Jaminaround 2024 part 2

The core mission of Jaminaround is to draw audience and performer together in a memorable, intimate, spellbound moment, harnessing the resonant energy of the circular space to honour and witness the magic of exceptional performing artistry.

Here is your line-up for the 14th September;

Sahra Halgan is an iconic artist from Somaliland, formerly a British protectorate in the Horn of Africa, and an independent country since 1991, although unrecognised by the international community. In the 1980s, during the war with neighbouring Somalia, she earned her nickname 'Halgan'; the fighter, and her songs won the hearts of people forever. An improvised nurse at the front, defying tribal and family conventions, she sang to heal the wounded and encourage the fighters. Traditional poetry from centuries past, songs of celebration and dance, love songs, political demands - Sahra's voice deploys all its warmth, its ornaments, its irony or its seriousness, its mystery and its dignity. In response each instrument delivers all of its power in uncompromising simplicity: earthy, abrasive guitar riffs, solar drum grooves whose timbres combine tradition and modernity. An unprecedented alliance between Somali song and original rock.

Skylla is an alias of London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller. Goller is known for her bass and vocal work with Alabaster DePlume and an incredibly diverse résumé that includes performance and recording with Shabaka Hutchings, Rokia Traore, Melt Yourself Down, Sam Amidon, and even a brief moment with Paul McCartney. For her new album SKYLLUMINA, her International Anthem label debut, Goller expands upon the concept of her first solo album Skylla - de-tuned bass harmonics with layered voices - collaborating with a different drummer on each track. Despite its highly conceptual origins, the music is heavy with human emotion. Its dark washes of melody, contrapuntal percussion and the piercing, sibilant ice age siren song heard in Goller's powerfully feminine vocal arrangements invite comparisons to the likes of Björk and The Knife.

Mother Sky are a collective of musicians heralding from South Wales, Manchester and London. The band assembled remotely during the pandemic in 2021 to record a collection of obscure folk covers. They have since reunited as friends foremost and creative collaborators to write and record original music; their sound has been described as alt-folk ranging to post-rock. Individually, the collective have contributed to live scores, compositions and recordings by some of the music industry’s finest – Jon Hopkins, Philip Selway, and Emilíana Torrini, to name a few. Bass player Jon Thorne (founder member of the folk group Yorkston/Thorne/Khan) and drummer Luke Flowers (a long-standing member of The Cinematic Orchestra) both contribute magic to recordings and live shows. Innovative and boldly progressive, their debut single, The Land Beneath is a protest song, a response to the powers that govern us, to those who place greed above the welfare of people and the land beneath our feet. It’s a beautifully balanced offering – a tumultuous gothic wall of sound bolstered by guitar and drums…punctuated by the mesmerising vocals of Liela Moss and Thorne’s bass and beautiful fiddle lines…like someone rolled The Velvet Underground, Kate Bush and the Dirty Three into one. Gritty, transcendent and totally mesmerising.

Georgia Duncan is a singer-songwriter from South London. After releasing her debut EP The Light in 2021, she has been writing and recording her debut album due for release in late 2024. Collaborating with Harry Christelis on guitar, Yusuf Ahmed on drums and Ruth Goller on bass, the new record blends elements of folk and jazz while touching on a more alternative and ethereal world at times too. Developing the songs with the band while artist in residence at Laylow in May 2023, the album was recorded at the Lightship 95 studio inspired by records that centre the live performance of playing together and responding in real time to each other and the music.