Name: Brìghde Chaimbeul (SCO) + Scions (CAN) | INKONST
Start: 2025-10-16T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Inkonst

$Br\u00ecghde Chaimbeul (SCO) + Scions (CAN) | INKONST$

19-22, on stage 19:30
240/190:-
RIYL: Colin Stetson, Shovel Dance Collective, Joyful Joyful, Ellen Arkbro, Richard Skelton, GY!BE, Lankum, Shye Ben Tzur, Six Organs of Admittance, celtic folk, Anna von Hausswolff, pipe instruments, Caroline Polachek, gaelic folklore, psychedelic drone, minimalism, Coil, Bendik Giske, Cortini buchla vibe, deep listening
Brìghde Chaimbeul and Scions don’t just perform—they conjure. One summons the drone of Gaelic centuries, the other, a spectral score for collapsing futures.
A native Gaelic speaker from the Isle of Skye, Chaimbeul emerged from the world of traditional Scottish music as a kind of prodigy. But her artistic path has always pointed beyond convention. The smallpipes—bellows-blown and mellower than their Highland cousin—become in her hands a drone machine, a meditative conduit, a pulse rather than a melody. She’s developed an utterly distinct way of arranging pipe music, placing texture and breath at the forefront. Her playing doesn’t seek to dazzle with speed, but to engulf—drawing the listener into layered, shifting harmonic spaces that feel more akin to ambient electronics or minimalist classical music than anything typically labeled “folk.”
Her latest work pushes this even further. Drawing on piping traditions from Bulgaria to Cape Breton, she folds global references into the native lilt of Gaelic sound. Collaborators like Colin Stetson, Caroline Polachek, and Aidan O’Rourke stretch the palette, but never disrupt the core. What remains is a quiet intensity, a deeply interior music that moves between the intimate and the immense.
This is music built from breath and earth—ritualistic, restrained, and totally transfixing. A slow bloom of tones that speaks in languages older than genre.

https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/
https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.com/album/sunwise
Support: Scions
Scions open the night with a performance that’s part seance, part sound installation. Made up of members from Joyful Joyful, New Hermitage, and Michael Cloud Duguay’s compositional universe, this Canadian super-ensemble weaves jazz, drone, ambient, and avant-garde into a shimmering post-genre experience. Their debut, ‘To Cry Out In The Wilderness’, grapples with ecological collapse, queer lineage, and sonic healing—an elegy for the present and a hymn for what’s next.
https://scions.bandcamp.com/album/to-cry-out-in-the-wilderness

Included in the AW25 season pass (not yet released)