Simon is a cellist & composer based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Border Land is “an album of the elements. An attempt to make friends & understand an ailing and dying planet”.
Find the live Lockdown Session on Deepbed Radio.
Find more information about the album on Bandcamp.
" airy and mystical harmonies float in unknown zones, feeling more like undiscovered nebulae, stretching out over eternity and crossing infinite divides" Fluid Radio
“highly evocative work of the otherworldly transforms the recognizable into something mysterious, even on occasion, the supernatural” Monolith Cocktail
“electro-orchestral drone-scapes of, by turns, gauzy intimacy and soaring grandeur.” Mojo
Artwork on the album by Ann-Margreth Bohl.
More Events
Installation
11th - 20th September
Pioneers in the use of light, sound and technology, Squidsoup’s artworks combine physical and dynamic digital spaces with novel and intuitive forms of interaction to produce responsive and beguiling environments.
Talk
Saturday 19th September 3pm
Travels Over Feeling, the result of extensive research by author Richard King, brings together the largely unseen handwritten scores, lyrics, photos, letters and drawings found in both Arthur’s archive and other private collections, alongside wide-ranging original interviews with his collaborators, contemporaries, family and friends.
Talk
Sunday 20th September 1.30pm
In Everything We Do is Music, Elizabeth Alker shines a light on the fertile ground that exists between the borders of classical music and pop. She showcases the innovators of the former and their fans and collaborators in the latter, and explores how together these artists challenged the notion that such musical worlds are mutually exclusive.
Live Performance
Friday 25th September 8pm
Special guest Kevin Figes, a British saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, composer and filmmaker based in Bristol.
Live performance
Saturday 26th September 7:30pm
Brunel Goods Shed
13 piece ensemble with 9 saxophones, led by Will Gregory, explore the canon of influential American composer Moondog (aka The Viking of Sixth Avenue), the blind American musician and composer, who influenced everyone from Leonard Bernstein to Philip Glass.
Artist Talks
Tuesday 29th September
Join us for our 10th Pecha Kucha Night at SVA on Tuesday September 29th. 8 visual artists present their work in the brilliant 20/20 format : 20 images / 20 seconds per image - an exciting, generous, tender, performative, adrenalin rush dive into each artist’s practice with a full and engaged audience in the bar at SVA with mc Nick Grellier.
Live Performance
Friday 2nd October 7.30pm
Tokyo-based Japanese Tap Dancer and scrap metal percussionist returns to Stroud after her sold out show here last November.