Music, Myth and Other Worlds | Haze Deep Listening 0022

Our monthly Sunday sessions are back, this time with a series of musical deep dives.

Each month, a guest host will guide us through a topic, musical movement, scene or genre through storytelling and shared listening. We’ll listen to records together, exploring the histories, people and ideas behind the music, in a relaxed and cosy environment.

Around the session, DJs and musicians will play selections connected to the theme, alongside the usual Haze Sunday setup: soft furnishings, visuals, hot food and massage.

About the session:

In his book More Brilliant Than the Sun, Kodwo Eshun used the idea of Sonic Fiction as a way of understanding the speculative worlds created through music by artists such as Miles Davis, Sun Ra and Drexciya- artists whose conceptual significance was often overlooked within mainstream music journalism and academia. His work helped establish Sonic Fiction as a framework for thinking about music, mythology, futurism and cultural imagination.

This session will trace the development of Sonic Fiction as a framework while exploring some of the most innovative artists to have created futuristic musical worlds across the decades. Travelling from jazz to techno, Detroit to Kingston, Earth to Mars to Saturn and back again, we will explore how mythology, speculation and imagined futures can shape musical innovation.

About Jacob Dowdle:

Dowdle is a DJ, Producer and all around music nerd based in Bristol. His residency on VOID Radio has showcased his love for all things heavy, spatial and hardcore - genres span from electro, broken beat, dubstep all the way to jungle, with a heavy focus on music made in the UK.

His unquenchable thirst for discovering new music has led to a large collection and in depth knowledge of the dark corners of electronic music. Weaving bass weight and heavy percussion through to euphoric moments on the dance floor.