Richard Youngs + Jay Glass Dubs
Richard Youngs sings on “Goodbye Forbidden Hell,” one of the tracks from Jay Glass Dubs’ album You Would Love Me Now (2023). At KET, the two of them present a collaborational project, a work in progress that bridges the two singular artists’ practices into an amalgam of voices, aural gestures, and weightless structures. The evening also includes a solo set by each artist.
◍ Richard Youngs (b. 1966, Cambridge, England) is a musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. In an endlessly prolific and unpredictable career spanning more than 40 years, his diverse output defies the existence of any definitive biography or discography. Primarily recognised as a solo artist and writer of extended song, he is also an active cross-genre collaborator. Recent music includes live and studio work with the avant-disco group AMOR, as well as “deep wallpaper” music with Daniel O’Sullivan. Initially a rare live performer, he has embraced the stage, playing throughout Europe in the past few years.
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◍ Dimitris Papadatos, also known as Jay Glass Dubs, is an electronic music composer and sound artist. He has been active on the international scene for over ten years, from Berlin Atonal, documenta 14, and Terraforma to London’s Cafe OTO, with releases on Bokeh Versions, DFA, and Ecstatic. His starting point is dub music, which he strips down to its basic components (drums, bass, vocals, effects) and reconstructs on his own terms. His work juxtaposes disparate elements, reexamining methods with a long historical tradition and challenging the mechanisms that legitimize them. Most of his work addresses issues such as copyright, authorship, and originality through an ongoing process of transformation.