Vanishing Twin + Rural Tapes Concert

An immersive double concert featuring experimental pop and dreamlike soundscapes. 'This is a band that fearlessly floats in the hazy space between the real world and an imagined one, blurring the line between warmly nostalgic and eerily haunted.' – Pitchfork When London-based musician Cathy Lucas was born, she was supposed to have had a twin sister. But during her mother’s pregnancy, the twin embryo was absorbed into Lucas’s own, through a process known as ‘vanishing twin syndrome’. This phenomenon served as inspiration when she formed the psychedelic pop group Vanishing Twin in 2015. For more than ten years, London based Vanishing Twin have refined a hypnotic sound at the meeting point of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop. The group is now a tightly honed trio of Lucas, drummer Valentina Magaletti (Holy Tongue, Tomaga, Moin) and bassist Susumu Mukai (Zongamin). Pursuing creative openness and an expanded palette of references and sources, Lucas’ left-field song-craft, Magaletti’s experimental percussion, and Mukai’s long history in the production of electronic music form the core of their sound. Around Magaletti’s metronomic, cycling patterns and the pulse of Mukai’s bass lines, the trio collectively create a wide tonal, textural, and structural range. Their latest album, Archives (Fire Records), refines Vanishing Twin’s model of collective music making, where egos are dispelled in playful games of mix and match, and creativity flows between the three multi-instrumentalists.