Laura Cahen/Alexander Carson/David McFarlane
Presented by: Mumbles| 0 | MANCHESTER: The Studio at Gorilla (info) |
|---|---|
| P | Wednesday 26th February, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:30pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Music - General |
Event information
SCRAM is back for its third fundraiser!! We're delighted to be bringing Laura Cahen and Alexander Cahen to Manchester, with support from our city's own David McFarlane. We're using the studio in Gorilla, which is fully accessible and to the left after you enter.
Laura Cahen:
Laura Cahen is a French singer-songwriter. Inspired by the likes of Laurie Anderson, Laura Marling and Adrianne Lenker, her music fuses acoustic and electronic to create emotionally rich, self-reflective sonic landscapes. In the form of poetic love songs, she tackles subjects such as womanhood, ecology, homosexuality and equal rights. Three songs from her second album Une Fille featured in major TV shows and films, including You (Netflix), Tales of the Walking Dead (AMC) and Oscar-nominated I Lost My Body. Cahen’s third studio album, co-produced together with Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) and Josephine Stephenson (Ex:Re, Damon Alban, Arctic Monkeys) will come out on PIAS recordings in early 2025. She will be back on the road with multi-instrumentalist and composer Josephine Stephenson, in a light and stripped-down duo formation, to kick off the album release in 2025.
Alexander Carson:
Alexander Carson is a non-binary singer-songwriter/composer based in Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom. Carson first picked up the piano at age 4 (which is especially difficult considering the weight) and was classically trained, their music reflects this discipline and sounds like a cross between Chopin and Rufus Wainwright. inspired by the mundanity of modernity Carson aims to articulate the absurdity of human existence in their music. This is all presented with a surrealist sense of humour to soften the often melancholic timbre of the music. Essentially their music is trying to set one Oscar Wilde quote to music: "Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"
David McFarlane:
David McFarlane is an electric guitarist, composer and songwriter from Bolton, living and working in Greater Manchester. He will be joined this evening by the expansive and capacious talents of Tom Kitching on fiddle, Benji Marringon-Reeve on bass, and Max Camp on percussion.
