ONLINE TICKETS NOW CLOSED BUT DOOR TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE
Dark Alchemy proudly presents

NERO KANE (psych / dark folk, Italy)
DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC (experimental early music, Bristol)
ROOKERIES (acoustic guitar duo, Bristol)

Set times:
7:30PM DOORS
8PM ROOKERIES
8:50PM DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC
9:50PM NERO KANE
For your comfort, we encourage you to bring some layers to stay warm, as the venue is an historic church and is therefore fairly cold.
Please note there are steps up into the church, let us know if you need assistance.
There are no toilets on site, directions to pre-arranged facilities will be available.

NERO KANE
Psych dark folk songwriter Nero Kane (guitar/vocals), accompanied by artist Samantha Stella (organ/mellotron/vocals), opened the "Temples Tour" with a live performance in the ruins of a Neo-Gothic cathedral near Leipzig and will perform as a duo between 2023 and 2024 at various festivals, clubs and in the atmospheric setting of churches and historic sites in Europe and the UK. The first Italian date was in support of US dark musician Zola Jesus. The third album, "Of Knowledge and Revelation," inspired by Dante's Paradise and Hell, has been mentioned by many journalists as being among the best Italian and international albums of 2022.

Nero Kane's ritual music, between Italian Occult Psychedelia, pagan chant and liturgical art, guitar arpeggios and solemn organ notes, cinematic and emotionally overwhelming, has been described as a suspended, crepuscular journey with a unique style and personality. The live performances have been depicted as shamanic, hypnotic and full of beauty and intensity. Echoes of Swans, Nick Cave, Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, the Swedish Cold Meat Industry sound and Nico, to which Stella's vocal timbre is compared.

The first album was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Joe Cardamone, Mark Lanegan's last collaborator, while the second and third albums were recorded in Italy with producer Matt Bordin and include the presence of multifaceted artist and singer Samantha Stella. In addition to headlining tours, Nero Kane supported musicians from the international experimental, dark and folk scene including Jozef Van Wissem, Darkher, Jonathan Hultén, Hugo Race and Marissa Nadler.

https://nerokane.bandcamp.com/album/of-knowledge-and-revelation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynaHa-cHDpQ

DEAD SPACE CHAMBER MUSIC
Dead Space Chamber Music (DSCM) are an experimental early music group from Bristol, UK. They reinterpret historical material, particularly from the medieval and Renaissance periods, taking forms and melodies that are hundreds of years old and shapeshifting them into new and varied contemporary works. Drawing on many musical approaches, including ‘found sound’ and improvisation, they incorporate elements and atmospheres of dark medieval, dark-folk, ritual ambient, avant-garde and doom in their powerful and emotive music.

Together with modular synth artist Tommy Creep, DSCM also co-curate the Dark Alchemy event series, curating immersive events in atmospheric spaces, hosting and collaborating with artists such as Kate Arnold, The Nent (DE), Il Santo Bevitore, A-Sun Amissa and Maud the Moth.

The band has earned acclaim for their live shows having previously supported The Danse Society, Cold in Berlin and Rose McDowell. In the last year they toured the UK with hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten & Danielle de Picciotto Crime and the City Solution) and internationally acclaimed composer and virtuoso cellist Jo Quail.

The Black Hours is the band’s latest studio album. Two years in the making, it was released in late 2021. The songs show the breadth of the group’s scope in terms of influences and approaches, giving new life to historic material. The title refers to an intimate medieval prayer book - a devotional 'book of hours’ - of the same name. Ranging from melodic and tender to doom-laden and visceral, it digs deep into the unsettling and disorienting experiences of the time it was created. The album has received very positive reviews, and has brought Dead Space Chamber Music to the attention of wider audiences in and beyond the UK.

“The Black Hours is deeply storied and gloriously doomy ... a mix of beauty and heaviness, ancient and new.” The Quietus

https://dscm.bandcamp.com/album/the-black-hours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4v0jON2AFY

ROOKERIES
Instrumental duo of Finnian Evans and Kieran Glas use the subtleties of their acoustic guitars to conjure a musical meeting between Middle Europe’s heartland and rooted Americana.

Rookeries are an acoustic prog-folk duo that unravel stories with the intricate communication between their guitars. Meeting in late 2017, after months of writing and improvising, Rookeries formed in Bristol in 2017. Instantly drawn to each other's style and craft the duo began collecting and collating movements and riffs drawing from their wide range of contrasting influences. From Opeth to Radiohead, Eric Satie to Nirvana, merging post-rock and folk the band released their first self-titled EP in 2020. The follow up; Mnemosyne, which delves deeper into the duality of both guitars and their personalities, was released in 2021.

https://rookeries.bandcamp.com/album/mnemosyne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwzf4fvte8w

Thank you to the Churches Conservation Trust

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