Featured Artists 25th of April 2025
Image from music video 'Contra Mundum' by Kirsten Morrison
Kirsten Morrison will be performing live for the Friday Night Sessions event at The Cove Studio on the 25th of April 2025.
Kirsten Morrison
Singer, composer and violinist who has worked as a musician in several fields: performing her own songs, as an opera singer, playing in various bands and writing for film and tv programmes, as well as operas, radio plays and theatre.
Her songs are influenced by poets such as Blake, Rossetti, Byron, Poe and Coleridge and embrace a wide range of musical styles including opera, gothic, electronica and soundtrack. She has performed extensively throughout Europewith her own music and with the Lene Lovich Band, supporting bands such as the Psychedelic Furs. Solo gigs include the WGT Festival in Leipzig, the Ule Heli festival in Estonia and the Gothic Dark Wave festival in Tilloloy, France.
Film and TV work include “The Plantagenets” documentary series for the BBC as well as “Songs of Alchemy”, an original opera about the alchemist John Dee which formed the musical soundtrack to a film of the same name by Jude Rawlins which was shown at several international film festivals.
Her album “Proserpine’s Gold” was met with wide acclaim and airplay on BBC6 and BBC Radio 3. She is currently working on a new solo album as well as collaborating with guitarist Nev Hawkins and poet Naomi Foyle as The Vales, and creating soundscapes with Paul Friedlander for his light installations.
Kirsten Morrison - 'Contra Mundum'
Thanks to Lene Lovich, Morgan King, Peter Shipman and Luca Santucci for their vocals and Jude Cowan Montague for her paintings.
Kirsten Morrison - ‘Double, Double, Toil And Trouble’
is based on Shakespeare’s classic, Macbeth. This darkly gothic number is filled with witches’ chants, late evening operatic vocals and classical horror instrumentation which build into an epic orchestral stampede. New wave legend, Lene Lovich makes a rare special guest appearance and brings her trademark sound to this ideal Halloween track.
Mark Lasis with band
Mark Lasis will be performing live for the Friday Night Sessions event at The Cove Studio on the 25th of April 2025.
Mark Lasis
Is a jazz accordionist based in London.
Mark's music combines elements of jazz, funk, and rock among other styles. His innovative sound has garnered him recognition as one of
the most promising emerging London jazz artists.
The use of unique instrumentation and digital effects provide his trademark sound world
within which he experiments with the improvisatory idiom.
He has performed at the Camden Club, Temple of Art and Music, and at
the iconic Hootananny Brixton, as well as headlining Vineyard Jazz
Club in Canary Wharf and The Bullingdon in Oxford, to name just a few venues.
Mark Lasis - Behind the Clouds
Improvising a solo over the composition 'Behind the Clouds' at O2 Academy Oxford, alongside the fusion project Optica.
Mark Lasis - 'Acid Rain'
Original composition 'Acid Rain' performed at the Tooting Tram Club
Hand Held Light Sculptures - Live performance
Paul Friedlander will be appearing live for the Friday Night Sessions event at The Cove Studio on the 25th of April 2025.
Paul Friedlander
"Hand Held Light Sculptures"
Along with the installations for which Friedlander is best known, he has long been intrigued by the performative potential of the medium. He has given a series of performances, often as part of a talk or lecture, two in a night club and most recently as part of a light festival in Lithuania. Working on a much smaller scale, the hand held pieces show a side of the work never seen in the large installations, and reveal Friedlander as a passionate performer. In his latest appearance in London, he teamed up with two musicians, Kirsten Morrison, on voice and violin and Nev Hawkins on guitar. They performed together live for the club event and recorded a soundscape which was played as part of the festival in Lithuania and can also be heard on the video on YouTube of the occasion.
Paul Friedlander is a light artist who first trained as a physicist.
Paul Friedlander became fascinated by art involving the movement and light in the late 1960s, when he visited the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Kinetics show at the Hayward Gallery.[5] He was most inspired by the works of the cybernetic artists Nicolas Schöffer and Wen-Ying Tsai. Since then he has been strongly driven to make kinetic works. In 1983 he made an important discovery of the chaotic properties of spinning string and invented chromastrobic light 'light that changes color faster than the human eye can see.'
These innovations became a major foundation for many of his later works. His first sculptures to use chromastrobic light were exhibited in the same year at London's ICA gallery.
Initially Friedlander started experimenting with small sculptures which over the years have increased in size as he technically improved the designs and created more complex systems. The chromastrobic lighting system initially was custom built by Friedlander as there were no other light sources that could produce this light. In recent years he developed ways of modifying standard LED lights, however this has only been possible since around 2000s. His biggest work to date at 15 meters tall was commissioned to be displayed for 'Milan Design Week 2006' in the Porta Ticinese gate.
Paul Friedlander - 'Spinning Cosmos'
Spinning Cosmos was part of Art Futura, Roma 2017. This was a unique opportunity to transform a large and most unusually shaped space in the former customs warehouse close to the main railway station in Rome, which was converted into a temporary exhibition space. The room shaped almost like a slice of cake had an 8 metre high ceiling and an approximately 100 square metre floor area. The lower halves of the walls were covered in mirror plastic while above a long ribbon shaped screen snaked around the space upon which a video played while various kinetic artworks were grouped around the floor.
Paul Friedlander -Vilnius Light Festival 2025
Feb 4, 2025 • LITHUANIA
The Vilnius Light festival was presented at multiple sites across the centre of the city. Most of these were outside, a few were inside, and at the Energy and Technology Museum was the location for Hand of the Galaxy by Friedlander. The museum was formally the city's first electrical power station. When the building was converted to a museum, the original machinery was left in place. Here you see kinetic wave sculptures placed in front of the steam boilers that dominate the central hall, and complete with most of their original pipework which laces through the building from submarine like basement to the upper floors, can all be explored by visitors.
Paul Friedlander - 'Sensory Seas'
Haute couture designer Iris van Herpen chose Paul Friedlander's spinning light sculptures to accompany her new collection presented on the 20th January 2020 at the Cirque D'Hiver for Paris Fashion Week. The theme of the show was Sensory Seas.
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Image is from music video 'Alien' by Morgan King
Morgan King will be performing live for the Friday Night Sessions event at The Cove Studio on the 25th of April 2025.
Morgan King
Grammy Award winning songwriter, musician, record producer and photographer.
Born in Spitalfields, London, King's musical career began in 1979 as drummer for Manchester band Illustration, who were subsequently signed by the indie label, "Some Bizzare" featuring on the Some Bizzare Album. After several years immersed in the UK indie scene, King's musical direction changed considerably with the advent of house music in the late 1980s. In 1988, King moved to Chicago and started writing with Kym Mazelle and Marshall Jefferson on Mazelle's first album, Crazy, which was released the following year. In 1989, King joined his third band, the Manic MCs who had a UK top thirty hit with their first release, "Mental".
Around 1994/1995, King took a break from the music scene, eventually resurfacing in 2003 to co-write Trybe's "Sarah Said" with Fragma. In 2007 he opened his Accidental Music label so he could make his archive available in the digital realm for the first time, and to collaborate on new dance projects. Also around the same time he became a professional photographer after he was invited to do a one off project in Iran. To date he is still working as an artist releasing solo albums and playing live, plus since 2012 he joined Lene Lovich as part of her band.
Morgan King | Turmzimmer "Come Together"
Filmed by Rosa Roedelius at the Ehemaliges Grand Hotel Sauerhof, Baden bei Wien, Austria Vocals: Morgan King Keyboards & Programmed: Turmzimmer Produced & Mixed by: Turmzimmer Written by: Arnold Kasar/Morgan King Published by: Superfrieden Publishing/Songs United Publishing/Joerg Fukking Musikverlag/Warner Chappell Music ©2024 Accidental Music
MORGAN KING 'BUILDING DREAMS' DOCUMENTARY
Video documentary by Big Satsuma Radio's Johnny and Bridget. Grammy Award winning songwriter and musician Morgan King (Illustration, Clubland, Obiman, Lene Lovich Band, Inception in Black) invites the duo to spend a weekend at his idyllic home/studio and discusses his music career from the beginning, music making, technology, strange tales of dog walking, deportation, doughnuts, patreon, banging bits of metal with a hammer, the finest compost and garden gnomes too. Expect the unexpected. Contains some of Morgan's iconic music videos. All music provided by/with permission of Morgan King. All copyrights respected.
Morgan King "Sex Shop"
Sex Shop is the 1st single taken from Morgan King's album "Old Skin". Produced by: Giulio Gaietto & Morgan King. Mixed by: Giulio Gaietto. Published by: Warner Chappell Music. © 2018 Accidental Music. Filmed & Edited by: Atilla Riegler.
Morgan King 'Alien'
Promotional music video. Track mixed by Giulio Gaietto and co produced with Morgan King. Published by Warner Chappell Music. ©2016 Accidental Music.
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Image is from music video 'Baby Gasoline' by Voodoo Rays
Voodoo Rays will be performing live for the Friday Night Sessions event at The Cove Studio on the 25th of April 2025.
VOODOO RAYS
A 4 piece alt/psych/post punk/pop/rock band based in London/Brighton. Over the past 10 years they have been prolific in self-releasing 11 albums, 8 singles and 6 EP's.
With over a 150 gigs up and down the country under the belt they have developed their live sound to be an exciting, edge of the seat roller coaster ride that has been described by SupaJam.com as "rock that's not been polished and manipulated, but is instead raw, rough and marvellously tactile" and this goes some way to describe the tension and darkness that pervades their sometimes unnerving experimental sound. Their new EP release 'Voodoo Hoo Haa' is on bandcamp and their last album 'Empire' is on spotify.
"We are a fiercely independent band and have developed something of a legendary status on the East London circuit, building up a fearsome reputation by word of mouth alone and by maintaining a frenetic gigging schedule around the capital"
Voodoo Rays are:
Francis Elliott: guitar and vocals
Andy Symes: bass
Graham Hadley: drums
Angelo Campagna: guitar/keys
'Baby Gasoline' First track from Voodoo Rays lockdown album 'Domestic'
Reviews: https://themusicalhype.com/voodoo-rays-empire-album-review/
https://www.isthismusic.com/voodoo-rays
Other links: www.voodoorays.bandcamp.com . New EP release 'Voodoo Hoo Haa' is on bandcamp and last album 'Empire' is on spotify.
http://www.facebook.com/voodourays
Image is from music video 'Baby Gasoline' by Voodoo Rays