lovemusic is delighted to collaborate with Laura Bowler in a new show for Musica Festival 2025
The Sad Album is an excavation of the darker, stranger, more tender aspects of grief. We - Laura Bowler, Sam Redway, and the musicians of lovemusic collective - have been sharing stories, laughing, crying, and getting very angry in order to understand (and remove) the masks we wear when facing the loss of someone we love. Sit with us through this kaleidoscopic compilation of voids left, magnified frustrations, and celebrated mundanities during a year and a day of filling and amplifying grief’s silences and absurdities.
Slipping between the universal and the personal, the raw and the precise, the comic and the tragic you can expect to hear such classics as Sorry 4 Ur Loss, Condolences & Other Empty Words, and Let’s Have a Cuppa as we explore a permanently shifted reality. Grab a cushion and make a brew as we draw from both psychological and neurological research as well as personal testimony in this visceral and explosive album of songs in which we are happy to talk about being sad.
From €6 to €26
€12 with the Musica Card
Composition, text and voice | Laura Bowler
Flute | Emiliano Gavito
Clarinet | Adam Starkie
Violin | Emily Yabe
Cello | Céline Papion
Electric guitar | Christian Lozano Sedano
Percussion | Rémi Schwartz
Electronics | Finbar Hosie
Stage direction | Sam Redway
Electronic development | Matthew Fairclough
Co-produced by Césaré – National Centre for Musical Creation, Reims.
This project is supported by Diaphonique, the Franco-British-Irish fund for contemporary music, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and the Caisse des Dépôts.
