Sekoya

About

Thursday 8th May | 2025 | Doors 7pm, performance 8pm

Peggy's Skylight

Tickets: Concessions £8, Main seating and window area £12

Drawing on their love of electronic, contemporary orchestral, world, folk and jazz music & influenced by Esbjorn Svensson, Björk, Brad Mehldau, Gogo Penguin, Mammal Hands, Yussef Dayes, Tigran Himasyan, and Hiromi.

Dynamic, contemplative and majestic. Sekoya is an interdisciplinary trio combining the harmony from European musics and American jazz with articulate rhythms and decisive grooves to create a genre-defying musical entanglement uniquely their own.

Formed in Glasgow in late-2021, Sekoya is the result of 10 years of collaboration between 3 active composers, musicians and friends, sidemen on the DIY/indie scene for several years, coming together to make their dream project a reality. All three members contribute equally to the writing process: one that favours the creation of a powerful group dynamic over individual solos. They have forged their own path and their unique sound grew out of long improvised rehearsals/ meditations. The intention has always been to write interplay music that expresses their lives, inspired by European jazz, soul, minimalism, electronic music, and reflecting (diverse and dynamic) Scottish modernity. They each brought their own backgrounds and histories; playing nu-jazz, folk, rock, soul, blues, Scottish trad and modern textural orchestral music; and found joy in playing together.

"A beautifully crafted piece of work" – The Scotsman

Line up

Luke Teikō Cunningham – piano

Gavin Lamont – drums

Simon Toner – double bass

Book tickets:
https://peggysskylight.co.uk/events/sekoya-8th-may-2025/