A night of new alternative folk songs from actor, artist and musician SAMUEL BLENKIN, exploring love, loss, the apocalypse, and the untranslatable.
Samuel Blenkin’s musical education started with his Dad and the car cassette player, so it is fitting that his first offerings are recorded entirely to tape. Being introduced at a young age to legends and obscurities alike, from Bob Dylan to Jade Warrior to John Martyn to Robbie Basho to Talk Talk, Blenkin found himself immersed in the music of the folk-rock tradition and draws from this now as a songwriter. He has just spent the last six months recording the product of years spent as a practicing artist; songs of fleeting connection and loss that interrogate our ability to share experience, set against the backdrop of a precarious world.
How accurately can we translate our experiences to another person? Within our limitations of expression, how can we say what we really mean, as we see it? This act of translation is the grapple of every artist; for some it is a lyrical confessional act, others a trust-fall into sound that speaks when words can’t. For some it’s visual; painting, or photography. Others, it’s movement. For some it’s words alone. For multi-disciplinary artist Samuel Blenkin it’s a bit of everything. Where words falter, the music lifts. Where music and words meet something beyond what we can usually say is communicated. All this culminates in the song practice that has until now been a private processing space for Blenkin. With these first songs, the questions mean more than the answers.
Sam will be playing with a rag tag band of friends and his Dad’s old projector, in the intimate space of the basement bar.
Doors open 7.30pm. Music starts 8pm. The venue is mixed seated and standing. Tables are limited and available on a first come first served basis so, if you’d like a seat, we recommend arriving early!
