A strange new a capella work from Bristol-based sound artist Yas Clarke, The Thicket is an intricate, rhythmic and melodic text score, composed for four voices. Sometimes narrative, sometimes abstract & non-verbal - this text is an arcane expression of the human relationship with its environment.

Each singer is conducted by a distinct in-ear score, a process which allows for detailed structuring of the four-part score; phrases, words and syllables layered into elaborate rhythms and harmonies otherwise impossible to perform. The result is mesmerising & uncanny, an experience which transports & transfixes.

"It's not like much else I've heard... it's really knocked me sideways, in a good way." Jen Allen, BBC Radio 3, Late Junction

"A meditation on humans & our place on Earth, conjuring both a sense of home & another world... Clarke reminds us that the barriers between real & imagined, natural & inorganic, aren't so strict." Vanessa Ague, The Quietus

"Wow, this piece is really great... it's really fantastic" Oren Ambarchi

“a strange mixture of beauty & austerity that I have not come across before or since” Harry Burgess, Adult Jazz