An electrifying new force in the UK’s experimental music scene, Bristol trio Waldo’s Gift had their origins in intense, bizarre weekly residency at Bristol’s Gallimaufry, where they built a cult following.
They produce sizzling, maximalist, impossibly complex guitar driven sounds. While Waldo’s Gift have been associated with the UK jazz explosion – mainly owing to their focus on improvisation – there are shades of prog-metal, math-rock, and the more intense ends of Squarepusher or Aphex Twin. “We Trojan-horse metal into jazz venues,” laughs drummer James Vin.
“To sound like us is to be a sweaty, chaotic mess, on the precipice of falling apart. We’re all on the limit of what we can physically play, and that’s where the fun comes from.”
"A band on the edge, making moves no one’s made before"
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