Having recently moved to Melbourne, Alec Ilyine's 3rd solo album 'Drift Lines' (Ramble Records) will be launched at the Brunswick Green 23rd of June.
Alec is a Belgian electro acoustic musician mixing fingerpicking with field-recordings and effects on the iPad. Sweet melodies and compositions are used as frameworks for an improvisational practice, using steel string guitar, cavaquinho and taishogoto, and different kinds of flutes and found objects from over the whole world.
As an intrepid traveler, bird sounds and song are collected and used as a sonic representation or souvenir of a certain place or country.
Taking his cues from Basho, Fahey and the like, Ilyine's dexterous guitar work draws on contemporary fingerpicking guitar, with influences ranging from Indian ragas to Flamenco and Arabic music: a blend of classical, Spanish and freeform stylings layered against atonal drone elements.
Intuitive, cinematic, deeply felt and gorgeously recorded, Drift Lines is a delicate and lysergic landscape for day-dreamers and drifters alike.
https://alecilyine.bandcamp.com
Joining him this night:
The Man from Atlantis is the moniker for Melbourne musician Mike Sill. Mike has been involved in underground music since 1991, as a member of '90s art-prog-noise fusion project Ray of Creation and krautrock duo Imperial Leatherman.
The last ten years he's been performing under the name the Man from Atlantis primarily as a solo artist drawing on folk, country, blues, improvisation, American primitive guitar, Indian classical, and psychedelia.
The Man from Atlantis has released 7 solo recordings and collaborated with artists from Argentina, Finland, Greece, Japan, the USA and Brazil.
https://themanfromatlantis.bandcamp.com/
Doors from 7:30.
https://events.humanitix.com/alec-ilyine-drift-lines
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