Wednesday 15 December 2021, 8pm
Excellent double-bill with Luke Owen's Death Is Not The End project and Princess Diana of Wales, aka London based Australian musician, Laila Sakini!
Death Is Not The End is Luke Owen. Comprising an NTS radio show and record label, DINTE seeks to unearth and bring light to archival music and field recordings with a focus on early gospel, global folk music, soundsystem tapes and various other audio curios. Death Is Not The End's two-volume compilation release of advertisements taken from London pirate radio broadcasts in the mid 80s to early 90s were covered by The Guardian & the New Yorker, and together with multiple pirate radio-focussed mixtapes (scanning and spanning the airwaves of 80s-00s Bristol, and contemporary pirate broadcasting in New York) constitute a keen area of interest.
London based Australian musician Laila Sakini steps out from behind the disguise of Princess Diana of Wales, A Colourful Storm’s newest and most curiously cloaked project. Someone, no one, a notion, a feeling…
On Princess Diana Of Wales Sakini finds a contemplative and opaque downstroke, her forlorn vocals convected via radiant webs of reverb in an ephemeral style of songcraft that drifts effortlessly, like the sound of someone coming to terms with themselves.
Ponderous instrumentation, including heavy low-tuned guitar, soft clicking percussion, ad-lib multilayered vocals and found sounds. Twisting, hyperventilating harmonica, sub-bass and breakbeats of swollen soundsystem intensity and stretched and manipulated high-register vocals.
Diana offers clues but no simple answers.
"An enigma with a purpose" - The Wire Magazine, 2021
"Princess Diana of Wales resonates with these strange twilight times above perhaps anything else we’ve listened to this year." - Boomkat, 2021
“With each listen, there's another line, another noise, that jumps out from Sakini's sonic coral reef, a reef that feels simultaneously uplifting and deeply distressing.“ - Resident Advisor, 2022.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
