About this Event
An amazing double bill of two remarkable artists at the cutting edge of music and sound.
This November Full of Noises will welcome Lonnie Holley and Gwenifer Raymond to the intimate surroundings of Piel View House.
Lonnie Holley
Since 1979, Lonnie Holley has devoted his life to the practice of improvisational creativity. His art and music are born out of struggle and hardship, but perhaps more importantly, out of a furious curiosity and biological necessity.
That drive manifests in drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, performance, music, and filmmaking.
His art has been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the world, and is in the collections of major museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The High Museum of Art; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Smithsonian American Art Museum; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Tate Modern, and many others.
Holley has released seven critically acclaimed albums––Just Before Music, 2012; Keeping a Record of It, 2013; MITH, 2018; National Freedom, 2020; Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection (with Matthew E. White), 2021; Oh Me Oh My, produced by Jacknife Lee, which includes collaborations with Bon Iver, Michael Stipe (REM), Moor Mother, Sharon Van Etten, and Rokia Koné; and Tonky, dropping in March of 2025.
His albums have been named in the top albums of the year by The Washington Post, Newsweek, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, among many other publications. MITH was named one of the best albums of the decade by The New Yorker.
Lonnie has toured extensively throughout the United States and the Americas, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, sharing stages with Bon Iver, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Bill Callahan, Tinariwen, Daniel Lanois, and others.
(Lonnie image above by David Raccuglia)
https://www.lonnieholley.com
Gwenifer Raymond
Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond, is set to announce her third studio album, to be released September 5th on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. As celestial drones and mutant folk meet a frenetic blues that bends and twists like space-time, on her new album Raymond finds herself evoking the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Raymond, via the circuitous trans-Atlantic journey of her demo - signed to San Francisco’s Tompkins Square Records in 2017, with who she released her first two albums. Her first proper gig was at the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose Festival in Maryland, where she hung with heroes such as Glenn Jones, Marisa Anderson, Daniel Bachman and Peter Walker and was presented by Henry Kaiser with a 1880s Joseph Bohmann guitar which she feels may be possessed by some fingerpicking demon.
The Guardian has described her as a “profound talent” whilst The Observer praised her “awe-inspiring technique and intense musicality”, and Uncut Magazine has championed her “fast-developing talents as a composer of eerie menace.” She has since toured Europe, the US and Canada with the likes of Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, The Handsome Family, Lankum, Charlie Parr, Richard Dawson, Ryley Walker, and Squid.
https://gweniferraymond.com/
https://vimeo.com/251914988
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Full of Noises, Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 15.00
