Tara Clerkin Trio + chizu nnamdi

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We're stoked to welcome Bristol's Tara Clerkin Trio back to The Glad Cafe on Sunday 19th November with special guest chizu nnamdi!

'Drifting from dubby minimalism to smudged acid jazz, Tara’s stark and tuneful voice acts as the vehicle for her concise poetic lyricism. The group coalesce disparate influences into a cohesive sound, reflecting a romantic view of a familiar world.' — THE WIRE

Tara Clerkin Trio are Pat Benjamin, Sunny Joe Paradisos and Tara Clerkin, three musicians involved in a number of cult Bristol bands over the years before confidently settling down in triangle formation. Their time has been richly spent: continuous writing and recording, extensive live performances across Europe and Japan, a cultivation of local and more far-flung artistic connections (musical and otherwise), and a monthly NTS show that, through the voice of others, speaks most obviously to their own unorthodox interests.

Not far off two years from the day, Bristol's Tara Clerkin Trio return to World of Echo and the EP format for a five song collection of quixotic, emotional redolence titled 'On the Turning Ground'. https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-turning-ground

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chizu nnamdi is the semi-pseudonym of Glasgow-based Nigerian artist Chizu Anucha. His music is built of fleeting fragments, merging blurry half-remembered anecdotes that skip the details but remain hyper focussed on residual feelings and pockets of intense fixation.

Strung somewhere beneath an amber-tinged golden hour glow, his hands grip the sky and pluck remedies to suit his current mood. Where sensibilities cross he finds comfort in choppy, broken instrumentals and lusciously chorus-swelled guitar tones which draw influence from ambient folk, downtempo jazz, outsider music, shoegaze, archive reclamation, voice notes from pals, field recordings, et al.