Somewhere Press Label Showcase with Slowfoam and Sina

We are buzzing to announce that the excellent Glasgow based label Somewhere Press will be doing a showcase at The Lubber! 

The label has been quietly putting out a string of gems, focusing on a core of artists and also releasing some brilliant compilations. 

"It's not taken long for Somewhere Press to mark out its own territory in a space that runs between Kranky, Crépuscule, A Colourful Storm and Belgium's eminently collectible STROOM label. There's pop music, folk and even jazz in there somewhere, but all those elements are filtered through the label’s wide (and literate) spread of influences. Colombian-born artist Mónica Mesa (aka doris dana)'s spectral meditations on 'reveries', for example, or Ugnė Uma's noir-esque trip hop on last year's 'Rage Love Strange Love'. You can never quite predict what you’re gonna get, but you know it'll be memorable." - Boomkat

For this showcase Somewhere Press bring us two artists from their roster, and the brains behind the label will also be DJing between sets. More about the artists playing live here: 

Slowfoam

Slowfoam, aka Madelyn Byrd, is a sound artist, performer, DJ, and educator exploring sonic-somatics and the ecopoetics of home and transformation. Slowfoam embodies an innate sensitivity to texture and somatic response, alchemising field recording, found hums and drones, electroacoustics, voice, guitar, and sound design into genreless whirls.

Slowfoam's debut album Transcorporeal Portal was released with Somewhere Press in 2024, and included in Bandcamp’s best of Ambient. Their sophomore album, Night Rider, follows later this year, revisiting a teenhood in the Sonoran Desert through Wild West fantasy. Night Rider weaves the synaesthesia of memory and streams of (un)conscious meanderings with a buzzing palimpsest of the American Southwest.

Sina

Yet another starlet borne of Naarm’s prodigious nexus, Sina emerges from the trip-hop murk of Dregs’ widely adored, eponymous ’23 entry. Her recent single, Olympus, for Somewhere Press, is the first sign of bigger things on the horizon. It blooms from reverbed guitar, synth pads and longing vocals with a sense of strung-out, romantic pathos and sensuality that colours much of the best work from the city at the far end of the world.