multi-instrumentalist Mark S. Williamson, musician, sound artist and educator based in Todmorden, creates an astonishingly wide soundscape from electronic to acoustic and orchestral instruments.
His work is often made in response to his environment, working on location, combining field recordings with electronic and acoustic instrumentation, usually recorded outside, amid the landscape and weather, and performs live with an amazing set of machines and devices.
adam
https://www.instagram.com/adam__res
adam creates a hybrid piece between records with an analogue synthesis of drone, guitar and tape reflecting a gathering of warmth and embers.
Felix
Manchester based musician and dj plays a set laden with drone and samples.
https://ag-r0n.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_felixp99/
Jamie House (lighting)
Jamie's unique lighting and projections will be dousing the space!
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The event will run from 2pm till 10pm! So please bring something snug, blankets, sleeping bags anything to get cosy and comfortable to lie upon. Stay hydrated.
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