Haiku Salut - Lamp Show

About the Event

Gemma, Louise and Sophie are an instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything trio from the Derbyshire Dales.

Etch and Etch Deep is their new album released July 31st and is the follow up to their critically-acclaimed 2013 debut, Tricolore. The new album sees the Derbyshire trio melt their folk, classical and electronic influences to create a sound that's both inventive and inquisitive, at times more boldly pop, at others startlingly impressionistic. The opening track on the album Bleak And Beautiful (All Things) was called "uniquely stunning" by The Line Of Best Fit, who said: "this tune merges worlds and genres with callous disregard for adhering to the norm. We see techno and minimalist beats coalesce with trad folk melodies; pastoral pop pirouette with carnival-noir accordions, tinkling glocks and ambient synths. It's instrumental post-folk that isn't afraid to tear up the rulebook and begin fresh," while the album itself was hailed as a "vividly coloured sonic canvas" by Popmatters.

This is a very rare *Lamp Show* performance which features an orchestra of charity shop lamps which are programmed to flash, flicker and dance in time to the music.

[Haiku Salut] mesmerized the crowd into silence with their intoxicating blend of delicate electronic textures and collision of curious instruments MOJO

Support comes from Bristol based electronic collective 'Jilk' who fuse a bewildering collage of home-found sounds with the ambient soundscapes of washy synths, insect-like clicks & cuts, violins, vibraphones and trombones. They released a jubilant collaborative single with Haiku Salut called 'Periscopes' earlier this year which received airplay on BBC6music, BBC Radio 3 and Amazing Radio.