VÄLVĒ, Arch Garrison and Crayola Lectern

Presented by: Lost Property

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0	BRIGHTON: The Rose Hill
P	Friday 21st April, 2023
N	7:00pm

Event information

Having cut her teeth in the cult bands Chrome Hoof and Knifeworld, Chlöe Herington is now forging her own sound world under the monikor VÄLVĒ. The music can take many forms: "...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."
https://valvemusic.bandcamp.com
https://www.valve.cloud

Arch Garrison is the duo of Craig Fortnam (North Sea Radio Orchestra) on guitar and James Larcombe (Stars in Battledress, William D Drake, NRSO) on organ and synth. Fortnam's approach to singing and songwriting is pastoral, low-key but deceptively complex - take a listen for yourself on the first two albums 'King of the Down' and 'I Will Be A Pilgrim', available on bandcamp:
https://archgarrison1.bandcamp.com
https://www.archgarrison.co.uk

Their first gig in over three years, Crayola Lectern will on this occasion be playing as a duo, with Mr Crayola himself Chris Anderson on 'tragi-piano' and Al Strachan on cornet, synth and percussion. The sounds they make have been described as 'what psychedelic music would have sounded like had the Edwardians invented it,' and along with this there is a sure nod to the Canterbury scene of Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt, mixed in with the high melodrama of early cinema accompaniment.
https://crayolalectern.bandcamp.com
https://www.crayolalectern.com
https://thequietus.com/articles/11981-crayola-lectern-the-fall-and-rise-of-review