Amina Claudine Myers + Nisha Ramayya + Ankna Arockiam/Nakul Krishnamurthy/Tom Mudd + feeo

Friday welcomes a packed bill of song, sound and poetry winding in and around threads in Black and Indian radical traditions, as well as explorations of the self, the collective, and beyond.

Opening the evening we welcome London based feeo, a relatively new project whose work explores the interior and exterior via their glorious songcraft, which is held together by a skeleton of doom-laden minimalism from Caius Williams. Commissioned for the festival, we present a new performance by Ankna Arockiam, Nakul Krishnamurthy, and Tom Mudd, which grapples with embodied knowledges of Carnatic music, deconstructing conventional modalities of performance and distilling microscopic movements and expressions that are intrinsic to the tradition.

After a short break we welcome Nisha Ramayya, who will be revisiting her hometown of Glasgow for a set of poetry following the recent publication of Fantasia, which takes Alice Coltrane’s experiments in jazz and spiritual community as a guide. The evening wraps up with the long-awaited debut Scottish performance from Amina Claudine Myers, who – after a fascinating career immersed in the blues, jazz and avant-garde – is still making vital work today.

This event is open to people of all ages.