masa nazzal + lene otis fin + }ï{ (papillion)

Glasgow's Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council, or GLARC for short, have been producing rigorous cassette-based periodicals for 10 years now. Acting as a springboard for the dazzling academic careers of such luminaries as Still House Plants, Quinie, Able Noise, Max Syedtollan and Han, among others, they pride themselves on producing high impact globally distributed research output. As part of their 10 year anniversary with concerts in London and Glasgow they are also coming to Brussels with a recent batch of promising scholars:

https://glarc.bandcamp.com/

masa nazzal

masa nazzal AND ILYAS TITAOU - Masa spent three months working in Bihać, Bosnia between October 2023 - January 2024 with a no-borders activist group  where she collected testimonies of violence happening to people on the move to seek asylum in the European Union. It is in this space where Masa and Ilyas first met. Ilyas was staying at the transit camp and Masa was doing aid distribution work, when Ilyas spotted a guitar in Masa's hand, pointed at it, grabbed it and started playing. This is where their friendship and sonic journeys began. Her release on GLARC, Slovenia Inshallah, is an experiment in what borderless solidarities, borderless friendships,

sounds like. It is an abolitionist sonic ethnography, through the contemporary violence of the EU border regime. She will bring a version of this mixtape to life at Les Atelier Claus

lene otis fin

Lene Otis Fin - lene otis fin - Lene de Montaigu, Otis Jordan and Finn Rosenbaum are a trio of musicians who met in Glasgow and performed throughout its outdoor spaces and with its scrapheap of found objects. They captured their improvisations and collaborative pieces on GLARC 0000000000000023 before parting ways and moving to different cities. The tape interweaves the sounds of Finn’s own bells, which he forged in Cessnock behind an abandoned swimming pool, with found objects and various instruments such as harmonium, french horn, clarinet and analogue synthesizer. After performing in Cafe Oto, throughout Italy and elsewhere, they went quiescent for a bit, and are excited to re-emerge in Brussels.

}Ï{ (Papillion)

}ï{ is Louise Boghossian and Romain Vasset and Phone's Paintings (GLARC 000000000000024) was their debut release. It's a record made from phone recordings of their daily lives which was then weaved together with the jogwheel of a CDJ and some other clandestine processing in France during the summer of 2023 where they also swam in a beautiful river. The result is a shifting and unpredictable collage of eerie and gorgeous sounds threaded through with the sonic imprint of the phone's recorder.

DJ activity will come from BRUNNERA (Kit Records/ Peder Mannerfelt Produktion) and GLARC DJs (Brunnera + Lanyard)