Com Truise - http://soundcloud.com/com-truise
At Audio there is a fair sized crowd gathered for this splendid Ghostly International artist stopping over at TEG as part of his summer European tour. There’s much swaying and toe tapping and it’s a fair reaction - the live show demonstrates a unique blend of downtempo italo disco, miami sunsets and post dubstep breaks. Accompanied by a live drummer, 2 laptops and some colour clashing projections, this musician appears to effortlessly combine body twitching beats with a laidback synth ride.
Hannah Cohen - http://soundcloud.com/cooperative-music-spain/hannah-cohen-don-t-say
There are a bundle of female singer songwriters at TEG this year. Abi Wade with her cello, Nicole Atkins with her tales of transplanting herself across continents and Martha Paton doing it for Guildford. But Inside Brighton’s Unitarian Chapel this evening another worldly force has been engaged and is channeling it’s energy through Bella Union’s Hannah Cohen. The acoustics of the venue are perfect for the atmospheric minimalism of her work to unravel in front of a mainly civilisedly seated audience. Her ethereal vocals weave their way around delicately plucked strings, transporting the audience to another plane. Her set is based on her April time album ‘Child Bride’, initially formed through playing after hours at New York house parties, she covers those universal human themes of love and loneliness.
Francois & The Atlases - http://www.francoisandtheatlasmountains.com
This 4 piece started the year with new album E Volo Love and begin their festival tour with TEG. And they could be just another indie band. But get closer to the stage and there are 4 french musicians merging strains of keyboard with guitar sounds and drums often beaten by hand, in an imaginative and innovative way. This translates to Francois galavanting round the globe for influences that start with French chanson and end with Africa, taking in the Middle Eastern and the Western digitalisation of music. E Volo Love is their latest album that demonstrates this.
Trust - http://soundcloud.com/triangleboy/trust-candy-walls
Trust is Robert Alfons with collaborator Maya Postepski, they join the dots between New York with their initial releases ‘Candy Walls’ and ‘Bulbform’ having been on Brooklyn based label Sacred Bones and Toronto as they are now signed to Arts & Crafts. At TEG they play to a bustling Psychosocial giving out haunting beats and brooding vocals that come mixed with a swirl of smoke, blues lights and darkness, providing the ideal backdrop for tracks lifted from their long player TRST.
O Children - http://och4lyf.tumblr.com - http://soundcloud.com/deadlypeople
It’s getting close to midnight on the final day of TEG, it seems a shame that the levels of new music will slip back down to their baseline in a few days. But before it’s over there is hope at the Hope. O Children take to the stage the packed out queued in venue and they have a mixture of intrigue and hooks landing somewhere between Joy Division and The Killers, it’s great way to round things off.