Trench Prayer

Contour

Art's Cool present: CONTOUR

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  This show has been selected as part of the This Must Be For You Community Ticket Fund, a new pay-it-forward ticket scheme.

\--Khari describes himself as a multifaceted artist, musician, score composer, film lover and radio programmer. Contour — the musical alias he started in 2014 — is the vessel for his musical research, songwriting and production practices. Following on from Weight (2020) and Love Suite (2021), the 27-year-old, South Carolina-based artist released Onwards! in October 2022 with UK label Touching Bass. This third body of work serves as an expansion of his songwriting ability, both lyrically and thematically, beyond autobiographical expression.

“The record exists as a bridge in conversation between today’s artists and art of the past which offered potential ways to navigate the world that we’re in; personally or on a larger scale”, he says. Via soundbites and references, he places art ancestors and influences in conversation with his work.

Outside of this latest offering, Khari has co-directed/edited (Fresh Rain, 2021) and scored (Half-Day, 2022; One Magenta Afternoon, 2022) film, collaborated with visionary black fashion house, Telfar, and is a seasoned resident artist. Most recently for New York’s non-profit cultural center Pioneer Works, NTS Radio’s WIP programme and as a guest curator for the New York-based art publisher and performance space, Montez Press Radio.

This is an 18+ event (under 18s to be accompanied)

Elsewhere Margate

Contour - From Exile - 3rd Ward

Gigs

Margate

Whereelse?

R.A.P. Ferreira (F.K.A Milo – A.K.A Scallops Hotel) is an MC, producer and theorist working in the black arts tradition, commonly categorized as rap.

Having founded the label Ruby Yacht in 2015 and since releasing all of his music through this channel, Ferreira has earned a sizable following within independent hip hop by rigorous, constant touring and an elevated, explorational style of performance. He is known for an uncompromised, utopic flow that speaks directly to the root of the listener.

By 2018, the young artist galvanized his presence in the American rap scene with the opening of Soulfolks Records & Tapes in Biddeford, Maine. Ferreira has a sprawling, limitless catalog ranging years, names, geographies, intentions, collaborations, and vocabularies.

In an era defined by keyword search, soundbyte, cosign, marketing and virality this artist’s work stands out by not cow tailing to the movements and trends of the digital sphere.

He currently makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee where he continues to helm the Ruby Yacht while studying to become a blues guitar legend and a farmer.

This is an 18+ event

The Columbo Group

R.A.P. Ferreira

mythsysizer instinct

London

The Jazz Cafe

Now Wave

Manchester

YES Basement

Khari describes himself as a multifaceted artist, musician, score composer, film lover and radio programmer. Contour — the musical alias he started in 2014 — is the vessel for his musical research, songwriting and production practices. Following on from Weight (2020) and Love Suite (2021), the 27-year-old, South Carolina-based artist released Onwards! in October 2022 with UK label Touching Bass. This third body of work serves as an expansion of his songwriting ability, both lyrically and thematically, beyond autobiographical expression.

“The record exists as a bridge in conversation between today’s artists and art of the past which offered potential ways to navigate the world that we’re in; personally or on a larger scale”, he says. Via soundbites and references, he places art ancestors and influences in conversation with his work.

This is an 18+ event.

Super Friendz

Contour - Erratic Soul

Leeds

Headrow House

R.A.P. Ferreira fka milo aka scallops hotel is an mc, producer and theorist working in the Black arts tradition commonly categorized as rap. Having founded the label ruby yacht in 2015 and since releasing all of his music through this channel, Ferreira has earned a sizable following within independent hip hop by rigorous, constant touring and an elevated, explorational style of performance. He is known for an uncompromised, utopic flow that speaks directly to the root of the listener.

This is an 18+ event

R.A.P. Ferreira + Eldon + Contour + Aj Suede

R.A.P. Ferreira - LEAVING HELL

R.A.P. Ferreira - Leaving Hell

Aj Suede

Eldon

Bristol

Crofters Rights

Khari describes himself as a multifaceted artist, musician, score composer, film lover and radio programmer. Contour — the musical alias he started in 2014 — is the vessel for his musical research, songwriting and production practices. Following on from Weight (2020) and Love Suite (2021), the 27-year-old, South Carolina-based artist released Onwards! in October 2022 with UK label Touching Bass. This third body of work serves as an expansion of his songwriting ability, both lyrically and thematically, beyond autobiographical expression.

This is an 18+ event

Bird On The Wire

Cafe OTO

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