Fresh Thursday // Yama Warashi + Daniel Inzani

Name: Fresh Thursday // Yama Warashi + Daniel Inzani
Start: 2025-03-06T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-06T22:00:00+00:00
Location: Cobalt Studios CIC

Schedule

Thu Mar 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cobalt Studios CIC | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Fresh Thursday is a unique regular event that showcases new music alongside a home-cooked meal. For more information about how this event works please read the info at the bottom of this event carefully. Thank you. If you have a dietary requirement you can indicate it by selecting one of the free add-ons when purchasing your ticket.
Please note we are unable to offer refunds. The advertised start time is when our doors will open, generally music starts one hour after doors.
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Yama Warashi
Japanese artist Yoshino Shigihara's solo project. She had a Cobalt residency in June 2024, and collaborated with Me Lost Me, John Hope, Sami and other local musicians and artists. Yama Warashi means Mountain spirit.
She is releasing a new piano solo EP from PRAH Recordings in Feb 2025.
Also, she is working on new electric solo music. Influenced by Moons, Stones, and mushrooms.
Gentle psychedelia with a wish for a peaceful world. She is playing the electric sets with brand-new music at Cobalt.
www.yamawarashi.com
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Daniel Inzani
Self-taught pianist and composer Daniel Inzani has been a pivotal figure on the Bristol alternative music scene for more than a decade. He leads a neoclassical chamber quartet Spindle Ensemble, co-curates Hidden Notes Festival in Stroud, and he’s worked with a baffling array of outfits, playing Ethiopian funk, Indonesian gamelan, rocksteady, 1950s-style exotica and post rock, as well as working closely with fellow maverick musicians Alabaster dePlume and Cosmo Sheldrake.
His assorted projects have led to a prolific discography, performances worldwide and a singular compositional voice; born from extensive experimentation with live ensembles and his idiosyncratic approach to music theory, informed by his studies of mathematics and passion for impressionist era music.
After 2 decades of recording, touring and composing as a collaborator and band leader, he gathered a trusted set of skilled improvisers and virtuoso players to record his first major solo release Selected Worlds, exploring the very different sides to his musical personality across 3 contrasting but connected vinyl LPs. The critically acclaimed triple album was co-released by Hidden Notes Records and Tardigrade Records in September 2024, receiving a 5 star review in The Guardian where it was listed as the contemporary album of the month.
“There is a narrative logic to Inzani’s compositions that is compelling, heart-rending and gloriously disturbing” - Contemporary Album of the Month - The Guardian
danielinzani.co.uk
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More about FRESH Thursdays...
FRESH happens every Thursday during our open seasons. It is a platform to bring you fresh new music served up alongside a homecooked plant based meal, board games and candles. It can be hard to get people out to hear music that they don’t know yet & this is why we decided to offer dinner as an incentive to try something new, these gigs are cosy, communal nights and often you get to hear completely new music for the very first time.
The music varies across multiple genres but it is usually fairly gentle listening type music & well suited to a relaxed Thursday night. The gigs are seated and during the sets the audience is very music focused & quiet with time to chat in between the sets and at the end when we keep the bar open.
We cook the food from scratch usually and dinner is well suited to lover of vegetables and wholesome cooking, it's usually something like a dhal, veggie chilli, tacos, roast veg or similar, our base line is vegan sometimes with veggie options. We can cater for nut/gluten free meals, but nuts & gluten are used in the kitchen so if you have serious allergies please bear that in mind.
Doors at 7pm, we aim to get dinner ready by 8pm and will bring it to you when its ready… music usually starts around 8pm, sometimes later if it’s a busy night for food (we are a tiny team) and we aim to have the music finished by 10-10.15 pm. We can only guarantee dinner with advance tickets and these days we cap dinner at 60 meals and the food tickets do often sell out.
We hope/think it's obvious that quality music and dinner for £10 is all about culture & community and that these events cost us money… If you can afford to purchase a higher level ‘Cobalt supporters‘ ticket we appreciate the additional help towards costs very much.