Bluecoat will host a unique evening of special live performances from Adela Mede, Dane Law and Dialect. Three artists exploring the interplay of folk forms, ambient sounds and computer music.
Slovak-Hungarian musician Adela Mede creates mesmerising multi-layered pieces of ambient-folk-pop with voice, technology and field recordings. Singing in three languages (Slovak, Hungarian and English) layering ambient compositions with digital vocal manipulations and minimalistic electronica. Her debut album ‘Szabadság’ is filled with folkloric melodies and described by The Quietus as ‘gorgeous vocals and atmospheric re-imaginations of traditional themes which are never short of ideas or emotional depth.’
Dane Law is a London based producer whose current output explores sound collage and sampling, with semi-algorithmic layered acoustic guitar pieces. His latest record blue forty-six’ is a beautiful arrangement of harp-like notes and melancholic beauty. Described by BBC 6 Music’s Tom Ravenscroft as “A really, really gorgeous record.”
Dialect is the long standing project of Liverpool composer, multi instrumentalist and field recordist, Andrew PM Hunt. His music is a kind of cybernetic minimalism with digitised vocals and hypnotic tape loops. His output has been described by Pitchfork as ‘like a painter or collage artist, not so much writing music as manipulating shapes.’
Check out the artist’s latest releases:
Adela Mede’s – Szabadság
Dane Law’s – blue forty-six
Dialect’s – Advanced Myth
Rave UKraine is the historic event taking place in Liverpool and Kyiv simultaneously on Sunday 7 May. The event is a first of its kind: a party taking place in two cities, at the exact same time, thousands of miles apart – both broadcast via a livestream to make one singular, unifying rave. Hangar 34
will host the UK rave, while Kyiv’s HVLV Bar will be the venue for the Ukrainian one.
Performing in Liverpool are:
- Acclaimed UK synthpop band, Hot Chip (DJ set).
- Eclectic and experimental Ukrainian DJ Mingulitka.
- Pioneering DJ and legendary former Hacienda Club resident DJ Paulette.
- Founder of influential electronic collective UNKLE, DJ James Lavelle.
- DJ, producer, promoter & vocal advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, Jodie Harsh.
- BBC Radio 1’s Future Dance show presenter and DJ, Sarah Story.
- Experimental Ukrainian DJ and producer, Human Margareeta.
The acts announced for the Ukrainian rave at HVLV Bar are:
Petya Cantrust, Jane, Raavel, Pledov and Lostlojik.
Times
Doors: 3.30pm
DJs: from 4pm
Both raves will be live streamed to the other, in partnership with a globally-renowned editorial streaming platform – so the music and dancing can cross borders in a show of unity and solidarity with Ukraine and its culture during the Russian invasion.
Rave UKraine is part of the
EuroFestival, taking place for two weeks in May while Liverpool acts as Host City to Eurovision 2023. Tickets for Rave UKraine are available now via Dice FM / Resident Advisor. All profits from Rave UKraine go to Music Saves UA.
The pioneering event was created by Birmingham Music Archive founder and social entrepreneur Jez Collins, who has worked in tandem with the teams from Open Culture, Music Saves UA, Culture Liverpool, CONTENT Liverpool, HVLV Kyiv and more to bring this historic event to life. Rave UKraine is also bringing together major figures from the music industry such as Caroline Prothero and Rich McGinnis who are supporting, collaborating and advising for the event.
Spring has arrived, and Dance for Plants are BACK with an Easter bank holiday Sunday spectacular! Join us to celebrate the lengthening of days, the blooming of the flowers and the return of warmth to our fair island.
We will be treating you to a full 8 hours of global jams from a range of talented DJs from across Liverpool (TBA). Expect a sparkling array of jazzy sun-soaked grooves, spicy hot disco and italo from all corners of the planet to keep you dancing ’til summer. It will be an absolute treat on QUARRY’s lovely big soundsystem.
Food will also be on offer from Guac and Roll, purveyors of some of the finest vegan food in the UK, let alone Liverpool! As usual, this is a completely not-for-profit event, and every ticket sold will plant a tree through our friends at The Future Forest Company. You will even get a certificate with a unique what3words code and a picture of your tree! All remaining proceeds will be donated to Thrive, a UK-based charity that uses gardening and horticulture to improve the lives of disadvantaged people around the UK.
We can’t wait to see all your beautiful smiling faces there!
The Jockey Club Live are delighted to announce Pete Tong’s Ibiza Classics will be making their debut at Aintree Racecourse in June.
A brand-new show for 2023, the evening will expertly collide the worlds of classical and club with stunningly reimagined versions of house tracks including Fat Boy Slim “Right Here Right Now”, The Chemical Brothers “Galvanise”, Moloko “Sing It Back”, Seal “Killer”, Faithless “Insomnia” and many, many more.
Important Info: Gates 4.15pm | First Race 6.15pm | Concert from 8.55pm
Iconic girl group Sugababes are headlining Aintree Racecourse this summer. The trio will perform all of their biggest hits including: Freak Like Me, Round Round, Push the Button, About You Now and more.
One of the most successful British bands of the 21st century, Sugababes clocked up six Number One singles, multiple multi-platinum albums and became one of the most spectacular stories of the modern pop era.
Fast forward two decades, the original line up of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy arrived back in full force becoming the talk of the summer festivals last year, including having to shut down their field at Glastonbury due to demand.
Important Info: Gates 4.15pm | First Race 6.15pm | Concert from 8.55pm
The best of Eurovision like you’ve never heard before. Get ready for a music event like no other, as St George’s Hall Charitable Trust team up with organist, Lee Ward, to present the best of Eurovision as never heard before, on the 7,737 piped Willis Organ of St George’s Hall!
About Lee Ward
Liverpool-born Lee Ward is well known as an organist throughout the country and beyond, performing in many town halls and cathedrals nationwide.
Also a music lecturer at the University of Liverpool, Lee loves playing the magnificent organ at St George’s Hall and is excited to present a programme which he has chosen to best show off the organ and the brilliant variety of Eurovision music over the years.
Come along and enjoy the monthly concert by the Liverpool based Savoy Jazzmen. Join in the carnival atmosphere and take part in the umbrella parade. Relax to a repertoire that’s a mixture of heavily spiced classical and revivalist jazz.
For more information visit https://palmhouse.org.uk/events/jazz4april/
Through mesmerising song and archive film footage, Shirley J. Thompson’s opera Women of the Windrush portrays inspirational narratives from the lives of women who travelled to the UK from the West Indies between the 1940s and the 1970s, when persons from those countries were invited by the British government to assist in the rebuilding of post-war Britain.
Women of the Windrush breaks the convention of weak characters and femme fatales prevalent in the operatic canon by conceptualising an artistic work about the so-called Windrush generation with strong female roles.
Compelling stories from a cricketer’s wife, a student nurse, a concert pianist and a new bride who all relate their experiences of arriving and settling in England.
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A kaleidoscope of musical colours.
From La Folia, the original baroque smash hit, to the spiritual music of Julius Eastman, all the way to David Lang’s hot, heavy and hard-hitting Killer – this show takes in a dizzying range of music.
Scottish star guitarist Sean Shibe joins forces with Manchester Collective for the first time in an artistic meeting of minds that is long overdue. The set is an ever-changing musical melting pot, demonstrating the extraordinary range of these boundary-breaking performers.
At the heart of the programme are a pair of new works written for Sean and the Collective. British artist Emily Hall writes music that inhabits the spaces between genres – classical, electronic and folk traditions are absorbed and reimagined to create work that is intimate, touching and altogether new. New York composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Kelly Moran also walks an artistic tightrope, poised somewhere between the experimental, the wild and the human.
With Sean performing on electric and acoustic guitars alongside an all-star string quartet lineup, this show will transport you to unexpected sound worlds and strange new places.
This concert will last approximately 1 hour 50 minutes (including interval).
Tickets: Pay What You Feel £10 or £20 + booking fee.
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Artificial intelligence (AI), like in the rest of our lives, can now be found in every corner of the music industry. From analysing music listening behaviours to creating personalised playlists, to evaluating which songs are most likely to be popular with music consumers, it is everywhere.
But what if machines could also write the music that you listen to? In this experimental concert, we will present a set of original pieces created by a team of composers, computer scientists and researchers using AI algorithms that are now being used across the world to create music with machines. These algorithms analyse large corpora of music written by humans and learn to compose new music in different music styles. We will explore how the choice of these corpora and the intervention of humans in the AI composition process affect the music that machines create and the implications it has in terms of authorship and copyright.
Programme: to be decided by the machine! Follow its progress on the Applied Music Research Lab website.
This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.
Part of the Lunchtime Concert Series and Musical Futures.
