Bonded — Sound of Belfast 2024

Name: Bonded — Sound of Belfast 2024
Start: 2024-11-07T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-07T22:30:00+01:00
Location: Oh Yeah Music Centre

Schedule

Thu Nov 07 2024 at 08:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Oh Yeah Music Centre | Belfast, NI

Bonded is a new night in honour of the recording craft. The request is simple; sit back and listen. Each month we will select an LP to listen to in a safe and attentive group environment. The musician behind it will be present on the night.
This is an event designed to slow the listening process down. To delve into the details and grow closer to the art of the recorded format. First up in the series is the latest release The Dance Hall by LMINL aka Deci Gallen (The Jane Bradfords).
LMINL's debut album, The Dance Hall, features sampled sounds from his family home; a former parochial house attached to a disused dance hall. Old instruments that had shaped his love of music were crafted into digital forms. The record was conceived and written during the most tumultuous time of his career when, in the midst of a global pandemic, LMINL experienced catastrophic hearing loss as the result of a tumour.
After losing most of his hearing, he found himself in the liminal space between the hearing world and the deaf world, having to work in completely new ways to compensate for his new normal. Pandemic unemployed, going deaf and missing his family, he set about making music to soundtrack his childhood.
A broken and unsalvageable piano was painstakingly sampled and refurbished. A music box, given to his mum on her wedding day, not only provided sounds, but became the album cover. With these instruments, Lminl gathered a musical palette. He was inspired by old home videos and photographs. The result is an ethereal album with lyrics that look inwards for their strength.