softshadow

@softshadow____

live looping sax and spoken word queer witchy ritual music London UK dm for booking
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From @improvsgreatesthits at @thegeorgetavern Played with some spectacular musicians, I'll be back :) @oscar_drums01
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23 days ago
@ratrunrecords x @skronkstagram crossover!! I LOVED THIS SHOW so wonderful to see so much community in one space. Thank you for coming out I love you all ❤️ long live DIY Photo/video @ievavaiti @tint0rnette @patgrimm Other bands!! Check them out! SIFT @dataswamp_ @mptlmicroplastics @weareleadashtray
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4 months ago
. . This Saturday 10th January @waitingroomn16 we have a ripping line up to get 2026 underway the right way! . . /event/684929/ . @skronkstagram @softshadow____ @ratrunrecords @weareleadashtray @mptlmicroplastics . . #improvised #noisemusic #diytilwedie #recordlabel #ratrunrecords
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4 months ago
Noise/Drone heads, check this out :) my NOISEMAS set is out on Clipping Room's bandcamp Sound Engineer - Isa ferri @iklectikartlab
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4 months ago
10th Jan we team up with @ratrunrecords to bring you a line up of epic proportions. @mptlmicroplastics @softshadow____ @weareleadashtray @dataswamp_ and #SIFT at @waitingroomn16 Go grab your ticket to not be disappointed, link in bio. There will be some door tickets and NOTAFLOF. @petemcpartlan @nathangreywater
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4 months ago
A journey through the lunar alchemy lab from the future through photos taken by me and @vilius.vingras at @ubiskes3 , Lithuania. The magical Grimoire as well as some parts of the lab will be present at @whichwitchcollective  exhibition at the Crypt Gallery opening 13th November, in a wonderful collaboration with @softshadow____ with immersive ritual soundscape. I am deeply proud of this work and would super love your support there! I will be present by - ○ Performing on the 13th Nov, 6:30 PM. no tickets needed, just show up on the day.  Poetry Spells: Offerings to the Wound Howling prayers. These sensuous whispers made flesh with our collective pulse. Invocations of protection - the resonance of salt and honey.  A poetry reading spellcasting loving justice for the outcasted ones - human and non-human, witches and ancestors. ○ And by facilitating a ritual-workshop on the 16th Nov, ticketed event. Book via link in bio. Join a ritual-workshop exploring alchemy through writing, somatic practice and speculative fiction, open to all levels. At the start of the workshop you will be guided through a meditative journey involving storytelling and visualisation. You will connect to your mythological self - maybe a hybrid creature, a dragon, a vampire, a queer deity. From this state, you will offer support to another part of you that needs it - a part of you that maybe feels lonely, unloved or outcasted. You will then be invited to write a story in whatever format suits you, inspired by your experience, with invitational prompts and with the awareness that our poems and stories can act as spells that transform our future.This story will become your alchemical talisman - helping you retrieve and integrate hidden selves, trapped and shamed by the cultures of patriarchy and empire. Who will you become through the blessings of a miraculous alchemy? #ritual #queerritual #queerness #witch #queerwitch #queercoven #animism #embodiedecologies #ecology #storytelling
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6 months ago
'And through this collective refuge into awe, some of them - adapted. They turned, fully, into night pollinators. they became...moon bees. Without a bee queen the bees are lost, but they found a queen in the shapeshifting moon, and through such embodied, visceral worship, their color turned silver. And so they learned how to weave moonlight into their honey - an elixir now soothing to all the people, creatures and magicians made and unmade by night. ' Miraculous Alchemies (Turn my lead to silver) is a magical floating Grimoire within an immersive alchemy laboratory from the future. Made from old honeycombs, moonlight honey, fur offerings and hand made paper with plants from the local forest, the Grimoire holds a story about symbiosis, adaptation and multispecies ancestrality. In short... a love story across timelines. You can commune and receive an alchemical blessing from the Grimoire and its story woven through the magnificent soundscapes of @softshadow____ at the exhibition organized by @whichwitchcollective opening 13th of November, at the Crypt, London. Hopefully see you there - the exhibition will last for a week. Details about spellcasting rituals and performances coming soon... pictures by the wonderful @vilius.vingras laboratory created at @ubiskes3 residency this summer
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6 months ago
A warm invite to my sonic ritual event in collaboration with @antiuniversitynow and @softshadow____ , happening at @houseofannetta (and also celebrating the end of my residency there! ) The event is free, but limited spots are available - so please book at the link in my bio! At the event I will also publish and sell my first zine, in collaboration with @m14om14o and @houseofannetta - so you can take home with you the maps and the stories birthed by them. About the event: Exploring the intersection between psychography, spatial justice and ecology, we invite you to our sonic ritual of deep listening and speculative mapping. Building hope into the bones of the city are a series of maps of a future London, where you will encounter new and re-framed institutions, social centres, symbiotic environments and time keeping technologies. Inspired by solar punk worldbuilding and folk futurism, the maps include and acknowledge the voices, stories and spaces of the non-human, ancestral pathways, shrines and house spirits, whispers from ruins, migration routes, shelters and sanctuaries. You will travel through them as you listen to a live soundscape of saxophone loops from @softshadow____ and poetic storytelling from me. To open the portal to this future timeline, you will be invited at the beginning of the event to join a collective guided journey, where we will use divination and psychogeography prompts to connect, listen and leave offerings to the house. You may use movement, writing, drawing and resting to interpret the prompts - into your own rhythm and according to your desires and needs. Building hope into the bones of the city invites you to dream architectures of awe, and public spaces collaborating with our creative longings, our sharpest grief and the needs of our deepest vulnerability. Can't wait to see you there!
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7 months ago
Out now - Labyrinths: Live at the Bath House On all streaming platforms and soon on YouTube Featuring: @alekspod_ on drums @sink.wav on the bass guitar @softshadow____ on saxophone Special thanks to @grimbletron for sound @deniz_kavalali for camera @puzzlefactory_sound_studio for mastering @_subsignal for lighting @litjamsgram of @arcussounds for stage management And of course @the.bath.house.hw for hosting Shout out to @c_ndl_ and @sink.wav for the 10/10 support #progressiverock #progrock #livemusic #mathrock #instrumental #toolband #themarsvolta #oceansize #threetrappedtigers #stevereich #timesignatures #rockmusic #alternativerock #metal
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9 months ago
St John's in Waterloo was gorgeous, and I had the opportunity to share a set with @nwakke and @abulmogard for @waterloofestiv Thanks to @iklectikartlab for putting on a deep and provoking night of music and that sweet two tone lighting I also had a great time facilitating Pauline Oliveros' sound fishes (1992) with an audience of about 200 people x Photos: @carlnorthcore
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10 months ago
IKLECTIK (@iklectikartlab ) as part of the Waterloo Festival 2025 presents: Abul Mogard (@abulmogard ) + NWAKKE (@nwakke ) + softshadow (@softshadow____ ). An evening of evocative sound, collective listening, and embodied expression. Abul Mogard,​ the acclaimed alter ego of Guido Zen, returns with a rare solo performance. His atmospheric compositions have been presented at Centre Pompidou, Berlin Atonal, and Union Chapel with the London Contemporary Orchestra, and featured in films by Ridley Scott and Shane Meadows. NWAKKE unveils a one-off solo performance created specially for the festival. Fusing field recordings, improvisation and movement, NWAKKE (Kendra Chiagoro-Noel) crafts intimate sonic worlds rooted in storytelling, sensation and emotional resonance. softshadow presents: ‘Deep Sea Sound Fishes’ a playful, participatory experience inspired by Pauline Oliveros. Audience members are invited to ‘fish’ for sounds using voice, gesture, and imagination. SATURDAY 12 JULY 8PM (doors 7:30PM) St John’s Waterloo stjohnswaterloo.org/wf2025 Ticket link in bio.
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10 months ago
parcels, the music video, is now out on Youtube! link in bio Filmed by Akinsola Lawanson Edited by Akinsola Lawanson @_akinsola Starring June Kuhn @ratrunrecords
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11 months ago