Seaming To / Sephine Llo

Event information

Seaming To is a London-born composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Hailing from a family of concert pianists and having studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, she gained early recognition performing with supergroups Homelife (Ninja Tune) and 808 State’s Graham Massey’s Toolshed. Seaming has been described as ‘the voice of the 21st century’ (BBC Radio 1), and an artist who is truly ‘avant-garde’ (Robert Wyatt).

Her experimental ethos and mastery across a variety of instruments have enabled her to collaborate with some of the most respected and radical artists of this decade, particularly in electronic, classical, and experimental genres, including Robert Wyatt, Jean Claude Vannier, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Herbaliser, Punchdrunk Theatre, James Ford (SMD), and Leila (Warp).

Seaming has composed music for notable film and theatre productions and worked with filmmakers and artists such as Victoria Keddie, Cam Archer, and Saodat Ismailova. Her musical compositions have been performed and showcased at prestigious venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall at South Bank, the National Theatre, the Barbican, and MoMA in New York. Seaming’s discography includes Sodaslow EP, Mermaid EP, Seaming (Lumin), Natural Prices EP (Lo Recordings), and her second solo album, Dust Gatherers (OSingAtMe Recordings).

‘An astonishing vocalist of haunting emotional power’ - The Guardian

‘One of the most captivating and unclassifiable performers on the scene’ - Financial Times

‘The voice of the 21st century’ BBC Radio 1

‘Seaming To has an extraordinary presence, and creates songs as delicately nostalgic as an old photo’ - Daily Telegraph

WATCH SEAMING TO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHNTMtSXfbA&list=RDhHNTMtSXfbA&start_radio=1


Sephine Llo is a British composer and multi-instrumentalist, with an unconventional song-writing style that marries 18th Century UK folk roots, neoclassical flourishes and organically created glitchy electronica. A classically trained and multi award-winning artist (with the AMS Neve award for creative recording accolade, among others); and holder of a coveted First-Class Honours degree from the world-renowned Tonmeister course, her sound is an innovative and rich concoction of grave, distorted soundscapes wrapping around her heart-wrenching orchestrations, and uniquely ethereal, often choral-esque vocal harmonies.
 
Her debut EP Flame and first album I, Your Moon, garnered attention from the likes of Wonderland, 405, Clash, BBC3 Late Junction and Radio X ‘Xposure’, performing at Union Chapel and Wilderness Festival. However the loss of her husband Robbie (Autumn Chorus) to cancer when she was pregnant with their first child put an untimely hiatus on her creative career for several years; gratefully now she is back with her latest and most personal account to date, "Diamond Fall", incorporating samples of Robbie's unfinished works.

‘one of the most hypnotic and evocative sound frescoes of recent times...The songs are like mosaics’ - Onda Rock Magazine

‘An album born from a devastating loss, this is arguably the most cathartic and healing release this year. A world to dive into and absorb, this may be fragile, but you can feel the strength at its core.’
Fireworks Magazine

WATCH SEPHINE LLO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVKBDjrVffU