Patricia Wolf Brings Yarrow to The Old Church, Stoke Newington on 6th June

Music

The Portland field recordist and ambient composer touches down in London for a rare live appearance.

Portland’s Patricia Wolf – musician, sound designer, field recordist, and the quietly extraordinary mind behind Yarrow, the ninth edition of our very own Music To Watch Seeds Grow By cassette series – is coming to London. And she’s playing The Old Church in Stoke Newington. Which, if you’ve ever been to The Old Church in Stoke Newington, you’ll appreciate, is exactly the right kind of room for exactly this kind of music.

Yarrow – if you missed our premiere of the opening track ‘Abiotic Factors’ – is an album that grew out of Wolf’s residency at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, where she spent a summer embedded with ecologists studying plants, pollinators, and the long, slow drama of biological negotiation happening just beneath the visible world. It is, in other words, not ambient music in the vague, diffuse sense. It is ambient music with a research bibliography.

Wolf works with electronics, voice, and field recordings to build non-linear compositions that alter your sense of time. Melody and repetition spiral inward. Textures accumulate. For this live show she’s picked a deconsecrated Victorian church,

Joining her on the night are Pavel Doronin and Momen. The event is presented by REAL.

Doors are at 7PM. Tickets are on DICE. Yarrow seeds, presumably, optional but encouraged.

Patricia Wolf | The Old Church Stoke Newington, London | Saturday 6th June, 7PM Supporting: Pavel Doronin, Momen | Presented by REAL

Tickets via DICE