Helen Island + Rita P + Xmal + Birdfeeder + Sleepier DJ
Café OTO18-22 Ashwin Street
Sat 19 Sept · 19:30 · £20
About this event
A sign of the times, ghastly and hallucinatory – Helen Island creates alternative pop music that echoes late capitalism and the saccharine gaze of the digital world. The Paris-based cross-disciplinary artist – exploring painting, poetry, and other forms of conceptual art next to music – has a characteristic bedroom style of production, featuring filtered high notes, ripped samples, cut-up genres, and processed vocals. After self-releasing several cassettes and digital editions, with the ethos of the Simple Music Experience collective, 2024 marked the year of Helen Island’s debut album on Knekelhuis. 2025 was the year of the new album, “silence is priceless” and "silence extended EP", pushing his singular world further out. Now newly signed to untitled, Helen Island enters the next chapter of the project. Photo by Quentin Le Joly
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