Dean McPhee / The Universal Veil / ADRA

Dean McPhee is a solo electric guitarist who records his meditative and hypnotic instrumental music at his home in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He plays a Fender Telecaster through a valve amp, an 18” subwoofer and an array of effects (including a kick drum pedal), and he is influenced by Dub, Modal Jazz, British Folk, Underground Electronic Music and Psychedelic Rock. A self-taught musician with a fluid, understated technique and an inventive approach to the instrument, his music has received acclaim for it’s melodic, dreamlike and trance-inducing qualities and deep sense of space. Dean is a regular contributor to the esoteric record label/collective Folklore Tapes and his latest album “Astral Gold” was released earlier this year on his own Bass Ritual label. 

The Universal Veil is a duo comprised of Sam McLoughlin (Twisted Nerve/Pre-Cert Home Entertainment) and Folklore Tapes head honcho David Chatton Barker. Their improvised live performances with their own handmade “ritual instruments” are by turns meditative, trancelike and surreal. Unusual sounds are spontaneously generated, recycled and transmuted into a deeply strange, magical and psychedelic soundscapes.

ADRA is the more experimental side of Andrew Abbott’s music work. Deeply meditative long-form compositions / jams of effects-laden acoustic instruments such as mbira, guitar, tongue drum, singing bowl, ocarina etc. Developed as musician-in-residence in psychiatric wards in Yorkshire.