In Water Scores, Lauren Mason’s dark and experimental poetics respond to A-Sun Amissa’s tide-like currents of guitar, synth, sampled hydrophone, loops, and clarinet. This long-form piece ranges through deep ambience, crashing chaos and ebbing aftermath.
During this new work Mason explores the curses of corporate extraction and pollution on our planet’s water, and listens in, as water speaks back. Mason is best known as bassist with now-defunct existential sludge band Torpor, where she often wove her spoken word pieces through heavy soundscapes. She has been developing her poetic practice for many years and published her first book ‘Rust Canyon’ in 2025.
A-Sun Amissa are a group in a permanent state of metamorphosis, existing on the fringes of some kind of avant-rock, relentlessly pushing forward, shapeshifting and presenting their unique noise in new ways and on their own terms. A sound underpinned and overlaid with drones, moving in and around a diverse chasm of post-rock, melancholic drone, noise, doom and ambient sounds. Over the past 10+ years A-Sun Amissa have toured the UK and EU every year, played at ArcTanGent Festival, performed and toured with the likes of Colin Stetson, Amenra, Jerusalem In My Heart, Nadja, Hilary Woods and more.
This collaboration was born of a mutual love for each other’s creative output, an aligning of the political and the aesthetic.
"What they've created is nothing short of a masterpiece" - Distorted Sound
“There’s no clashing between the political and the aesthetic; more of a harmonious symmetry where they both speak for themselves in the most powerful of ways.” - The Sleeping Shaman
“The listener will find both hauntingly beautiful - the recitations themselves but also the music. The result is a wonderful collective thing.” - Veil of Sound
“It is beyond music, as much an art installation, maybe more than that too given the characters involved and the gravitas of the piece – it is an event.” - Ninehertz
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