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Saturday 18 April 2026ADRA Promotions as part of 20-21 Visual Arts Centre ARTIST ROOMS Jenny Holzer exhibition in partnership with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland presents ...
LISTENING ROOMS
an evening of ambient music performances in the gallery with ...
Bhajan Bhoy
Netherlands-based musician Ajay Saggar makes deep meditative music drawing on psychedelic raga and esoteric electronica to thrill and elevate the listener to a higher sonic plane. - "a unique soundworld broad enough to encompass wild psych-noise guitar, dream-pop lullabies, and futuristic drones with thrilling results" - Mojo Magazine
https://bhajanbhoy.bandcamp.com/
Emergence Collective
Sheffield improvising ensemble build beautiful, minimalist sound worlds - “beautifully subtle yet hypnotic performance of stripped back improvised minimalism" - The Guardian
https://www.emergencecollective.co.uk/
ADRA & If Planes Were Comets
A special site-responsive collaborative improvisation between Andy Abbott's ambient and Dom Mason's electronic and acoustic solo projects.
https://adraprojects.org/adra/
PLUS Weird Garden DJ - specially selected tunes from Lincoln's experimental music, sound and spoken word events collective.
https://weirdgarden.bandcamp.com/
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Church Square, Scunthorpe DN15 6TA
Doors at 7pm. First live act 7:30pm. Live music finished by 10pm.
Age 16+
£12 (with concession available)
More info at: www.2021visualartscentre.co.uk/artist-rooms
Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/listening-rooms-live-music-in-the-gallery-tickets-1982672135730
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Bhajan Bhoy
Drawing from a deep well of psychedelia, Bhajan Bhoy further shifts the parameters of the genre with a beautiful and meditative set of tracks. Within this kaleidoscopic sonic universe, you will find raga-esque excursions, meditative Dream House drone, Laurel Canyon-recalling folk, electronic soundscapes and heavy guitar riffola (sometimes two chords are enough!). This is the sound of freedom! Imagine Pandit Pran Nath, Spacemen 3, Pauline Oliveros and Don Cherry drinking psilocybin tea and letting loose in a studio.
"a unique soundworld broad enough to encompass wild psych-noise guitar, dream-pop lullabies, and futuristic drones with thrilling results" / Mojo Magazine
“With BHAJAN BHOY, Saggar synthesizes all of the stylistic approaches he’s explored over the years, swirling them into an intoxicating musical blend, with an earthy spirituality. Even the project’s name reflects the dual aspects of Saggar’s upbringing coming together in harmony. In Hindi, a “bhajan” is a devotional song, sung in the mandir, or temple, while “bhoy” is a Scottish and Irish derivation for a young man. There’s a searching quality to Bhajan Bhoy, as if Saggar is still hunting for transcendence with each track, whether through an expansive drone, an orchestral facility on the piano, or an electronics-augmented raga that threatens to dip into noise” (Erick Bradshaw / writer and WFMU DJ).
- "a unique soundworld broad enough to encompass wild psych-noise guitar, dream-pop lullabies, and futuristic drones with thrilling results" / Mojo Magazine
- "subtle and darkly beautiful" / Electronic Sound Magazine
- "ambitious and flush with ideas...they're fabulous albums" / Uncut Magazine
- "highly immersive, and showing a great spectrum of sounds and emotions" / Silent Radio
https://www.silentradio.co.uk/03/29/interview-ajay-saggar-bhajan-bhoy/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100054171434137
https://www.instagram.com/ajayamarsaggar1700/
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Emergence Collective creates beautiful, minimalist sound worlds that gradually unfold through improvised performance. With a revolving lineup and a vibrant mix of ancient and modern instruments, the ensemble unites some of the North’s most exciting improvisers in fresh and unexpected combinations. Drawing on shared backgrounds in experimental, folk, electronic, classical, and early music, they generate a hypnotic, otherworldly kaleidoscope of sound, completely unique to every live performance and shaped by the space in which it occurs.
Their improvisations are deeply informed by their environment, responding to each location’s history and acoustic character. They frequently perform in unconventional spaces, including a disused cinema fly tower, cathedrals, an abandoned warehouse, and a Tudor house.
The group has performed to sold-out audiences across the UK, released multiple albums, and led accessible, hands-on workshops that explore their creative methods. The ensemble is currently directed by Juliana Day, Rob Bentall, Zebedee C. Budworth, and Jemma Freese.
"beautifully subtle yet hypnotic performance of stripped back improvised minimalism" - The Guardian
“enthralling, gorgeous, mysterious and mesmerising… immerse yourself in the realm of their magic” - Cast The Dice
“Dislodged from time, fragments of older and folkier traditions seep into contemporary ones in their compositions with seamless grace, ornate patterns ambling through the reverberant space they're enclosed in” - The Quietus
“Flutes intermingle with gently plucked strings, toots of baritone sax float above ripples of percussion, while dreamy vocals coalesce with the distinct and engulfing tones of the hammer dulcimer and the nyckelharpa. It’s remarkably measured and considered music given it is being birthed in real time” - Loud & Quiet
“..astonishingly beautiful. The moods develop organically, and the structures are so clearly defined.” - Twisted Soul Music
Website- https://www.emergencecollective.co.uk/home
Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/emergencecollectivemusic/
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/EmergenceCollectiveMusic
Youtube- https://www.youtube.com/@emergencecollective5177
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Andy Abbott is an artist, musician and writer who lives in West Yorkshire, UK. For a long time Andy was synonymous with pummelling noise bands. However, in recent years – under his solo moniker ADRA – he has been making minimalist abstract music, alongside more acoustic and ambient-leaning explorations. In 2024 Andy released ‘Music For Psychiatric Wards (And Fluid Structures)’; a compilation of recordings inspired by his experiences as a creative practitioner performing ambient music in psychiatric wards across Yorkshire in 2023. Previous releases include tapes and vinyl for Bloxham Tapes, Reverb Worship and Folklore Tapes. He has collaborated with Alice Hubble, Aby Vulliamy and Dean McPhee; and shared tours and bills with Maurizio Abate and Above the Tree, Edgars Rubenis, Ex-Easter Island Head and Norway’s Soft Noise Ensemble.
“a beautifully structured hour of ambient music; reflective and calm with endlessly unravelling layers.” – Uncut, 2024
“…a genre-defying album that is as fluid as its title would suggest. From the patter of the steel pan to the whirr and drone of the organ, what unfurls in between these two harbours is a deeply searching travelogue; at times water-like, at others light-filled as if in some kind of morning glow.” – The Quietus, 2024
‘a remarkably affecting series of tracks that vary quite wildly in terms of mood and instrumentation … I could listen to it for weeks.’ – Norman Records, 2024
“the album is reminiscent of composers like La Monte Young, Hans Otto or Arco Part, where the approach is to pick out a nuanced emotion and explore it fully. That said, there is also adventure in the album’s minimalism. It feels much like a meandering, richly-adorned Greg Foat composition, split out into its constituent parts, each given the chance to live and breathe independently of one another.” – Dirty Sunbeams, 2024
“This is another solo project helmed by the Bradford based musician Andrew DR Abbott, whose work cartwheels through genres the way fat old men wish they could move through cheese. It is the first documentation of ADRA, and it’s quite a package … The music is improvised on a variety of instruments (from baritone guitar to ocarina), and the pieces are designed to inspire us to dream of a post-capitalist utopia. Since I do that all the time already, this is just the sort of thing I should be listening to. As should you. A great offering of the minimal as maximal.” – Byron Coley for The Wire, 2020
https://andyabbott.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-psychiatric-wards-and-fluid-structures
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ADRA Promotions is the curatorial music arm of Andy Abbott's embedded practice, celebrating and shining a light on the independent, grassroots, Do-It-Yourself underground. Between 2011 and 2017 while he was Fellow in Music at University of Bradford, he produced the M@BU programme of pioneering grassroots music, and Bradford Threadfest and Recon festivals – both in The Guardian’s top-ten metropolitan festivals. Since 2022 he has curated programmes and events across Calderdale, West Yorkshire including the Victoria Theatre's Antidote programme, and with the Puzzle Hall Inn community pub in Sowerby Bridge. Recent events include Ustad Noor Bakhsh (Pakistan), Sirom (Slovenia), Dal:um (Korea), Sir Richard Bishop (USA), and Bulbils (Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington) as well as setting up a Youth Music Collective and 'do-it-together bootcamp’ to provide opportunities for young people to get involved in the grassroots music scene in the borough.
https://adraprojects.org/adrapromotions/
https://www.facebook.com/adrapromotions/
https://www.instagram.com/zadanzig/
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