Monday 16 January 2023, 8pm
Extra Life was formed in 2007 as the solo/bandleader vehicle for New York City-based composer, guitarist, and vocalist, Charlie Looker. The band is a highly unusual synthesis of disparate elements, including math/prog rock, dark pop, metal, classical, and ancient liturgical music. Looker was a founding member of NY noise-chamber outfit ZS, frontman of industrial metal band Psalm Zero, and has been a prolific collaborator across the experimental music scene, with credits including Dirty Projectors, Xiu Xiu, John Zorn, Lingua Ignota, Tyondai Braxton, Amanda Palmer, and Mivos Quartet.
Born in Rotherham in the late 1980’s, Karl D’Silva is a multi-instrumentalist who is as comfortable producing and singing a pop song as he is pushing the endurance limits of his respiratory system when playing the alto saxophone. Has performed with Thurston Moore, Damo Suzuki, Okkyung Lee, Ex-Easter Island Head, Rhys Chatham and Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire to name a few.
