Chrysanths + Adam Stafford / 15.10 / The Glad Cafe, Glasgow

Name: Chrysanths + Adam Stafford / 15.10 / The Glad Cafe, Glasgow
Start: 2024-10-15T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-15T22:30:00+01:00
Location: The Glad Cafe

Schedule

Tue Oct 15 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Glad Cafe | Glasgow, SC

The Glad Cafe presents:
Chrysanths
+ Adam Stafford
Tues 15th October
www.thegladcafe.co.uk
Chrysanths (Modern Studies front woman Emily Scott) launches her lush orchestral LP ‘Leave No Shadow’.
Emily Scott has led experimental folk-tinged chamber-pop outfit Modern Studies for a decade, releasing four critically acclaimed albums on Fire. Scott’s style is nostalgic, cool and poetic, and she has been described simultaneously as out of her time, and timeless. A regular on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 6, her writing typically displays distinctive odd time-signatures, nostalgic lyrics, and expressive and intuitive instrumentation. Scott has recently joined the fold at Chemical Underground as Chrysanths, with LP ‘Leave No Shadow’, a set of reflective, down-tempo piano songs with string orchestra, out in September.
Initially written as a solo piano project, and then expanded to its full orchestral potential, ‘Leave No Shadow’ has classic songwriting at its core.
“Emily Scott’s voice is a beautiful thing. It flies like Sandy Denny, but has the wounded intimacy of Beth Gibbons and the precision of Christine McVie” (MOJO)
“Her voice is cool, clear and unsentimental, with echoes of some of the great English stylists, from Sandy Denny to Jacqui McShee” (UNCUT)
Adam Stafford is an award winning filmmaker and musician from Falkirk. He has released in excess of fifteen albums and EPs since 2010 on labels such as Edinburgh's Song by Toad, Gerry Loves Records and Kingfisher Bluez in North America. His varied musical styles incorporate Soul-Pop, contemplative Folk, Minimalist Modern Classical and Avant-garde Electronica. In 2018 Stafford received praise for his double LP 'Fire Behind The Curtain' which explored themes of his struggles with mental health and utilised a cinematic, orchestral pallet. Clash Magazine considered it one of twenty of the best Scottish albums of the new millennium in 2020.
Praise for Stafford and previous LP 'Trophic Asynchrony' (2021)
"With its layered blend of glitchy bleepology, soothing loops, distorted vocals, delicate melodies and glistening piano, Trophic Asynchrony is meticulous minimalism with the kitchen sink on top". 4/5 - The Scotsman
"So different from his previous two albums, which illustrates his far-reaching talent, Trophic Asynchrony is circular, ever-mutating, expressive, shows rather than tells in the warp and weft of a sound palette which has its roots in the recherché traditions of Moondog, Terry Riley, Masoyoshi Fujita et al, rather than the waters of folk; an octet of tracks to soundtrack the societal confusion and informational overload of political chaos, plague and ecological precarity." 8.4/10 - Backseat Mafia,
"He is crafting filigree melodies. These are underpinned by cavernous synths. Stafford then uses lighter tones to add shading and detail and to create something awe inspiring." - God is in The TV