Trappist Afterland/Kitchen Cynics/Henry Parker

TRAPPIST AFTERLAND

Southern New South Wales, Australian-based Adam Geoffrey Cole and his band TRAPPIST AFTERLAND make beautifully meditative deep acid folk/devotional music using voices, various acoustic stringed instruments, tabla, percussion, harmonium and Tanpura drones, and have been doing so since 2010, during the course of which they have released at least 25 albums as well as a live take on the soundtrack to Nic Roeg's 'Walkabout' on labels such as SUGARBUSH RECORDS, FUTURE GRAVE, REVERB WORSHIP, SUNSTONE and many more. The only Scottish date on a tour of the UK and Europe, this promises to be a fantastic and a rare opportunity to catch this mesmerising artist in concert in support of 'Evergreen- Walk to Paradise Garden', a new album which features contributions from David Tibet (Current 93) and Angeline Morrison (Topic Records).

SHINDIG MAGAZINE☆☆☆☆☆

RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE ☆☆☆☆

KITCHEN CYNICS

Kitchen Cynics is the musical project of Alan Davidson from Aberdeen, Scotland. Active since the late 80s, with over a hundred releases, Alan is a prolific and talented songwriter whose work draws on his own experiences as well as the characters and history of Aberdeen. Full of charm, his albums are tender, bittersweet, packed with a dry wit and an ear for a melody that can pluck your heartstrings, whilst the words resonate deep within.

'Sounded to me like a cross between Anne Briggs and Robert Fripp' (Dylan Carlson, Earth)

'The Kitchen Cynics have been releasing great weird music from their hidden fortress in Aberdeen since the 1980s' (Byron Coley, The Wire)

"Having released albums every year since 1989, Aberdeen’s Alan Davidson has amassed quite the catalogue. Operating in terrain similar to Current 93 (with much more of an emphasis on the folk side of things) and Ivor Cutler"

HENRY PARKER's contemporary take on folk, which he explores via thoughtful yet deeply accomplished guitar playing, unfurls and moves much like the landscape itself - mirroring the unpredictable, yet beautifully flowing, rolling hills and valleys of his hometown, the Aire Valley in West Yorkshire.

RnR Magazine - ★★★★★

Shindig! Magazine -★★★★

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