Alabaster dePlume builds love out of circular melodies and air as light as a feather. His message is simple and disarming: “Don’t forget you’re precious.”
Light against dark, wood against wire, minimal yet intricate… Simon Popp’s solo performance makes use of rhythms as storytelling mechanisms.
Teresa Allgaier presents Sophia Jani’s composition ‘Six Pieces for Solo Violin’, challenging the notion of simplicity and weaving a tapestry of gentle consonance and contemplation.
Big voyage, very intimate setting: a rare chance!
Close your eyes… feel the room expand.
L’Éclair will bring this high-tension night to its peak with rhythm alchemy born of Swiss electro/acoustic instinct — groove and dynamics locking bodies and minds in step.
But first, the psychedelic cumbia of Cosmica Bandida, the heavy fuzz of Lucidvox, the polyrhythms of Devon Rexi, and the queer power-pop house of Baby Berserk.
ZIRKA goes full endorphin mode—serving a long, delicious lineup, that overflows in every room…
Head on a sidequest and meet Giortensia’s dadaist, B-movie inspired audiovidual project, or the high-energy performance of Rumpeln, made of video cut-ups and noise experiments.
Gus Fairbairn, aka Alabaster DePlume, has a pocketful of phrases that he uses all the time whether he’s walking down the street or holding court with musicians and an audience. For a long time the Mancunian would tell anyone who’d listen that they were doing very well. More recently, it’s another phrase which has a similar effect and which belies his unwavering commitment to personal vulnerability and collective politics: “Don’t forget you’re precious.”
A process that is people-first not product-first ensures that the music is unique; often gem-like. Alabaster DePlume’s songs are built on sonorous circular melodies and luminous tones that transmit calmness and generosity in warm waves – unless they’re raging against complacency and the everyday inhumanity of end times capitalism. Most importantly, he brings a valuable transparency to his work. “This is what I’m really doing,” he says. “I want to talk about why I’m doing this, and how I’m doing this.”
