eniedocc + Maria Somerville + Tarta Relena + Ossia
Saturday 08 Mar 2025 from 6:30pm to 10:30pm
18 € day ticket / 30 € 2-day pass
The second evening of the Closer Music festival, navigates from one stage to another, weaving together musical heritage and avant-garde explorations.
eniedocc opens the evening with a performance that plays on textures and nuances, blending ambient, experimental electronics, noise and nostalgic voices.
Maria Somerville continues the journey with her atmospheric compositions, blending Irish folk and electronic textures for a dreamy, melancholy universe.
Barcelona duo Tarta Relena continue this exploration, reinterpreting traditional Mediterranean songs with a contemporary approach, where vocal polyphony and minimalist arrangements intertwine.
Finally, Ossia takes the audience into a sphere of radical experimentation, with deep bass, deconstructed dub rhythms and daring improvisations, ending the evening on a resolutely avant-garde note.
The evening promises a captivating journey across musical frontiers.
Her self-released 2019 album All My People channeled the wilderness of the Irish landscape through dense, ethereal soundscapes, bare boned percussion, and a heady electronic undertow, interspersed with ghostly vocals that are ever present and all encompassing, like crystalline glints of sunshine peeking through dark stormy clouds.
Since joining 4AD, she has released two covers as part of the label’s 40th anniversary Bills & Aches & Blues compilation, in addition to supporting label-mates Dry Cleaning on their EU tour.
Her enigmatic and enthralling live show comes in both solo and band shape, born of her ties with the dynamic DIY scene that has emerged in Ireland over the past few years. As well as her work as a solo musician, Maria is the host of the much-acclaimed Early Bird Show on NTS Radio.
Projections is Maria’s first official release on 4AD, with more music is expected in 2025.
With little more than their voices and a resolutely contemporary approach to oral repertoires hundreds of years old, Marta Torrella and Helena Ros revisit the most remote corners of Mediterranean musical tradition. The two singers embrace a living, changing perspective on folklore, reshaping it with the help of modern instruments to draw out new meanings, but never denying their origins.
Tarta Relena perform songs from ancient Crete, Corsica, Mallorca and Menorca, recounting the epics of powerful figures such as Hildegard of Bingen, the Virgin Mary and the women of the Paixu tribe in Afghanistan, against a backdrop of subtle electronic pulses and ripples. The two singers sing in Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Latin, English and even Ladino, a Judeo-Spanish language of Sephardic origin.
Experimentation is the core of their identity, and the blend of vocal techniques is their creative engine. In the arrangements, the two very different timbres live together with the synthetic sounds and electronic samples.
This knowledge shapes his unique, futuristic, and dread-soaked aesthetic, as well as his unconventional approach to soundsystem and club music.
Following a series of 12" releases on Berceuse Heroique, Blackest Ever Black, and his own labels, Ossia's latest album, Devils Dance, marks his return to Blackest Ever Black.
Ossia embodies Bristol's underground music scene and has become notorious for bending the rules of genre and club convention. His live performances and DJ sets draw from a contemporary and eclectic mix of influences: grime, techno, jazz, steppers, dub, post-punk, industrial abra sion, and concrète minimalism, and so on. Rattling between moments of suspense and high-powered dancefloor mania, with constant twists and turns.
Her torn and sewn sound loops blend ambient, experimental electronica, nostalgic vocals and noise. The visceral ballads she composes - cold plunges into haunting sounds - are stamped with her voice.