Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela

"Lucas is just captivating. It's incredible how they can flip the feeling of a room upside down and sonically there’s just no other sound like theirs" - ZACH HILL. - Death Grips.

"One moment you hear John Coltrane playing a volcano, the next you hear a string section being squeezed through a toothpaste tube" - David Rees - The New York Times.

YOTS Death Grips collaborator, Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela has been performing their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass for over 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica. Abela performs the shards like a bell-less saxophone, their lips subtly transmitting micro-sonic vibrations into the pane. This signal feeds a complex modular patch producing both raw audio & control voltages, so the dynamics & frequency of their performance modulates itself within varying parallel effects chains. Mixed together they create the illusion of a ghostly accompaniment, forming dense layers of anomalous music.

Copies of their limited-edition collaborative 7” with Zach Hill (Death Grips) will be available at shows for a discounted price of $10. The single Never, fuses Zach Hill’s frenetic dynamics onto Lucas Abela’s textural glass noise by generating rhythmical control voltages from Zach performance to interpolate their sounds. Each strike creates an envelope replicating its attack decay sustain & release that are used to move parameters within a complex patch, synchronising changes within various parallel effects chains to the drums, causing Abela’s sustained textural glass signal to be rhythmically torn apart by Zach’s drumming.

Fun Fact: Lucas is an ex-local who graduated from Miami High School in 1991.

Granpa will be joined by special guests Gorgina, Coo & Neir.