A-SUN AMISSA UK // GIZEH RECORDS AGENT: rich@sleepsoundagency.com LINKS: website TERRITORY: WORLDWIDE AVAILABLE: EU - February 2012 + UK - March 2012 + Festivals/Specials throughout 2012 + UK/EU October 2012 |  |
FEBRUARY (EU) (w/ Aidan Baker)
15 - BERLIN (DE) | Westgermany 16 - HAMBURG (DE) | Astra-Stube 17 - BOCHUM (DE) | Christuskirke 18 - HEERLEN (NL) | (h)ear 19 - UTRECHT (NL) | DB's 20 - OFFENBACH (DE) | The Waggon 21 - ESSLINGEN (DE) | Komma Kulture 22 - available 23 - LE MAN (FR) | L'Inventaire 24 - PARIS (FR) | L'Espace B 25 - WANQUETIN (FR) | House Show | A-Sun Amissa is a new project formed out of Leeds, UK by members of Glissando. Built on the foundations of the unknown, a project that encompasses minimalist drones, modern-classical movements and avant-garde tendencies.
Richard Knox (Glissando, The Rustle of the Stars, Of Thread & Mist) & Angela Chan (Glissando, The Rustle of the Stars, Ten, Tomorrow We Sail) began forming the initial ideas in the Autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. Owen Pegg joined the duo just a month later. The trio produce a dense, drone-like atmosphere accompanying evocative, melodic string sections and intertwining guitars. The live show features sections of the recorded output combined with improvisation to unlock new movements and progressions in the music. The subtle, considered textures and the hypnotic interaction between players and instruments provide an intense live performance. The first A-Sun Amissa release was a limited edition 'postcard' EP on Hibernate Recordings in October 2011 with an album 'Desperate in Her Heavy Sleep' due on March 26th on Gizeh Records. PRESS: "a clandestine sound-world of scrapes and creaks that plays like a sonic transcription of an Edgar Allen Poe or H.P. Lovecraft story at its creepiest. Oppressive and disturbing, the EP material plunges deeply into its torture chamber." Textura review of 'Beneath the Heavy Tides' "a pitch dark series of drones that weave and wrap around one another like rival helicoid dragon necks and eventually loom out of the cacophony of industrial percussion (think old pipes, scraped sheet metal and broke-down factory run-amoks…) to become the most prevalent element before succumbing to what sounds like a great slice of sharp steel scything slowly across cold concrete. It’s a gripping, evocative piece of work filled with foreboding and menace." Foxy Digitalis review of 'Beneath the Heavy Tides' |
