Graham Costello's 'Strata'

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Wednesday 14 June 2023 
Venue: Peggy's Skylight 

Doors at 7pm (Diners) 7.30pm (General Admission)
Performance from 8pm 

Tickets: £12-£16

Graham Costello's 'Strata'

Hypnotising and powerful minimal music. Scottish drummer and composer Graham Costello creates music that ranges in energy from delicate, meditative ambience to cinematic post-rock, harnessing the power of repetitive, entracing minimalist patterns.

"Justifiably be classed amongst the very best of the British jazz revolution" – Louder Than War

"Glasgow's jazz scene is becoming increasingly enviable with its penchant for dissolving the notion of genre. At its epicentre is drummer and composer Graham Costello" – Downbeat Magazine

"An astonishing piece of work that obeys no rules aside from its own" – Clash Magazine

Hypnotising and powerful minimal music. Scottish drummer and composer Graham Costello creates music that ranges in energy from delicate, meditative ambience to cinematic post-rock, harnessing the power of repetitive, entracing minimalist patterns. With his band STRATA, he has been nominated for Scottish Album of the Year, as well as eight Scottish Jazz Awards. STRATA's energetic and organic groove music, alongside the hypnotising patterns and feel of minimalism has been described as "a meteorite on the scene and beyond." – The National

Costello and his peers are among the prominent new Scottish jazz artists bursting into the UK and International jazz scene, including corto.alto and Fergus McCreadie. In May 2021, after his widely-praised debut album OBELISK in 2019, Costello released his follow-up album with STRATA: Second Lives on Gearbox Records, to critical acclaim, with top UK jazz publication Jazzwise naming it one of the "Best Jazz Albums of 2021". 2023 sees Costello refining the sound of STRATA, with greater focus on collective repetition and cyclic grooves, and shifting the gravity of the new music more towards his voice on the drums.

Line up:
Harry Weir – tenor sax + bass clarinet
Fergus McCreadie – piano
Kevin Cahill – guitar
Gus Stirrat – electric bass
Graham Costello – drums + composition

"Infectious minimalist loops, lyrically meditative short interludes and chord-punching rock, thrilling drumming from the leader" – Jazzwise (Editor's Choice)
"Costello's music is a kind of utopia. It is very relaxed and hypnotic at the same time, but on the other hand it is also aggressive and agitated. Costello knows how to mediate between these extremes and how to find a balance" – Eclipsed
"Dedicated, artful…fantastic" – Sunday Times