Rough Trade Bristol, Love Thy Neighbour and Tiger Lion present:

Sunday 27th May in Rough Trade Bristol

Doors : 19.30

£4 on Headfirst Bristol

Abi Wade (Brighton / Love Thy Neighbour)

Using cello, vocals, orchestral arrangements, choral ensembles, location samples, synths and piano Abi Wade explores human nature through real and abstracted personas on her debut album ‘Beautifully Astray’ out on 6th April through Love Thy Neighbour.

Abi wrote most of the tracks on the album on cello initially in various locations of her old hometown of Brighton, from the living room of her seafront apartment to the dark belly of Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar. “The cello is so versatile, and I love to explore those many characteristics using various techniques both traditional and unique, it’s such an emotive instrument and has a very human tone.”

From this starting point, Abi set out on a sonic exploration, getting field recordings in locations as diverse as a printworks, a tap dancing club and following a chance meeting there, a fishing boat: “After the tap dancing class I was explaining to the gentlemen who ran it how I was trying to get onto a boat to record some sounds and by pure coincidence it turned out he was a fisherman, I did not expect a tap dancing fisherman! It was truly an amazing experience to go out first thing on to the water and share a moment of time with such an interesting character.”

Following a move to Camden, London, the tracks were fleshed out with orchestral arrangements and were recorded in Jay Malhotra and Sam Duckworth’s Amazing Grace studio in Hoxton. These sessions included brass, wind and choral ensembles.

Abi then worked with ‘the patron saints of print’ Eley Kishimoto to create the visuals for the album matching the story of each print and pattern to the story of each song. Their patterns are featured on both the album and single artwork and has been a source of inspiration throughout the making of the album.

‘Beautifully Astray’ was recorded with support from Help Musician’s Emerging Excellence award, and the release with support from PRS for Music Foundation’s Women Make Music.

While developing as an artist, she has has toured the UK & Europe with Patrick Wolf, sold out her debut EP and released music on the label set up by Daniel Copeman of Esben & The Witch and has played shows with the likes of CocoRosie, Polica, Michael Kiwanuka, Other Lives, Deptford Goth and festivals such as End of The Road, The Great Escape and Wilderness.

http://abiwade.com/

http://facebook.com/abi.wade.cello

https://instagram.com/abiwade/

https://twitter.com/abi_wade

Tiger Lion ( London )

Immersive dream pop inspired and by nature and the subconscious.

Tiger Lion are a (mainly) French trio based in North London,

fronted by writer and visual artist, Clementine Blue. Their distilled melodies flourish from St Vincent’s asymmetrical purity to Tame Impala’s hypnotic riffing intensity and crackle with Throwing Muses’ bruised, cardiac fire across organic canvasses inspired by Blake and Turner.

Last year they released two thematic EPs: Outremer’s spectral, oceanic songs and The Moon Inside Me’s darker rituals of the habitual, followed this

February by the cracked enamel dream of their sad Valentine take

on Heart Of Glass.This spring will see Beyond The Mountains, a song cycle and visual book about the peace above the cloud line and the effect of thinner air on the human heart.

“…a breathy sad-girl tribute that rides over crunching guitars like an ocean swell…” - NOISEY

“(In Darkness) gradually morphs from a delicate ballad into a luscious, menacing ode with distorted electro shards.” - LINE OF BEST FIT

“A bewilderingly beautiful patchwork quilt of sound, fashioned by the memories of people she’s met, loved and lost along the way” - GOLD FLAKE PAINT

listen : https://tigerlion.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-mountains

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRDoZgTPWvQ

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