The Glad Cafe
1006a Pollokshaws Road, G41 2HG
Will Samson presents his forthcoming album 'Sings Again' at the Glad.
With the use of his beloved tape machines, Samson has been exploring the spaces between electronic, folk and ambient music for well over a decade, with releases on labels such as Wichita Recordings / 12k and touring with artists such as Efterklang, S. Carey, The Album Leaf.
'Samson's meditative mix of folk and electronica has an almost spiritual dimension’ - UNCUT
'the kind of smooth, shimmering palette that indie dreams are made of' - Loud & Quiet
'A beautiful, hushed and contemplative record, the falsetto reminding you of Bon Iver, the intricacy and tenderness recalling kindred spirits such as Nils Frahm and Sufjan Stevens' - The Sunday Times
'A delicate, persuasive balance between ambience and formal song structures… Minimal keyboard patterns are infilled with pattering, glitchy beats... Choir–like wash, pedal steel and double bass bring further colour.' - MOJO
'Gently cascading acoustics, country lapsteel and glitchy, crunchy tick-tocks, it might not just provide for want of serenity but for want of sleep: all the components shuffling quietly under the crackle of tape-machines.' - The Line of Best Fit
As Yoker Moon, multi-instrumentalist producer, sound artist and DJ, Ross Prentice, experiments playfully, finding beauty in audio degradation and the intersection between glitch, serenity and rhythmic push and pull. [This can be heard in ‘Mood Studies: PS-20’ (Waxing Crescent Records), an exploration of a malfunctioning home keyboard as sound source that’s spun out into glacial textures, monolithic drone and horror soundtrack tension. More recently, ‘In The Labyrinth Of Your Love’ placed in Electronic Sound Magazine’s Albums Of The Year 2025) stating “You can feel a deep sense of connection to nature running throughout this outstanding album…”. A resident on Radio Buena Vida, his show ‘weird peace’ pulls from across genre in search of flow, serenity, cathartic release or all of the above.
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