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Alchemical

0	LONDON: Jazzlive at The Crypt
P	Friday 22nd March, 2019
N	8:00pm

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Instant chemistry is something that doesn’t happen very often in music – but when it does it’s almost like it was meant to be. It’s what happened when these pair of London-based musicians met at 2am at a festival jam session. Alchemical is the resulting collaboration between Irish-born singer songwriter Aisling Iris and London-born bassist/producer Mike Flynn. Combining their shared love of jazz, widescreen melodies, heartfelt lyrics and a melting pot of grooves, beats and styles, Alchemical is a forward-looking, free-thinking musical adventure seeking out funky new destinations from future soul-funk to next-gen jazz and beyond.   Discovering a huge amount of musical common ground their writing process took on its own momentum as one idea soon led to another. Mike recording arrangements and melodies before Aisling would weave lyrics and her own counterpoint melodic lines on top, the musical sketches soon became songs. This burst of creativity took place throughout the political and social turmoil of the summer of 2017, inspiring the pair to pour their thoughts and feelings into a rich body of songs that range from the reflective and melancholic, to the hypnotic, danceable and soulfully uplifting.   Drawing on his love of broken beats, hip-hop fusion, funk, jazz and drum’n’bass Mike used Ableton Live to capture his ideas as spontaneously as possible – building layers of chords, bass lines and melodies all on the bass . Aisling in turn created lush layers of vocals, instinctively finding her own harmonic colours to which she set her thought-provoking, poignant and disarmingly honest lyrics about the world and her personal experiences.

In the Summer of 2018 they released their debut single “Long way down” on Bandcamp https://alchemical.bandcamp.com and all other major digital outlets with 50% of all sales for the single donated to the very important charity Warchild

They have since brought on board some of the most talented players in London for their forthcoming EP “State of Grace” set for a May 2019 release including Sam Crowe from Native Dancer and the talents of award winning guitarist Rob Luft who will join the band on stage for this night of musical exploration.

Aisling Iris vocals, Mike Flynn on bass,  special guest Rob Luft on guitar,  Andrew McLean on drums &  pianist Sam Leak