Date/Time
Saturday 12 April 2025
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Categories Dance
Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
Merging six vocalist-instrumentalists from an array of musical backgrounds, Bristol-based Tryani Collective performs original compositions featuring multi-part vocal arrangements interwoven with explosive percussion, synthesisers and drums. Equally at home blasted over a festival crowd or stripped down for an intimate acoustic performance, Tryani Collective’s infectious energy transports both performers and audience into an ecstatic trance. With a growing reputation for their precise and passionate delivery, the group features members of some of the UK’s most innovative music projects including Spindle Ensemble, Solana, Soma Soma, Stevie Toddler, Tezeta, Zoobers, & Safrela.
Tryani Collective’s hypnotic polyphony draws on influences from Henry Purcell, Cocanha and San Salvador, using original texts both as lyrics and as musical motifs. Words are broken down and distorted, and voices are used as instruments to explore the expressive potential of the human voice. This symbiotic exchange between percussion and vocals creates a sound simultaneously complex and unified.
Their deceptively pared-down instrumentation explores a wide range of harmonic and rhythmic textures, from the haunting call of ‘Bitter Water’ to the dancing, crowd-rousing momentum of ‘Hierarchy’. Recent gigs include Shambala Festival, Starry Skies, Fire in The Mountain, supporting Bab L’ Bluz (Real World Records) at The Jam Jar Bristol, and The Gallimaufry, the legendary Bristol venue that has launched the careers of Waldo’s Gift, Snazzback, MADLY, Binbag Wisdom and others.
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.