ISOL-AID FESTIVAL #27

EVERYBODY RIGHT TO GO?

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ISOL-AID MUSIC FESTIVAL #27
Saturday 19th September 2020

A socially (media) distanced music festival

Feat (in alphabetical order):

ALI ADRIANO, ANATOLE, BOY PABLO (NORWAY), BEN ABRAHAM, BRAILLE FACE, DIIMPA, ELENA DAKOTA, GRACE FERGUSON, HAPPY AXE, JFDR (ICELAND), KCIN, NIK NAVY, OKLOU (FRANCE), R.P. DOWNIE, RIVER BOY, RYAN FENNIS, WOODES

ACCESSIBLE ALL AREAS from 8pm via isolaidfestival.com

ELIZA HULL, GAELYNN LEA (USA), JAMES HOLT (UK), RUTH PATTERSON (UK)

Drop what you were doing (let’s be real, it was bingeing some telly – don’t blame you!) and get hyped because ISOL-AID 27 is extra juicy and extra special!

This week’s ISOL-AID is very lovingly curated by SPIRIT LEVEL – an artist-run music label initially started by Tim Shiel and Wally de Backer, two long time friends and collaborators. Tim now heads the label solo in addition to being a fabulous individual, a passionate champion of innovative and independent music, an electronic musician and broadcaster for Double J (& triple j).

Starting off our 27th Sunday sesh and kicking off the Spirit Level party will be BEN ABRAHAM – an Aussie currently in LA who is on a journey to stardom having collaborated with artists like Kesha, Macklemore and Demi Lovato, this is one talented dude. GRACE FERGUSON is a pianist, composer, sound designer and piano teacher who is interested in creating works that interlace narrative, movement, image & music. ALI ADRIANO’s unique self-taught bedroom productions have been described as “the beach late at night” – evocative and nostalgic, we can’t wait for this performance.

Up next is DIIMPA – an avant composer, soundscape weaver and sonic wizard from Melbourne. NIK NAVY is a queer popster who crafts sad songs of love and resilience. ELENA DAKOTA drops in from Adelaide with her intimate and deceptively simple folk songs that charm. KCIN finds inspiration in both electronic and digital elements and draws from the natural world to create monolithic soundscapes. R.P DOWNIE is wildly prolific and endlessly creative, creating outside the lines pop. The nation’s capital provides us next performer HAPPY AXE – a multi instrumentalist and music polymath. RIVER BOY is the project of Narayama Johnson who weaves natural and electronic sounds to create a unique writing and production style. RYAN FENNIS is self described as “too slippery to categorise” other than to say he’s expected to be unexpected. ANATOLE’s electronica combines arrangements and laptops to create something special.

We trip quickly to Iceland to visit JFDR (ICELAND)- a dizzying blender of smokey electronics, wobbling harmonies and otherworldly sounds. WOODES draws you in with mysterious echoes and clever production, a young musician but already a polished professional. OKLOU is a French singer and producer who creates future-facing pop. The Spirit Level curation’s penultimate act is BRAILLE FACE who will be participating in a live Q&A before playing a set and then things wrap up with BOY PABLO – heartfelt indie pop from a young Norwegian-Chileno.

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Right after Spirit Level’s curation, we are very excited to present ACCESSIBLE ALL AREAS –  An accessible live music performance featuring disabled & deaf musicians from around the world. People with a disability are too often underrepresented in music and the music industry. Accessible All Areas mini online music festival inverts this, showcasing incredible talent from across the globe by contemporary musicians who are Deaf and disabled.

ELIZA HULL will be kicking off AAA and if you don’t know about her you soon will – a musical artist known for her stirring lyrics, and haunting emotive vocals.

GAELYNN LEA (USA) won NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016. Gaelynn Lea has appeared in several major festivals over the years, including SXSW, Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Reykjavik Arts Festival.

Manchester-born solo artist, and multi-instrumentalist, JAMES HOLT (UK) has long been championed by music industry giants, such as legendary producer Brian Eno. An artist of intense honesty, singer and composer RUTH PATTERSON (UK) bares her soul with courage, conviction and vulnerability. Growing up in the moorlands of North Yorkshire, Ruth inherited a romantic melancholia equally from the land and from the music of such pioneering pop dreamers as Kate Bush and Nick Drake.

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And if this MAMMOTH Isol-Aid 27 line-up isn’t juicy enough we are HEAPS EXCITED to let you know about our partnership with the best tasting non-alcoholic beer in the universe, HEAPS NORMAL.

Grab a case of Heaps Normal, use promo code ISOL-AID at checkout, and 100% profits ($27) from every case will go to support your favourite festival.

This isn’t about not drinking (necessarily) this is about creating your own normal when it comes to mindful drinking. www.heapsnormal.com

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We love that our festival is free to watch, but we do ask online attendees to help support the artists if you can. 100% of whatever you donate will go directly to the Isol-Aid artists and their teams.

As you know, the loss of touring and live performance income has caused financial strain and even strife for many in our music community. Throwing in even what you’d normally pay for a beer or two at the show will make a huge difference to these acts. And we’ll be eternally grateful, too!

You can look good and feel amazing. Artist donations, merch and feel good vibes from isolaidfestival.com

We Stand With Dan,

Team Isol-Aid x 

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