Gnoomes returning to Northampton this winter on Losey album tour
Slovenia-based electronic duo Gnoomes will return to Northampton this winter as part of an European tour to promote their forthcoming new album.
The band will release Losey in September and will head back to The Black Prince in November.
Gnoomes are Sasha and Masha Piankova. Together, they meld elements of krautrock, dream pop and shoegaze into their music.
Losey is their sixth album and on Rocket Recordings and just as the pair have taken a step into the unknown by leaving Russia and moving to Slovenia, their music has followed suit and thrown off all shackles to flourish in a defiant show of vibrant and revivifying colour.
“The life of an immigrant is a strange thing” says Sasha, “But luckily, that glow music brings us has never faded, even though the emotional landscape has definitely shifted.
“Living in the countryside, partially in isolation, gave us space to be ourselves.
“It helped reduce the constant background anxiety we’d carried for most of our lives.
“We often say that moving from Russia wasn’t just a political decision, it was a nervous system decision.”
While the music Sasha and his creative and life partner Masha came up with is testimony to a liberating triumph against oppression and adversity, it also goes beyond.
Besides drums – which were recorded by their old bandmate Pasha in Perm – Losey was essentially created without leaving the house.
“Those circumstances pushed us to find a new format, in how we interact with each other, both musically and in real life” explains Sasha.
“As you know, we’re a married couple and the process turned out to be deeply therapeutic and empowering.”
What has emerged is a kaleidoscopic collision of styles which sends the ‘skygazing’ realm of their previous work spinning into electronic orbit.
Losey opener Foreign Agent explicitly tackles the pressures of the Russian state, it also throws a Stereolab-style motorik meditation through an in-the-red psychedelic prism.
Elsewhere Bulgakov and Joy Division are bedfellows amidst the mesmeric, 303-fried EBM of Satan’s Ball.
An unlikely influence came from Paul McCartney whose melodic nous influenced the ‘dada pop daydream’ of ‘Shakshuka And Pie’ just as his post-Beatles farm-based solitude helped inspire the band’s process, not to mention Chris & Cosey, whose music informed the crepuscular acid stomp of the title track.
In conclusion, Masha said: “This is for weirdos, romantics and anyone burned out with the world.”
Gnoomes will headline the Abington Square venue on Thursday, November 12.
Tickets cost £11 before fees via https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Northampton/The-Black-Prince/Gnoomes--support/42448142/
For more information and to pre-order the band’s new album, visit https://linktr.ee/gnoomes