Heidi Contagious presents:
Yuko Araki at Exchange Basement
+ Support from Stead

7.30pm doors
£12 adv

“Yuko Araki channels noisy psychedelia... tempering esoteric noise with playful brightness” - FACT MAG

“It is the psychedelic connection that makes Araki’s work so powerfully compelling” - A CLOSER LISTEN

“With Yuko Araki’s approach, a genre that’s easily one of the most challenging to listen to becomes a siren song” - CVLT NATION

Tokyo’s Yuko Araki surveils an expanded terrain with IV, her new album coming out October 2th via Australian Label Room40.

Moving outward from the orbit of her End Of Trilogy edition, Araki creates a wholly more bludgeoning sound world. Working at the nexus of ritual, noise, sub sonics and crushing rhythms, her latest recording is resolutely embodied, smothering the listener in undulating pressure waves. She also summons an altogether otherworldly approach to voice, which operates as fugitive spirits within their caustic, post-industrial sound spaces she composes. This interest in voice is accentuated with special contributions from guests including Endon’s Taichi Nagura.

Yuko Araki is one of a number of young female artists emerging from Japan that are redefining the outer boundaries of noise, post-industrial techno and experimental electronics.

Raised as a pianist, Araki’s teenage obsession with metal opened a gateway towards various types of intense sonics. Exploring a diverse range music projects over the past decade (KUUNATIC, Concierto de la Familia), her solo work resolved in 2019 after she developed an approach to analog freeform analog noise, releasing her first EP “I” (Gerpfast Collective) and her debut album “II” (Commando Vanessahttps://open.spotify.com/track/2ldaOttcW2PoLjBIxkVLy1). Working with a reductive set of tools, her methodology was to create work that created a sense of timbral intensity and complexity through a weaving together of competing elements.

In 2021 Australian Label Room40 released “End of Trilogy”, a record of unpredictable momentum and tempered ferocity. Even at its most intense, Yuko Araki’s work maintains a sense of playfulness, and a determination not to succumb to mere sonic nihilism. Drawing on techniques borrowed from 70s prog-rock and even free jazz, she dissolves expectation and in the process reveals an utterly personal approach to noise and experimental electronics.

YUKO ARAKI ONLINE: https://linktr.ee/yukoarakimusic

ROOM40 ONLINE: https://room40.org/

Stead is a musician and artist based in London currently studying at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

As a multintrumentalist, singer and producer, stead combines intricate songwriting with ornate production to create adventurous and ecstatic sound that moves between intimate vocals, noise and baroque electronic arrangements. They will be performing early iterations of works from their upcoming debut EP.

Please note the basement is not wheelchair accessible. For more accessibility info, please email [email protected]

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