WATER SCORES
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Some words of explanation...
In Water Scores, Lauren Mason’s dark and experimental poetics respond to A-Sun Amissa’s tide-like currents of guitar, synth, sampled hydrophone, loops, and clarinet. This long-form piece ranges through deep ambience, crashing chaos and ebbing aftermath.
During this new work Mason explores the curses of corporate extraction and pollution on our planet’s water, and listens in, as water speaks back. Mason is best known as bassist with now-defunct existential sludge band Torpor, where she often wove her spoken word pieces through heavy soundscapes. She has been developing her poetic practice for many years and published her first book ‘Rust Canyon’ in 2025.
A-Sun Amissa are a group in a permanent state of metamorphosis, existing on the fringes of some kind of avant-rock, relentlessly pushing forward, shapeshifting and presenting their unique noise in new ways and on their own terms. A sound underpinned and overlaid with drones, moving in and around a diverse chasm of post-rock, melancholic drone, noise, doom and ambient sounds.
This collaboration was born of a mutual love for each other’s creative output, an aligning of the political and the aesthetic.
After a hugely successful debut performance in November 2025 in Glossop for @beholdtheblackcircle , Water Scores will be taken on the road in 2026. March sees a handful of dates in the UK and plans are in place for UK/EU dates in September.
Water Scores will be released on February 27th 2026 via Gizeh Records.
— GZH123
Recorded during the last months of 2025 in Glossop and Bristol.
Richard Knox - electric guitar / synths / fx / processing
Luke Bhatia - electric guitar / strega / samples / fx
Claire Knox - clarinet
Lauren Mason - voice / fx
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Simon Mason - voice
Cassie - voice
Original hydrophone recordings by Clare Savory
Mixed and produced by Richard Knox at Cloud Bunt Moon, Glossop
Mastered by Mark Beazley
Artwork by Richard Knox
Packaging by Dark Peak Press
TOUR DATES
February 28th 2026
Bishops House - Sheffield (UK) (Tickets)
March 1st 2026
Lubber Fiend - Newcastle (UK) + Thraa (Tickets)
March 3rd 2026
The Peer Hat - Manchester (UK) (Tickets)
March 4th 2026
Crauford Arms - Milton Keynes (UK) + Thraa (Tickets coming soon)
March 5th 2026
Bristol - Golden Lion (UK) + Thraa (Tickets)
March 6th 2026
Grove Theatre - Eastbourne (UK) + IAN & Cabiria (Tickets)
March 7th 2026
TBA
