Description

Thomas Dalzell/Lives as omens cut his teeth as a singer/synth player in various post punk bands, around Edinburgh in the late 1970s/early 80s. He's also played saxophone in a diverse range of ensembles, from 1950s style r&b, jazz and Scottish traditional fusion.

He's been performing as Lives as omens since 2010 and occasionally as jazzhandstemazepamman. He released his debut solo album Chymical Garden of Delights (on Komponist) in 2021. A collection of stories, some ancient, some more recent, recorded between 2010 and 2020.

He's currently recording a new album, produced by John Cavanagh, which features Gayle Brogan on vocals and John Cavanagh on VCS 3 amongst others.

Phosphene

Phosphene is the electronic/acoustic music project created by Glasgow-based John Cavanagh, after four years as a member of the duo Electroscope. Phosphene has released three full-length albums, featuring collaborations with Lol Coxhill, Raymond McDonald and John McKeown (1990s/Yummy Fur), amongst others. John is also a sometime radio presenter, having presented everything from experimental rock on BBC Radio 1, opera on Radio 3, and documentaries for the BBC's World Service. He also hosts a weekly music show on Radio Six International, and has written a book on the Pink Floyd album, 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' as part of a series on classic albums published by Continuum in 2003.

John has recently released a lathe cut on Sonido Polifonico.

Pefkin

Gayle Brogan performs solo under the name Pefkin, creating slowly-unfolding, ritualistic hymnals that draw heavily on the landscape and natural world, using violin, electronics, voice and field recordings. She has released albums internationally on labels such as Morc, Wild Silence, Digitalis and Sonido Polifonico. She is also one half of innovative folk duo Burd Ellen, a third of psychedelic electric folk trio Meadowsilver, and has collaborated with cult Irish singer-songwriter Alison O'Donnell, modular synth composer Jonathan Sharp, and Irish collective United Bible Studies. Gayle has performed across the UK and Europe, including Fano Free Folk Festival in Denmark as well as Cambridge, Sidmouth, Leigh and Moseley Folk Festivals in recent years. She co-promotes a highly respected series of sell-out gigs in a Tudor museum in Sheffield.
Pefkin emerged after the retro-futuristic psych / electronic duo Electroscope went into hibernation in 2000. Her first solo show was supporting Pram in spring of that year. Influenced by Nico, Hood, Movietone and Syd Barrett, she created a fragmentary, more stripped-down version of Electroscope?s bedroom psychedelia but retreated from live performance in 2001. Pefkin has released over 10 albums on labels such as Morc, Wild Silence, Reverb Worship, Digitalis, Pseudoarcana and Siren Wire as well as several sold-out lathe cuts on Sonido Polifonico. Pefkin returned to live performance in 2013 and has played across the UK and Europe, including Fano Free Folk Festival and Woolf II in 2019.

Her sound comprises a mesmerising and enigmatic layering of vocals, violin, analogue synth, zither, psaltery, harp, guitar, found objects and field recordings. She records at home in Sheffield.

Pefkin?s music has received comparisons to Coil, Popul Vuh and Nico.

Spooked-out twilight listening that is both unsettling and compelling, drawing you into a private world. (Ed Pinsent / Sound Projector)

Something akin to what it must have been like hearing Nico's 'Marble Index' when it was released; alien yet curiously familiar, beautiful yet stark, hypnotic yet troubling. (Grey Malkin / Active Listener)

Description

Norton Lees Lane,

Sheffield,

South Yorkshire,

England,

S8 9BE.