Maria Somerville + Luki
Entry Requirements: Over 18s only
Maria Somerville draws on folk forms alongside post-punk, traditional Irish motifs, starry eyed pop and hypnotic drones to create wholly original music that is borne of her roots in Connemara, Western Ireland.
Her debut album All My People (self-released on 1 March and distributed by Rush Hour), channels the wilderness of the Irish landscape through dense, ethereal soundscapes, bare boned percussion and a heady electronic undertow, interspersed with ghostly vocals that are ever present and all encompassing, like crystalline glints of sunshine peeking through dark stormy clouds.
Her enigmatic and enthralling live show comes in both solo and band shape, born of ties with fellow Irish maverick Davy Kehoe (Wah Wah Wino).
'with lazily strummed electric guitar and full-bodied organ chords shining through the lo-fi production like a milky sun, she waltzes through the shoegazing ballad with wonderment' — The Guardian
'Somerville weaves delicate vocals atop minimal percussion and traditional instrumentals, to create a woozy sonic dreamscape you won’t want to wake up from' — The Vinyl Factory
'gorgeous, hazy, distant-but-intimate dream pop' — Gorilla vs Bear
Luki is a singer, pianist and synth player based in Glasgow. She began her musical career by accident (in her late twenties), after making a soundscape for a toilet at a party and realising, quite suddenly, that everything before had been a mistake.
Luki’s music sounds like it should be in a mysterious, enrapturing film – it’s narrative driven, evocative, and with delicate touches of the surreal (Pink Wafer). Her ‘witchy soprano, elegant piano and synth create a sense of time and place out of joint, as if Delia Derbyshire and Brian Eno set up shop in an Edwardian parlour’ (Stewart Smith, The List)