A project borne of myth, mystery and shadow play in eighties Los Angeles gets gloriously animated for the 2016 stage: meet Breadwoman, the character that embodies US vocalist and performance artist Anna Homler’s practice of divining speech, lyrical fragments, and melody for music, with the fluid synthetic excursions of Steven Warwick aka Heatsick as her modern-day accomplice.
Hear Breadwoman & Other Tales
Cafe Oto, London with Steven Warwick and Mildred Rambaud.
Feb. 9, 2016
Image 1 Photo Credit: Dawid Laskowski
Remaining Photos In Gallery: Sean Kelly
“Breadwoman is a storyteller — she’s so very old she’s turned into bread. Breadwoman says: If you don’t try to understand, you will. She is the voice, and the voice is cosmic reality’s musicality.”
Originally recorded in 1985, the album Breadwoman & Other Tales found Homler in musical dialogue with electro-acoustic composer and LA avant-garde contemporary Steve Moshier, on a set of otherworldly spirituals delivered in an invented language by Homler over Moshier’s rich and strange production.
To mark the reissue of this unheralded landmark album by the RVNG label in February 2016, Homler will give rise to Breadwoman again for a series of very special mixed-media performances, with Warwick rechanneling Moshier’s material for the live realm.
2016 TOUR DATES
Friday, February 5
— BERLIN PREMIERE
CTM Festival
Tuesday, February 9 —
London
Cafe OTO
Thursday, February 11 —
Glasgow
The Glad Cafe
Saturday, February 13
— Cardiff
From Now On Festival
REVIEWS
Quench Review
Pitchfork Review of Ee Chê
Juno Plus
Inverted Audio
hhv-de Review
FACT Interview #2
FACT Interview: BREADWOMAN RISES – THE MAKING OF A MODERN MYSTIC
Expose Review
Avoiding Silence Review
Exclaim Review
Aquarium Drunkard — Breadwoman
The Attic — Breadwoman & Other Tales
Review: Boomkat
Sequenza 21/ ReviewTest Pressing Review