a niche in the gap

Thomas Bush is a Malmö-based musician from the West Midlands. Drawing from the well of popular music and folk tradition, songs are repeatedly melted and reformed in the live context using whichever materials happen to be at hand. His third album, ‘The Next 60 Years’ was released in 2024 on Jolly Discs, alongside releases by RAP, of which he is one half. Other projects include ‘men scryfa’, which documents the effects of geological stimulus; cATHOLIC CHURGH, a transatlantic acoustic collaboration; and Merula, deconsecrating liturgical material. New releases manifesting in 2026 via Aguirre, Lost Domain, Kashual Plastik and Accidental Meetings. In other words “droll, digressive threshold-pop, plaintive minimal synth moods and strange rhythm-box geometries … heading deep into the woods and time-dilating free-folk abstraction” (Low Company); “It is the owner of the funny musical character.” (Art into Life) Severin Black is an Aberystwyth-born, London-raised and Berlin-residing experimental musician and composer who primarily works with woodwind, electronics and feedback. Pulling from his Celtic/London roots, Severin is especially interested in semiotics and the use of space and geography to evoke memory, utilised through field recording, improvisation and the processing of traditional acoustic instruments. This has led to performances in the ICA (London), Volksbühne (Berlin), Le Poisson Rouge (New York), Mission T o Seafarers (Melbourne) and on a giant pipe organ in a north-east London church. Severin also curates the publishing label and event series Archaic Vaults, fostering a community around experimental music ’ s global diaspora and collaborating with peers such as Pavel Milyakov, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Vanessa Bedoret, Flora Yin-Wong and Chantal Michelle. 114 is a drawing/printing practice concerned with visual interpretations of recurring numerical patterns/sequences. A niche in the gap displays a series of paper-based WIPs. Gefördert von: Initiative Musik und des Bundes für Kultur und Medien.