Daylight Music: EFG London Jazz Festival - Deaf Center, Erik K Skodvin + Sumie with Mazy Day
Sat 16 Nov 2024 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
St John's Leytonstone, E11 1HH
Description
Doors 11.50am, Sumie at 12.05, Erik K Skodvin at 12.45, Deaf Center 13.25 approx
If you can't make it you can still watch Saturday’s live stream on our youtube channel: youtube.com/live/aUteRv1rVTg?si=8nkT2GpaoprxPChS
Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over fifteen years, become an
important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful
mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound,
alongside delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic
venues.
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.
Joining us again this week, joining the dots between the other performers on the organ is Mazy Day - their debut album 'Go Swish' (simmering organ improvisations and disembodied pop) is about to be released on Kit Records.
Deaf Center comprises Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Erik K. Skodvin and pianist Otto A. Totland, who operate at the axis of ambient, contemporary classical and drone music. Old school friends, they both grew up in a small village in southern Norway, each having a history of music-experimentation during the early internet days. At the start of the 2000´s they finally decided to collaborate. Deaf Center has released several recordings through the last 20 years, including albums Pale Ravine (2005), Owl Splinters (2011) and most recently Low Distance (2019) on Sonic Pieces. In their music the importance is placed on timelessness, friendship and the combination of warm human connection with otherworldly abstractions.
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, 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.
Please note that the previously advertised artists for this event have changed due to unforeseen circumstances
“Daylight Music offers a chance to just drop in, listen to some wonderful music and soak up the venue’s lovely atmosphere.” - Time Out, 101 things to do in London
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.
Location
St John's Leytonstone, E11 1HH