GRANPA's EPK

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (fka Justice Yeldham) has been performing their signature instrument—shards of amplified glass—for over 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica. Abela performs the shards like a bell-less saxophone, their lips subtly transmitting micro-sonic vibrations into the pane. This signal feeds a complex modular patch producing both raw audio & control voltages, so the dynamics & frequency of their performance modulates itself within varying parallel effects chains. Mixed together they create the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment, forming dense layers of anomalous music.

"Lucas is just captivating. It's incredible how he can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like his" — ZACH HILL - Death Grips

"The most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years – in fact, since I first saw Iggy Pop" — Bruce Russell, WIRE magazine

"One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube" — David Rees, The New York Times

"Brilliantly immediate performance, galvanising and alien and funny, and free of safe gestures and easy comparisons." — Frances Morgan, The Quietus

"Inclusive and joyful, with its blend of unhinged humour and blistering sonic attack." — Rory Gibbon, The Quietus (Unsound Festival 2015)

"An intense cacophonic human explosion of condensed cathartic vibrations... laced with a kind of transgressive, yet genuine euphoria." — Andy Black Forest, Supersonic Festival (2012)

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Audio:
2 x XLR cables (modular rig has built in stereo DI )

Power:
2 x Power sockets for Modular and Lighting

Glass:
Window Pane Glass, discarded offcuts from local glassier preferred, ideally something 4mm to 6mm thick and no smaller than 200 x 500 mm in size (bigger the better, I have glass cutter to produce final triangular shape). Please avoid tempered or toughened glass.

Lighting:
Built-in LED lighting in the modular case. Please dim or turn off house lights.

Seating:
Prefer to play on the floor in front of the PA with the audience seated in circle, first rows on the floor then two rows of seating with the remaining guests standing to produce a natural amphitheatre.

BOOKING CONTACT
please mail abela at dualplover dot com for booking enquiries