Ak'chamel + Zos Kia

Baba Yaga's Hut Present:

Ak'chamel + Zos Kia at Iklectic, September 4th

Ak’chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory rituals, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.

"Ak'chamel's deliberately lo-fi, murky temple music conjures not only the post-industrial rituals lusting for the pagan days of Druidic Britain but also the pantheistic, impishly playful rhythms from Thai temple music as well as some choice nods to the occult ethnomusicology of their professed influences, The Sun City Girls." -aQuarius Records

Authors of around fifteen cassettes, three vinyl LP’s, several cryptic VHS videos and their reels have generated millions of views. They tour frequently and have performed major festivals on both sides of the Atlantic garnering press from VICE, Consequence, The Wire, and many more.

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Zos Kia (also credited as Zoskia) is an experimental project initially formed by John Gosling along with John Balance in 1982. The name derives from the Zos Kia Cultus, a magical system devised by artist Austin Osman Spare. Several 1982-83 performances featured Peter Christopherson (Throbbing Gristle) on sound, and recordings from this period were released as Transparent (1984) on Nekrophile Records — material that straddles the origins of both Zos Kia and Coil.

After the project’s initial phase, Gosling went on to record with Psychic TV, JIZ, Agent Provocateur and work solo as Mekon.

Presented by Baba Yaga's Hut.

This is an 18+ event