Sunday 08.09.24 | Doors 12, Music 1 - 3pm at The Hot Tin, Whitstable Rd, Faversham ME13 8BD
Daylight Music 377 | PRAH Recordings: Donna Thompson, Yama Warashi & NiCKY | https://buytickets.at/arcticcircle/1345323 

This Autumn, we find ourselves entering once more the enchanting space of The Hot Tin in Faversham, a venue that just celebrated its 139th Birthday! Once upon a time the space was a church, then a school gym, scout hut, camping shop, printers and commercial wood joiners. Now it's a thriving grassroots music venue for the local community. In early September we are working with PRAH Recordings to create a unique intimate piano-focused show across three distinct acts.

Donna Thompson's music swirls around you where cinematic jazz meets meditative R&B - soulful melodies and effortlessly charming hooks come together in honest pure pop moments. On her debut EP on PRAH Something True she grapples with the importance of self-love, of community and the strength found within oneself and others. Within her music the message to remember is to just breathe, be thankful and exist in the present.

NiCKY is a composer, pianist, and singer. The tragicomic love child of east London’s queer performance scene and Zippos Circus, their intimate live sets are heart-rendering yet irreverent. They takes influence from Anhoni, Elton John and Perfume Genius, exploring queer love, liminality and tales of characters from the road. Characterised by a quiet solitude, they carve new territories within intentional, performative queer storytelling and songwriting.

The Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara had been based in Bristol ever since co-founding the now defunct fusion punk collective Zun Zun Egui. Since then she blossomed on her own across more meditative but no less territorially transcendent records as Yama Warashi for PRAH. Yoshino has always had a sense of wanderlust – her aim is to keep an open ear and absorb everything that she can before returning it back out into the world through her music. 

Not only a birthday for the venue, but PRAH Recordings itself has also just marked its 10th anniversary of releasing esoteric music into the world. And our daytime series continues in its teenage years at we turn 15, so there is plenty to celebrate!

‘We are big fans of Daylight Music so having the chance to get three PRAH artists together at a great venue with a real piano for a proper daytime show is something of a thrill for us, we can't wait’ – Stephen (PRAH)

Further event details: Pay-What-You-Can entry in advance or on the door (we suggest £12 per adult), subject to availability/capacity. An event for all ages. As always with this series we endeavour to make our audience feel as safe, comfortable and welcome as we possibly can.

Our series is kindly supported by an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant

A decade or so ago Johnny Lynch aka Pictish Trail embarked on an adventure harnessing his effervescent animated energy and enthusiasm into collecting those musicians, artists and bands whose music he wanted us to discover and draw our attention to with the label Lost Map.

To mark 10 years of working together with Lost Map we present a party of three, a trio of artists and ensembles both new and old to the label. RSVP and help us wish many happy returns to one of our favourite labels.

Our Summer season draws to a close as we catchup again with our long distant musical pen pals the Lost Map label – Johnny Lynch (Pictish Trail) once again posts or presents three sets of artists from across the musical map for us to present in London and Kent.

Currently based in Edinburgh, Victoria Hume was born in Brighton, raised in Dorset, studied in Oxford and spent several years working in London before relocating to Johannesburg, where she lived for nearly a decade. Outside of music, Victoria works as an arts manager in health and medicine and as a researcher, and her musical and professional lives often intertwine with remarkable results. Radical Abundance is her latest album of absorbing atmospheric alt-folk songs, is all about the dying days of capitalism and what might emerge next.

Glasgow-based electronic producer Matt Gibb creates a woozy headrush of thumping beats, fuzz bass and playful found-sound samples under the alias Kinbote. His addictive new album Hemisphere explores recurring motifs of global commerce, climate change, international travel and the internet.

Originally from Norway but now based in Liverpool, Sara Wolff is a storyteller who with analogue warmth weaves together elements from indie-folk, prog rock, and art-pop. With comparisons to acts including Tune-Yards & Cate Le Bon, her music has received attention from both BBC Radio 1 and Radio 6. She recently contributed a new single to Lost Map’s subscribers series PostMap Club.

Is there anything more powerful than hearing a choir of live voices inhabiting and bringing a space to life? Whether singing chants, protest songs, shanties or a herding call to cattle? We don’t think so and neither does singer, composer and choir leader Ben See.

Today Ben returns to our series with the 50 strong choir SYRINX from Vauxhall - who will not only sing the intriguing mix of music aforementioned, but with attempt to talk to us about the transformative and cathartic benefits of singing itself.

Also joining us is singer, musician, painter and photographer – Haymanot Tesfa. The sound of her voice is fearless and intensely experimental and as a musician she sings exclusively in Amharic whilst playing the krar, a six-string bowl-shaped lyre. Haymanot’s music is inspired by the ancient landscapes and meditative social & religious music of her Ethiopian roots.

We become a community today – those guests who bring with them new songs from far and near to our stage, and those like yourselves who have come to be inspired and possibly add their own voices into the space.

James M. Creed & Jack Louis Rennie, Clare Spollen, Jay Austin Keys and Fernando Yada Rodrigues + Michelle Hromin

Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has for fifteen years become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound, alongside delicious cake, in some of London’s most splendid and iconic venues.

James M. Creed brings friends and collaborators from Leeds and London to join us for curation and a live music playlist of approachable, pulse-based music. The afternoon will feature works of experimental delight, transforming the familiar into the unfamiliar, with the works of composers Julius Eastman, Laurence Crane, Hilary Tann, and James himself.

Experience minimalistic meditations on identity, nature and modern life played beautifully across many different fingers on guitar, grand piano, clarinet and electronics. We only ask you bring a sense of curiosity as you enter, and hopefully you will leave the experience a little changed by lightness and energy within the music and sounds that the performers will play and inhabit this afternoon.

Connecting the dots and setting the scene between the other performers will be Michelle Hromin on clarinet and electronics.

Returning to St John’s Leytonstone they present a series of new musicians who plan to take you on a unique journey within the resonating acoustics of the space. Over the two hours you'll experience ambitious modern classical music, experimental electronic sounds and songwriting with intense soul.

97 Ensemble join us to champion music by underrepresented composers, with a particular focus on women composers featuring the music of Errolyn Wallen and Shiva Feshareki. A duo of ethereal water spirits >Σ will dive deep into otherness with oceanic vibration and electronic creations. Kay Elizabeth music explores words and music from lost places with a voice which is honest, raw and true.

As our fourteenth year draws slowly to a close, we invite you to a final gathering and one of our most anticipated events of the season. Our joyful and jubilant host is our bobble-hat-wearing pal PICTISH TRAIL who will present his take on pop music in all its various forms, with artists from the label's fizzing first decade, from its present and even future.

Daylight is pleased to work once again with their favourite multi-instrumentalist - and legend – Terry Edwards
(Tindersticks, PJ Harvey, Gallon Drunk, Holy Holy, Jerry Dammers etc).

In his latest curation for the series Terry takes time to examine, explore and dissect his musical DNA alongside the music and musicians who have accompanied him in some way or spirit over the course of his career.

With The NJE (Near Jazz Experience) Terry is joined by Mark Bedford and Simon Charterton, two of Terry's oldest musical friends. The trio is supplemented on this occasion by special guest Davey Payne - a huge influence on Terry with his signature saxophone playing with Ian Dury and The Blockheads.

The humour and music of Harpo Marx looms large in Terry's formative years. He has invited Rachel Horton-Kitchlew to fill St John's with the glorious sound of the harp - a sly nod and a wink to his vaudeville hero.

Yova came up on Terry's radar via Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey) and her co-writer Mark T. Vernon who managed John Cale - whose work has inspired him since 1975.

The final piece of the puzzle is pianist Pete Saunders (Dexys) who deftly joins the dots on the afternoon and this four-dimensional Venn diagram, depicting Edwards' bringing together all the pieces of his singular approach to music

Any time spent in the company of Mr Terry Edwards never fails to be a pleasure and captivating joy.

Arctic Circle's Daylight Music returns for a limited edition* run this Autumn beginning in late October. Once again let us take you on a journey across sound and space, inviting artists from across the map into the welcoming, comforting and resonating acoustics of St John’s in Leytonstone.

The worlds of film, dreampop and post-classical combine as the church will spring to life with the sounds of the piano, strings, synthesiser, vocals and organ combining to conjure imagined landscapes and vistas.

A decade or so ago Johnny Lynch aka Pictish Trail embarked on an adventure harnessing his effervescent animated energy and enthusiasm into collecting those musicians, artists and bands whose music he wanted us to discover and draw our attention to with the label Lost Map.

To mark 10 years of working together with Lost Map we present a party of three, a trio of artists and ensembles both new and old to the label. RSVP and help us wish many happy returns to one of our favourite labels.