Haiku Salut announce one-off live show featuring robot orchestra followed by Lamp Show tour – new album There Is No Elsewhere due out in September
Haiku Salut
Announce one-off live show featuring robot orchestra
As part of The Hexagon Experiment
At Centre For Life In Newcastle on 10 August.
Share dates for September/October Lamp Show Tour
New album There Is No Elsewhere due out on 7 September via PRAH Recordings
Listen to new single “Cold To Crack The Stones” here
Following the news of their new album There Is No Elsewhere on PRAH Recordings on 7 September, Derbyshire trio Haiku Salut have announced a one-off live show featuring a robot orchestra and self-playing instruments – and a tour of their acclaimed Lamp Show (in which a stageful of vintage lamps are programmed to flash, fade and flicker in time to the music) to follow in the autumn.
The trio will be taking part in The Hexagon Experiment at the Centre For Life in Newcastle on August the 10th where they will be exploring creativity in the age of robotics and artificial intelligence.
There will be a Haiku Salut vs The Robots collaborative performance with the Robot Orchestra who shot to fame on the BBC documentary Can A Robot Replace Ed Sheeran?. They will also be presenting their latest experiments with self-playing instruments. Haiku Salut’s Sophie Barkerwood will then be joined in conversation by the University of Manchester’s Professor Danielle George, the creator of the Robot Orchestra project.
The Hexagon Experiment takes place as part of the Great Exhibition of the North 2018 in Newcastle and Gateshead over six consecutive Fridays with other performances and original commissions from Jane Weaver, Anna Meredith, Stealing Sheep and Lauren Laverne. Tickets are free, from https://getnorth2018.com/events/the-hexagon-experiment .
Haiku Salut consists of multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums, and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as “loopery and laptopery”. Influenced by the evocative film soundtracks of Yann Tiersen and Benoît Charest, the genre-melting electronica of early Múm, and the impressionistic writing of Haruki Murakami, the band released their debut album Tricolore in 2013, to critical acclaim, which was followed in 2015 by the equally acclaimed Etch And Etch Deep. They recently collaborated with Public Service Broadcasting for the track “They Gave Me A Lamp”, which featured on PSB’s top five album, Every Valley. This year’s release, There Is No Elsewhere, is Haiku Salut’s first album for neo-classical and electronica label, PRAH Recordings.
Haiku Salut’s forthcoming live dates are as follows:
Sun 15 Jul – Pickle Factory, London (PRAH Recordings/Kit Records Sunday Sessions)
Sun 29 Jul – Indietracks festival, Derbyshire
Sat 4 Aug – Once Upon A Hill festival
Fri 10 Aug – Centre For Life, Newcastle
Mon 27 Aug – Greenbelt festival
** Lamp Show Tour **
Thurs 20 Sep – Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds
Fri 21 Sep – The Great Eastern, Glasgow
Sat 22 Sep – More Music, Morecambe
Thurs 27 Sep – Deaf Institute, Manchester
Fri 28 Sep – Wirksworth Town Hall
Sat 29 Sep – Nottingham Contemporary
Tues 2 Oct – The Cube, Bristol
Wed 3 Oct – Hard of Hearing Centre, Oxford
Thurs 4 Oct – Norwich Arts Centre
Fri 5 Oct – St John On Bethnal Green, London
Sat 6 Oct – The Haunt, Brighton
** Lamp Show Tour ends **
Mon 31st Dec – Town Hall, Louth (with British Sea Power)
Tickets for the Lamp Show are available from http://www.haikusalut.com/