Astrid Sonne + Oonagh Haines + 700 Bliss (Moor Mother + DJ Haram)
Friday 07 Mar 2025 from 7pm to 10:30pm
18 € day ticket / 30 € 2-day pass
The first evening of Closer Music puts the voice at the heart of its performances, exploring its many facets.
Astrid Sonne opens the evening with her unique mastery of sonic textures, blending electronics, viola and modulated voice to create subtle and immersive emotional landscapes.
This is followed by Oonagh Haines, whose strange and powerful appearances reinvent the way the voice interacts with sound, for an unprecedented sensory experience.
Finally, the 700 Bliss duo of Moor Mother and DJ Haram bring the evening to a close with an explosive performance in which the voice becomes an instrument, a manifesto and a raw force, set to hard-hitting beats and engaging rhythms.
This opening night promises to plunge audiences into a daring and captivating exploration of vocal expression!
The two started collaborating in 2014 and gathered steam as a blistering live act in Philly's DIY scene, releasing their 2018 debut, Spa 700 on Halcyon Veil/Don Giovanni Records and then signing to Hyperdub for 2022's Nothing To Declare.
DJ Haram and Moor Mother met amidst Philadelphia’s thriving art and music scene, where several disciplines intersect with each other in addition to the local political activist community.
Outside of 700 Bliss, Moor Mother and DJ Haram have stamped their identity on the contemporary club and electronic world with a slew of releases over the past three years.
Part of the Discwoman collective, DJ Haram has been touring steadily across the world, releasing mixes for online platforms such as The Fader and Truants. She hosts Rage Radio on Rinse.FM, and has created several remixes and original solo productions since 2016.
Moor Mother is Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary visual artist, musician and poet Camae Ayewa.
Her expression moves freely within the realm of electronic experiments side by side with melodic curiosity and baroque approaches, and improvised passages are incorporated into precise compositions with intuitive grace.
Her most recent studio album Great Doubt was released January 26 2024 on danish label Escho. Throughout her acclaimed discography (outside of your lifetime 2021 (Escho), Cliodynamics (2019) and Human Lines (2018)) Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours. On Great Doubt this skill is refined, now with the distinct addition of the composer's own vocal in front.
Oonagh began playing Casio keyboards in a street band formed in Dunkirk between 2014 and 2020 called ‘La fanfare Sevezoo’, then played Yamaha keyboards and began singing in a duo called POLUX, with Antonin Carette on double bass. This duo then evolved into another acoustic duo called MEUBELEN, in which Oonagh played harmonium and sang, while Antonin Carette continued to play double bass. At the same time, Oonagh created live music for a theatre of objects show called BESTIOLES, with Marlène Hannon and Gabin Ghibaudo. Oonagh began working on solo music around 2019 and played for the first time in 2021.