(press release from festival)
SUNN O)))
+ Hildur Guðnadóttir
Tuesday 21 March 2017 / Barbican Hall / 20:00
Tickets £22.50 – 27.50 plus booking fee
American
drone metal masters Sunn O))) will make their Barbican debut next
March, bringing their arrhythmic blend of extreme metal, drone, ambient,
noise and minimalistic music to the Centre as part of the Convergence
Festival. Their music can be described as very slow, with distorted
guitars, and the emphasis is on texture rather than rhythm. Sunn O)))
was formed by core members Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson in 1998
and the band’s name is a reference to the Sunn amplifier brand. Over the
years they have worked with a varying cast of collaborators including
Attila Csihar, Ulver, Nurse With Wound, Julian Cope, Scott Walker and
Oren Ambarchi to name but a few.
Support comes from classically
trained Icelandic singer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir who has played
and recorded with bands such as Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle and Múm, as
well as her solo project Lost in Hildurness and has previously toured
with Animal Collective and Sunn O))). Guðnadóttir also wrote the
arrangements for the Wildbirds & Peacedrums session as part of the
Barbican’s Nils Frahm curated marathon weekend Possibly Colliding in
July 2016.
Produced by the Barbican in association with Convergence
On sale to Barbican Members on Thursday 1 December
Tickets on general sale on Friday 2 December
Find out more www.convergence-london.com/2017/event/sunn-o-hildur-gudnadottir
