Memorials (UK) + Yama Warashi (UK) + DJ synth gillis
saturday 11 november 2023
Memorials
Yama Warashi
DJ synth gillis
MEMORIALS
is the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane) and Matthew Simms (Wire,
Better Corners, It Hugs Back, UUUU). As a duo these multi-instrumentalists cover plenty of
ground on stage, juggling instruments in a set up resembling that of a 5-piece band. Their
sound touches on the many points for which they are known, veering from melodic
songwriting to psychedelic noise, free jazz freakouts, tape loops and drones, and then back
again. Their debut double album - Music For Film: Tramps! & Women Against The Bomb - is
out on 12 May 2023 via The state51 Conspiracy label.
https://memorialsmusic.carrd.co
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com
Yama Warashi
Yoshino Shigihara came into 2019 needing a change. The Japanese artist had been based in Bristol ever since co-founding the now defunct Maloya-infuenced raucous psychedelia collective Zun Zun Egui. She then blossomed on her own across an EP and two albums of more meditative but no less territorially transcendent records as Yama Warashi. As in her music, though, Yoshino has always had a sense of wanderlust and it was perhaps no surprise that she’d eventually want to move again – this time to London.
“Moving to London gave me the chance to work with more diverse musicians” Yoshino says. “And I wanted to be here too because of the high creative energy, the diversity of the music and art here and the people who live here.”