presented by Golden Hum, as part of Scotland on Tour
Jemima Thewes:
Experimental, Alternative Folk. Rooted in the ballad genre, cloud hopping tales are told on a bed of playful instrumentation, making an enveloping folksy fusion of dark songs and deep, bright rhythms, evoking highland landscapes, the underworld and transformation. The sound is expanding to include electronic effects, and bigger drums.
GNAC
Whether accompanying TV programmes on John Le Carré, or experienced live beneath stars, nightjars and bats by the Guadalquivir in Seville, GNACʼs intriguing music has always had the power to transport the listener to another time and place. Now, after a fifteen-year absence from the stage, GNAC (will play a solo live show at the Tolbooth.
“This is inescapably music. Chamber music, possibly…with enough post-rock plinks, plonks and percussion to reassure you itʼs not 1602.” – Kitty Empire, pop music critic, The Observer
“Ethereal…” – Tim Burgess
