Concert: Alison Cotton

About

Alison Cotton returns to Full of Noises in Barrow Park playing music from a phenomenal new album The Gods Laugh on Saturday 27 June.

She last played at the venue in 2024 to a sold out crowd. This time she will be accompanied by Mark Nicholas on percussion, harmonium and synths.

Acclaimed cellist Maja Bugge - from Norway but now Lancaster-based - and award-winning pianist Dave Evans (UK) are also on the bill.

Alison Cotton is a London based composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist whose music centres on viola, harmonium, and layered vocal drones. Originally from Sunderland, she first emerged in the UK underground in bands including Saloon, The Eighteenth Day of May, and more recently, The Left Outsides before beginning her solo career in 2018.

In 2024 Cotton released Engelchen, a work inspired by the lives of Ida and Louise Cook and their efforts to help refugees escape Nazi Germany.

Alison continues to explore drone, experimental folk, and narrative forms, establishing herself as a singular voice in contemporary experimental music.

"Cotton may expand folk's raw emotions into more avant garde territories, but they still feel possessed by a blood-red muscle memory that goes back centuries". – The Guardian

Acclaimed cellist Maja Bugge (NO/UK) and award-winning pianist Dave Evans (UK) are touring new compositions grown from a collaboration which began in 2023 with the work SORTLAND. SORTLAND is a meditative portrait of Maja's home city Sortland situated 68 degrees north above the arctic circle