A-SUN AMISSA & LAUREN MASON / I A N / CABIRIA

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WVR HASTINGS AND MINDS EYE PROMOTIONS PRESENT:

A-SUN AMISSA & LAUREN MASON perform WATER SCORES

In Water Scores, Lauren Mason’s dark and experimental poetics respond to A-Sun Amissa’s tide-like currents of guitar, synth, sampled hydrophone, loops, and clarinet. This long-form piece ranges through deep ambience, crashing chaos and ebbing aftermath.

During this new work Mason explores the curses of corporate extraction and pollution on our planet’s water, and listens in, as water speaks back. Mason is best known as bassist with now-defunct existential sludge band Torpor, where she often wove her spoken word pieces through heavy soundscapes. She has been developing her poetic practice for many years and published her first book ‘Rust Canyon’ in 2025.

A-Sun Amissa are a group in a permanent state of metamorphosis, existing on the fringes of some kind of avant-rock, relentlessly pushing forward, shapeshifting and presenting their unique noise in new ways and on their own terms. A sound underpinned and overlaid with drones, moving in and around a diverse chasm of post-rock, melancholic drone, noise, doom and ambient sounds.

This collaboration was born of a mutual love for each other’s creative output, an aligning of the political and the aesthetic.

After a hugely successful debut performance in November 2025 in Glossop for The Black Circle, Water Scores will be taken on the road in 2026. March sees a handful of dates in the UK and plans are in place for UK/EU dates in September.

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WITH SUPPORT FROM:

I A N

I A N's debut album 'Come On Everybody, Let's Do Nothing' was released by Brighton's Human Worth label in the second half of 2025 and was featured in many an 'album of the year' list.

Self-described as "a band that appreciates the peaks and troughs of post-rock as much as the crunch of the riff," IAN's striking debut delivers five dirges that merge earth swallowing riffs with the atmospheres and dynamics of their post-rock heroes, such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, with the bite and visceral heft of Cult Of Luna and Amenra. Thoughtfully captured by Wayne Adams (Petbrick, Big Lad) at his London based Bear Bites Horse studio, IAN craft slowly mounting riffs, with anguished screams, woven with elegant cello playing, field recordings and earthy timbres. Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!, and the band IAN as a whole, is the culmination of 25 years of musical comradeship and the need to find inspiration in films, noise, and the drudgery of British life.

"Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing! masters both emotive post-rock and heavy crunching post-metal with aplomb. It has it all, the reflective moods, the repentant anger and an unburdening of everything that piles up in life. IAN has created something very special and it is another triumphant release for Human Worth for the vinyl collection." ~ Echoes & Dust

"Taking heavy inspiration from the legendary Godspeed You! Black Emperor and post metal kings, Amenra and Cult of Luna, IAN prove that they’re a musical force to be reckoned with." ~ Everything is Noise

CABIRIA

Instrumental and eclectic, Cabiria move effortlessly from post-rock soundscapes, monster doom riffs and stoner groove, through choppy, math puzzles and prog-rock journeyings.

EARPLUGS ADVISED

THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY: EASTBOURNE MUSIC COLLECTIVE