TBC#21 A-Sun Amissa and Lauren Mason performing Water Scores
About this Event
TBC#21 - Friday September 4th @ The Sacred Trinity Chuch, Salford
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A-SUN AMISSA & LAUREN MASON
performing 'Water Scores'
In Water Scores, Lauren Mason’s dark and experimental poetics respond to A-Sun Amissa’s tide-like currents of guitar, synth, sampled hydrophone, loops, and clarinet. This long-form piece ranges through deep ambience, crashing chaos and ebbing aftermath.
During this new work Mason explores the curses of corporate extraction and pollution on our planet’s water, and listens in, as water speaks back. Mason is best known as bassist with now-defunct existential sludge band Torpor, where she often wove her spoken word pieces through heavy soundscapes. She has been developing her poetic practice for many years and published her first book ‘Rust Canyon’ in 2025.
A-Sun Amissa are a group in a permanent state of metamorphosis, existing on the fringes of some kind of avant-rock, relentlessly pushing forward, shapeshifting and presenting their unique noise in new ways and on their own terms. A sound underpinned and overlaid with drones, moving in and around a diverse chasm of post-rock, melancholic drone, noise, doom and ambient sounds.
This collaboration was born of a mutual love for each other’s creative output, an aligning of the political and the aesthetic.
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" What they've created is nothing short of a masterpiece" - Distorted Sound
“There’s no clashing between the political and the aesthetic; more of a harmonious symmetry where they both speak for themselves in the most powerful of ways.” - The Sleeping Shaman
“The listener will find both hauntingly beautiful - the recitations themselves but also the music. The result is a wonderful collective thing.” - Veil of Sound
“It is beyond music, as much an art installation, maybe more than that too given the characters involved and the gravitas of the piece – it is an event.” - Ninehertz
“A full strength curse hurled back at the built world.” - Boolin Tunes
“It’s not often a piece of music within the avant-garde realm can be so spiritually resonant and meditative whilst shouting down the ear of its audience in defiance and solidarity.” - Everything is Noise
“But the detail… the detail makes it. Water Scores is rich in detail, and some may find the level of this difficult to process.” - Aural Aggravation
" Water Scores is more of a mediation. Mason’s words, a clarion call, and together with A-Sun Amissa’s hypnotic soundscapes, they light up a path that leads us to a brutal reality that urgently needs addressing." - Sun13
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DATE & VENUE
Friday 4th September, 7.30-10.30pm
The Sacred Trinity Church, Salford.
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TICKETS
£8 early bird via Eventbrite, until July 5th (+ applicable fees)
£10 advance via Eventbrite (+ applicable fees)
£12 on the door
There are a limited number of "pay as you feel" tickets available to anyone who is low or unwaged and wishes to join us.
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ABOUT THIS EVENT
The bands playing at TBC #21 will be finished by 10.30pm at the latest.
We will be accepting donations for Glossopdale Foodbank on the night of the show. The items that they particularly need at the moment are: tinned meat like chicken in white sauce or stewing steak; long life milk; tinned fruit; tinned custard; rice pudding; tinned sweetcorn; tinned vegetables; toilet paper; soap; shampoo and conditioner.
This event is fully accessible.
Parking is available on the surrounding streets and nearby carparks. The church is walking distance from both Manchester Victoria Station and Salford Central. More info here.
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Our events are, and will always be, safe spaces for trans people. As a collective we will actively support and advocate for the trans community. Trans people will be represented on our line ups and we hope in our audiences as well.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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