KYLVER + DEXTRO // Cluny 2 Newcastle

Name: KYLVER + DEXTRO // Cluny 2 Newcastle
Start: 2026-04-04T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Cluny

Schedule

Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Cluny | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Kylver will perform their latest album The Gobi in full at an upcoming live show, presenting the record as a complete, immersive experience.
Newcastle’s, Kylver are an instrumental progressive/doom/post-metal band known for their expansive compositions and cinematic approach. The Gobi, their third studio album, is a concept record inspired by the vast, hostile landscapes and mythology of the Gobi Desert. Across four long-form tracks, the album blends crushing low-end riffs with hypnotic organ lines, dynamic rhythmic shifts, and wide atmospheric passages.
Performed live in its entirety, The Gobi unfolds as a continuous narrative, drawing listeners through frozen sands, ancient nomadic lore, and mythic imagery, including references to the Donghu tribe and the legendary Allghoi-Khorkhoi. The band’s use of vintage organ and layered instrumentation adds a ritualistic, immersive quality to the performance, expanding on Kylver’s already formidable live sound.
This full-album performance offers audiences a rare chance to experience The Gobi as it was intended — loud, enveloping, and unbroken.
Dextro is the work of Scottish musician and producer Ewan Mackenzie, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (also the drummer in the UK rock band Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs). Having been released through Border Community (James Holden, Nathan Fake) Groenland Records (Neu, Harmonia, Eno), and remixed by Clark (Warp), The Village Orchestra and Dane Law, among others, the music of Dextro has routinely pushed the boundaries of ambient, electronic and drone genres.
Dextro has also been performed live alongside artists such as Loscil, Adam Betts, Nathan Fake and Amon Tobin, where live percussion, guitar and synth drones interchange to create what commentators have described as "akin to climbing and descending from a mountain" (Muzik Dizcovery) and a " rich interstellar wonder: an ambiguous dreamzone awash with arresting visuals and transcendental possibilities" (Narc Magazine).