A-SUN AMISSA & LAUREN MASON
Water Scores
It starts by a well with its goddess discarded
starts with a thirst, quenched before asking…
And what if water was keeping score?
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 The Black Circle, Water Scores will be taken on the road in 2026. March sees a handful of dates with Thraa 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.
LIVE DATES:
28.02 - Sheffield - Bishops House
01.03 - Newcastle - Lubber Fiend *
03.03 - Manchester - The Peer Hat
04.03 - Milton Keynes - Crauford Arms *
05.03 - Bristol - Golden Lion *
06.03 - Eastbourne - Grove Theatre ^
* w/ Thraa
^ w/ IAN
More dates tba.
Available for shows in UK/EU in early September and throughout 2026 for festival appearances.
"What they've created is nothing short of a masterpiece" - Distorted Sound
“There’s no clashing between the political and the aesthetic; more of a harmonious symmetry where they both speak for themselves in the most powerful of ways.” - The Sleeping Shaman
“The listener will find both hauntingly beautiful - the recitations themselves but also the music. The result is a wonderful collective thing.” - Veil of Sound
“It is beyond music, as much an art installation, maybe more than that too given the characters involved and the gravitas of the piece – it is an event.” - Ninehertz
“A full strength curse hurled back at the built world.” - Boolin Tunes
“It’s not often a piece of music within the avant-garde realm can be so spiritually resonant and meditative whilst shouting down the ear of its audience in defiance and solidarity.” - Everything is Noise
“But the detail… the detail makes it. Water Scores is rich in detail, and some may find the level of this difficult to process.” - Aural Aggravation
"Water Scores is more of a mediation. Mason’s words, a clarion call, and together with A-Sun Amissa’s hypnotic soundscapes, they light up a path that leads us to a brutal reality that urgently needs addressing." - Sun13
