A-Sun Amissa & Lauren Mason plus support from Leopard Hunters

Event Information

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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Leopard Hunters is a Sheffield-based experimental, alt-folk project. They'll be performing an ambient soundscape piece incorporating a reworking of a traditional folktale. For more info and streaming please see their webpage.
https://www.threegalleys.com/leopard-hunters