LA Presents Bonnie Mercer with Helen Svoboda and Chloë Sobek + Blood of a Pomegranate

 

7pm, Saturday 27 May

North Magdalene Laundry, Abbotsford Convent

LA presents the highly-anticipated performance by the internationally-renowned guitar virtuoso, Bonnie Mercer (https://bonniemercer.bandcamp.com/). Explore the world of unrestrained feedback, hallucinatory white noise, and mesmerizing guitar experimentation. 

Bonnie will be joined by dynamic double bass free improv duo Helen Svoboda and Chloë Sobek (https://www.chloesobek.com/) alongside the deep sounds of electronic noise and Armenien reed flute from Armenian musician Blood of a Pomegranate (Tig Harutyunyan) (https://bloodofapomegranate.bandcamp.com/album/7000-haunting-artsakh)

‘If you’ve ever seen Sunn O))) play live, Mercer makes use of the same sort of precision tooled grot that turns our insides out - all subharmonic drone and subby gnarrr that's a properly transformative listening experience at the right volume.’ - Boomkat Online