Quinie

Quinie, aka Josie Vallely, is based in Glasgow. She sings primarily unaccompanied in Scots, with a style inspired by the traditions of Scottish Traveller singers, and in particular Lizzie Higgins (1929-1993). Inspired by Higgins, Quinie’s experiments with composition and vocal techniques create a dialogue between pipe music and voice. Her work evokes a strong sense of place rooted in an imagined Scotland, and explores relationships with land and language.

Quinie's first eponymous album was released on casette By GLARC in 2017, Followed by Buckie Prins, in collaboration with accompanied by Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Oliver Pit and Neil McDermott. They bring a musicality to the tracks that combines minimalist tension, foundations of drone, stabbing atonal noise, and choppy medieval repetition.

https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/buckie-prins

Horse Whisperer

Horse Whisperer, otherwise known as Max Syed-Tollan, is a multi-disciplinary artist from the Scottish border region of Galloway. He released his debut album 'Fifth Season' on GLARC in 2016 and will follow that in 2019 with a new work called ‘Planctae’, a cycle of 11 short movements for woodwind ensemble. For this show Horse Whisperer will perform a series of improvisations responding to material from this forthcoming release.
https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-season

Luki

LUKI is the music project of singer and pianist Lucy Duncan and producer Misha Rivers. Using voice, piano, synths and electronics, they create atmospheric pop that blends the everyday and the imaginary with theatrical and emotive force. Indebted to folk, post-punk, art pop and the odd edges of musical theatre, their music is immersive, narrative driven and direct. Following the release of ‘Wisps’ on Glasgow’s label GLARC in 2018, LUKI released a single ‘The Parts’ on lathe-cut label Sonido Polifonico. Their debut EP ‘Half True’ was self released recently too.
https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/wisps

Orxid

Orxid is, Jessica Hickie-Kallenbach (Still House Plants), is triumphant when barking, flirting with misdirection, with weak knees, malfunctioning. All brushed up on when just-heard through bedroom doors.

In H-K's longstanding project Still House Plants (alongside David Walker Kennedy and Finlay Clark), ambiguous vocal intimacies* guide minimal song structures, and build upon melodic hierarchies of guitars, pianos, drums, and falling bodies. Still House Plants released their album 'Long Play' in 2018 on Bison Records, and are currently working towards their February residency at Cafe Oto.