04/02/2025
Weâre looking forward to an evening full of hypnotic repetitions, expanding soundscapes, a physical, sensory experience!
Once a solo endeavor by Daniel Foggin, now expanded to a fuller ensemble blends traditional instrumentation â creaking strings, funeral drums, somber winds â with thunderous synth work and desolate guitar to craft drone and dirge.
Smoteâs austerity is one that refreshingly escapes the usual trappings of avant-garde music, simply by the force of its elemental vitality and its grounding of negative aural space.
Last Summer, Daniel Foggin, guitarist, writer and chief architect of Smote, uprooted himself from his usual home in Newcastle to live and work in a farmhouse in Kelso, near the Scottish border. âThrough the summer when I was working up there, myself and Rob (Smote drummer) would finish work and go sit by a small river and have a couple of beers in the sun, and it was the best thing everâ he relates âSo I guess the philosophy is that to some people it looks like any other stream, but to us it was supreme happiness. That can be applied to a lot of things in lifeâ. Hence came the title of the fourth Smote album proper, one largely recorded in this same farmhouse - A Grand Stream ( 23.08.24, Rocket Recordings).
https://smote.bandcamp.com/
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Seeking dissolution in reverb and space, Miira is a fierce monument without words, driven by distortion and exhaustion. A drum set working its way forward, big reverb trails and fragments from post-hardcore and doom: Post-rock duo Miira are back with their second album on Nuremberg-based noise label 12pylons Records. »Wellness« wilder, angrier and more disjointed than anything before â and thereby totally concentrated on the moment.
https://miira.bandcamp.com/
