Arch Garrison + VÄLVĒ + Jack Cheshire (solo)

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0	LONDON: The Betsey Trotwood
P	Wednesday 19th April, 2023
N	7:30pm

Event information

Arch Garrison-
Craig has spent the last 20 years composing, performing and
producing albums; best known for his
chamber/psych/contemporary ensemble North Sea Radio
Orchestra, he has also released music with Arch Garrison and
recently several solo records.
All these projects have Craig’s strong and unique personal sound;
virtuosic nylon-string guitar with a strong emphasis on melody
and chord, be it with strings/wind/percussion/organ (North Sea
Radio Orchestra), the psych-folk of Arch Garrison with it’s wobbly
synths/organ and guitar or his solo material with combines all
these elements.
Craig’s music is described as ‘english’ in sound with reviewers
comparing him to Robert Wyatt, Vaughan-Williams, Cardiacs, Syd
Barrett, Vernon Elliott etc etc.

VÄLVĒ-
What is VÄLVĒ? Folk lullabies re-imagined by the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop. Found-sound collages interrupted by Welsh language orations
and sudden outbursts of fuzz bass. Gleaming synthpop workouts that
collapse into swirling dreamscapes of sax and harp. Tiny sounds opening out
onto the epic. Hi-tech and no-tech, deployed with equal measures of
discipline and abandon. Carefully sculpted disorder. Uncanny geometries of
noise and melody. Dizzy and gleeful and drawn in notebooks. That is VÄLVĒ.