IAN WILLIAM CRAIG

0	LONDON : Upset the Rhythm @ OSLO
P	Monday 8th May, 2017
N	7:30pm

LONDON : Upset the Rhythm @ OSLO

Monday 8th May, 2017

7:30pm

Event information

Upset The Rhythm presents…

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG
Monday 8 May
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney, E8 1LL
7.30pm | £10 |

IAN WILLIAM CRAIG is a sound artist, award-winning printmaker, classically-trained vocalist, writer, photographer, composer and performer, who currently resides in Vancouver. His visual and sonic research has been exhibited and published internationally, and he has participated in various residencies and performances across his native Canada and beyond.

Drawing out analogies between his dual practices of music and print-making, Ian's work is deeply informed by a narrative of impermanence, "notions of life as an act of becoming, and beauty within degradation and deterioration”. Blending choral, ambient and noise influences together into this customised array of tape decks, Craig moves you over shifting tectonic plates of operatic improvisations, fields of tape hiss and haunting pastoral melodies. Running on a combination of classical vocal training and process-based uncertainty, his music delivers an elegant balance between theatrical and ambient sentiments, by combining the essence of a choral album from Angel Records or Deutsche Grammophon with the distorted spontaneity of experimental home-recording and the likes of Fennesz or William Basinski.

After moving to Vancouver following his studies, Ian began creating albums from his new home. His first recordings were digitally self-released via Bandcamp between 2011 and 2013. Stunningly textured and vaporous, the majority of these releases are largely voiceless. It was when Craig turned to his background in musical theatre, avant-classical orchestration and the choral tradition for A Forgetting Place (2013) and his first two physical releases, A Turn of Breath (2014) and Cradle for the Wanting (2015), where the real breakthrough would be made, with Ian's voice rising firmly to the fore. Both latter albums were issued by the excellent Californian label Recital Program to widespread critical acclaim, his latest album ‘Centres’ came out last year through FatCat’s 130701 imprint (Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O’Halloran, Jóhann Jóhannsson, etc).

https://ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com/