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"Sell out warning! ML Buch has totally crushed the 2020s dream-pop game with wistful Joni-esque melodies, MIDI Cocteau guitar flushes and pads to die for. With support from viola wiz Astrid Sonne, this is pure sophisto-pop perfection FFO: James K, OPN, Erika de Casier, Elysia Crampton, Laurie Anderson."
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A gig held at Strange Brew on Thursday 29th February. The event starts at 19:00.
Off-Kilter live returns to Strange Brew this time bringing Astrid Sonne and ML Buch together for an intimate double header live show.
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ML BUCH
ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following debut EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017 she released her critically acclaimed album ‘Skinned’ on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020.
‘Suntub’ is her second full length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks, released in October 2023 on cult new label 15 love.
In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, is reflective of her love of combining 7-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and electronic experiments.
ML Buch has performed at the likes of Pitchfork Paris Avant-Garde, Roskilde Festival, Fuchsbau Arts Festival, and the sound and vision programme at CPH:DOX, as well as performing as part of Laurie Anderson’s Talking Choir project.
She has also completed commissioned work with poet Ingvild Lothe and contributed to releases by artists including CTM, Jura, and Astrid Sonne (with whom she’s also performed live).
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ASTRID SONNE
Astrid Sonne is a Copenhagen-based composer and viola player. Her most recent album “outside of your lifetime” is a precisely created record that Sonne arrived at via improvisation, trimming and reassembly. The compositions appear like sculptures. They are made with keys, strings, voice and buttons. Many of the instruments and inputs on the record are carefully processed to efface their personality, so their origins are never exactly clear. One may follow
seamless transitions between pure generated oscillating waves and true ten-finger choral organ work. Other tracks present fierce waveforms through a shimmery rotary pulse, heated and perfectly suited for live experience of the music. Sonnes Hands-on and hands-off effects bleed into each other, and one often can’t tell the difference.
“Each song suggests its own era and its own space, and the cumulative effect is a garden of forking paths where every listen leads somewhere new.” (Pitchfork)
Entry requirements: 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
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ML BUCH
ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following debut EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017 she released her critically acclaimed album ‘Skinned’ on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020.
‘Suntub’ is her second full length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks, released in October 2023 on cult new label 15 love.
In her compositional practice ML Buch sketches up her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is generated through immersion in playing and assembling as a way of triggering random magic. Her live performances, both in solo and group formations, is reflective of her love of combining 7-string electric guitars in open tunings with synthetic instruments and electronic experiments.
ML Buch has performed at the likes of Pitchfork Paris Avant-Garde, Roskilde Festival, Fuchsbau Arts Festival, and the sound and vision programme at CPH:DOX, as well as performing as part of Laurie Anderson’s Talking Choir project.
She has also completed commissioned work with poet Ingvild Lothe and contributed to releases by artists including CTM, Jura, and Astrid Sonne (with whom she’s also performed live).
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ASTRID SONNE
Astrid Sonne is a Copenhagen-based composer and viola player. Her most recent album “outside of your lifetime” is a precisely created record that Sonne arrived at via improvisation, trimming and reassembly. The compositions appear like sculptures. They are made with keys, strings, voice and buttons. Many of the instruments and inputs on the record are carefully processed to efface their personality, so their origins are never exactly clear. One may follow
seamless transitions between pure generated oscillating waves and true ten-finger choral organ work. Other tracks present fierce waveforms through a shimmery rotary pulse, heated and perfectly suited for live experience of the music. Sonnes Hands-on and hands-off effects bleed into each other, and one often can’t tell the difference.
“Each song suggests its own era and its own space, and the cumulative effect is a garden of forking paths where every listen leads somewhere new.” (Pitchfork)
Entry requirements: 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
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