When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 11 September 2024
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to be welcoming Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman to Gullivers!

Andrew Wasylyk’s cinematic compositions have been nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award and been awarded BBC 6 Music’s Gideon Coe’s Album of the Year. He has collaborated with former National Poet for Scotland, Liz Lochhead, and written soundtracks for Radio 4. Tommy Perman’s work as a musician and DJ has taken him across the world, with numerous record releases under his own name and with experimental group/arts collective FOUND, alongside visual works at the Sydney Opera House and National Museum of Scotland.

The pair have orbited each other’s worlds for a number of years through audio-visual collaborations spanning record releases, films and sound installations. With their first collaborative album as a duo expected later in the year on Clay Pipe Music, the spirit of the project channels through on new single, Communal Imagination. Wasylyk’s trademark searching piano chords float above Perman’s distinct juddering rhythms, conjuring a Balaeric abstraction of Basil Kirchin. Elsewhere, saxophones and choral vocals climb above fluttering Juno synths in a unifying chorus.

An intimate, transcendental audio visual performance by two artists at the height of their creativity.

Local support comes from Modema. You can find Modema perched between the worlds of club textures and experimental pop, occupying the same space as ML Buch, Jenny Hval and Caroline Polachek. Her time working behind the counter at Piccadilly Records opened a gateway into various realms of electronic music – a rich diet of hyperpop, ambient and electronica feeding into the project’s complex futuristic sound.

Her debut single Running Back was praised by Clash magazine, who referred to the track as ‘a pirouetting piece of synth-pop abstraction’ which ‘sweeps you up in its percussive rush’. The track is a patchwork; fragments of vocals top somnambulistic synth lines and scattered drum patterns. The basslines contain multitudes, fluctuating from gentle melodies to pulsating rhythms. The result is a track as at home in the headphones as on the dancefloor.

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