Lankum + Nina Pixel
"Go dig my grave
Both wide and deep
Place a marble stone
At my head and feet“
opens last year's False Lankum with Radie Peat's unsettling voice. The traditional folk song takes on a meditative to apocalyptic dimension in the Dublin band's rendition, focusing on the experience of paralysing sadness. But the rest of Lankum's fourth studio record also has a spirit of liberation and reconciliation - traditional instruments and timeless stories meet droning, serene harmonies. Heartnoize brings the Irish folk foursome to the ARCHA+ space on September 20, 2024.
Large auditorium, tickets for standing.
Strobe lighting effects
Theatrical smoke and haze effects
19:00 Doors open
20:00 Start of the show
22:30 The end of the event
False Lankum (Rough Trade) is a seventy-minute recording conceived as 12 interconnected tracks drawing on both original musical practices and classical songwriting. Acoustic instruments such as fiddle, accordion, guitar and Irish elbow pipes combine with the vocals to create elaborate harmonies and walls of sound. In doing so, the four-piece band capitalizes on its many years on the scene, during which it has experimented with the possibilities of folk, collecting traditional songs from the Irish countryside and playing with their form.
Emotions shared across generations are given contemporary form in Lankum's performance, seamlessly transitioning between moments of deep sorrow and inner peace across the record's surface, together creating music that is traditional and innovative at the same time. False Lankum's album has been nominated for a Mercury Prize and has appeared on numerous best of 2023 lists, even topping The Guardian and The Quietus magazine's best of 2023 lists.
SUPPORT - Nina Pixel
For the evening with Lankum, sound artist Nina Pixel will prepare an embellished version of her double album ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY, which presents Slovak folklore by redefining cultural narratives. She has performed in national galleries in Amsterdam or Prague, in Berlin clubs like ://about blank, Suicide Circus or Tresor, Berghain Kantine, Ausland or in industrial spaces, silos and old factories, forests and swamps. Nina lives in Berlin, where she is building an instrument for exploring expanded states of consciousness through sound.