8pm Thursday 15 April 2021

Launch of Anat Ben-David's new album, The Promise of Meat, and a screening of the title track video.

The track 'The Promise of Meat', was composed and performed with Anna Dennis by vocally improvising fragments from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Beginning as a narrative song (using Golding’s descriptive scenes of the jungle), it gradually degenerates into eloquent chaos, the slow tribal thud evoking an atmosphere of imminent violence, with Dennis’s soprano sonically mapping the landscape like a kind of organic synthesiser. The video is fantastically visceral and, as Jessica Leigh puts it, 'Bonkers, brilliant and boundlessly apt and allegorical for current times.'

You can listen to the album here.