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SUMMARY:Will Samson
LOCATION:TRAFO
DESCRIPTION:“Will Samson is dead”. These were the direct words heard du
 ring a six hour ayahuasca ceremony in April 2024. After many years of cont
 emplation\, research and careful thought\, Will Samson partook in the plan
 t medicine tradition\, practised by indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin
  for hundreds of years. One of the most powerful psychedelic plants on ear
 th\, the ceremony strongly alters perception\, offering what some say is e
 quivalent to years worth of psychotherapy.\n\n Not to be romanticised\, th
 is largely dark and terrifying experience provided invaluable insights –
  with the recovery and processing gradually unfolding over the proceeding 
 one and a half years\, during the creation ofSings Again.\n\n Amongst many
  powerful visions\, including conversations with his late father and memor
 ies of earliest childhood\, Samson was taken to his own funeral.\n\n “In
  the months afterwards\, I truly did feel as though something significant 
 in me had died...and then through psychotherapy I was able to process the 
 experience and also learn how to move forward with an emphasis on creating
  from a new internal space.”\n\n Where lyrics were often shrouded in cry
 ptic language\, Samson now sings us a raw and direct insight into the most
  vulnerable parts of himself.\n\n Written over the course of two years\, t
 he album was mainly recorded in isolation during a long stay residencyin t
 he Portuguese region of Alentejo\, at a small rural village between Lisbon
  and the Spanish border.\n\n Musically inspired by the early works of Bjor
 k\, Four Tet & Efterklang\, much of the album was built upon recording and
  then sampling organic sounds such as twigs\, rocks and paintbrushes to cr
 eate percussion. An empty glass bottle was transformed into the otherworld
 ly organ on the raw opener 0333AM\, and Samson’s own voice became the mo
 ody synth sound on the sparse electronica of Darabuka.\n\n The familiar co
 llection of old tape machines that have characterised much of his sound re
 main (with a 1971 Seinnheiser microphone for the vocals)\, firmly rooting 
 Sings Again in an organic sonic landscape of electronic and acoustic influ
 ences.\n\n Releasing records since 2012\, Samson's practise has always bee
 n that of an instrumental artist\, treating voice as another melodic eleme
 nt in the same way as any other instrument. However\, as the name suggests
 \,Sings Again marks a return to vocal focused music\, after a reflective p
 eriod that saw him release two instrumental works on Belgian label Dauw an
 d the esteemed ambient label 12k (Ryuichi Sakamoto\, Taylor Deupree).\n\n 
 On his return to singing\, Samson offers a raw and direct insight into a l
 ong-established artist beginning again.\n\nBoletos: https://www.tixforgigs
 .com/Event/76572/will-samson-trafo-jena
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