Dylan Henner + Neil Quigley + Louary
Entry Requirements: OVER 18s ONLY
Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93. He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album “The Invention of the Human” (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music’s Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there’s so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.
Dylan Henner's new album is a deeply considered choral-laced experimental album of ambient music 'Star Dream FM', and said to be taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.
“Late one evening, I was listening to the radio alone at home. I couldn’t find the station I wanted, so I shifted the dial around for a while. Between frequencies, fading in and out of fidelity, I found a station I’d never heard before. To my amazement, the station was broadcasting my own memories. Memories from when I was seventeen. Some of the most formative and important moments of my life, alive on the air,” Dylan Henner’s self-penned mythology begins. “I called some friends and asked if they could find the same frequency, but no-one did. So, quickly as I could, I stuck a blank tape into my hi-fi and hit record. At some point I heard the jingle and the name of the station: Star Dream FM.”
Though (clearly) fictional, the backdrop to new album Star Dream FM represents a tactile canvas on which the record’s true meaning is painted. It is, through Henner’s now-characteristic employment of ambient-textured synthesis, marimba, digital choir, and processed voice, a study of late adolescence and the experience of youth.
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Neil Quigley is a composer, artist and writer from Ireland who is currently living between Kilkenny, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland.
Neil primarily makes solo work but is also in a duo with the composer Sam Scranton called Physique, a quartet with Bryn Davis, Nick Meryhew and Sam Scranton called The World’s Greatest Drum Programmer and an electroacoustic ensemble called Network Music Glasgow.
His recent solo works centre on a speculative history of an audio research laboratory based in parochial Ireland in the late 20th century. This work is released as an ongoing anthology series entitled the "Kilkenny Electroacoustic Research Laboratory Anthology”, the third volume of which is coming out on May 1st:
His work has been described as “all very synthetic, even sometimes comical” and “very confident” by The Journal of Music, as “also rather beautiful” by Nialler9, and as having a “dry and unpretentious wit” by Eoin Murray of the Quietus/DJ Mag. His recent works have been released on Nyahh Records (Irl), Amalgam Records (US), Miúin (Irl), Parlour Tapes+ (US), Bog Bodies Press (BE), Destiny Trax (US), The Department of Energy (Irl) and Moot Records (Irl).
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Louary is a Scottish-Canadian sound artist and composer who draws on field recordings as compositional material to translate their inner and outer worlds sonically. Blending malleable analog synth, broken textured percussion and ambient vocal melodies, their work explores the intersection of found sound and introspective storytelling influenced by the sonic life around them.
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