Dylan Henner + Ibukun Sunday

Event 3.0 of Season 4.0

Little is known about Dylan Henner, who landed on the ambient scene in 2020 with cassette releases for Phantom Limb, Belgian label Dauw, and cult tastemakers AD93.

He barely promotes himself publicly, instead choosing to communicate through disarmingly poetic song titles. His debut album "The Invention of the Human" (AD93, 2020 - a recipient of BBC 6Music's Album of the Year honours) responds to a set of philosophical questions - what exactly makes us human? What good is civilisation when there's so much misery attached to it? How will technology affect humanity in the long run? In 2022, he released follow-up You Always Will Be on AD93, which traced the course of a single life from birth, to childhood, to adolescence, adulthood, parenthood, middle-age, old-age, and demise. He has also covered Raymond Scott, Terry Riley, Aphex Twin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Su Tissue among numerous further projects.

Dylan Henner's album 'Star Dream FM' is a deeply considered choral-laced experimental album of ambient music which he says was taped from a mysterious radio broadcast that plays his favourite memories from adolescence.

"Late one evening, I was listening to the radio alone at home. I couldn't find the station I wanted, so I shifted the dial around for a while. Between frequencies, fading in and out of fidelity, I found a station I'd never heard before. To my amazement, the station was broadcasting my own memories. Memories from when I was seventeen. Some of the most formative and important moments of my life, alive on the air," Dylan Henner's self-penned mythology begins. "I called some friends and asked if they could find the same frequency, but no-one did. So, quickly as I could, I stuck a blank tape into my hi-fi and hit record. At some point I heard the jingle and the name of the station: Star Dream FM."

Ibukun Sunday is a Lagos based composer and violist who has expertly positioned himself between the rarely-married cultures of ambient music and West African musics. He entwines his compositions with field recordings and also experimental on ambient music and improvisation from his native Nigeria and deeply considered philosophies of existence, humanity and apocalypse.

Ibukun continually seeking and creating an atmosphere where his skills and potentials will be maximally utilised, improving the quality of lives and positively influencing the productivity of his audience.