Recording: Alaska B

Artist: Alaska B

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall (Women From Space Festival – Night 2), March 6, 2020.

Alaska B - [excerpt]

It's generally acknowledged that the key to a successful sequel is in making things bigger and more explosive while staying true whatever it was that made the original feel special and unique. The second annual Women From Space Festival applied that maxim to great effect, cosmically expanding in all directions while nourishing its core ideal of creating Space for a diverse range of women-centred creative expressions. A rare solo outing from Yamantaka//Sonic Titan's Alaska B saw her working in a similar vein to Avrha's explorations — and, in fact, Brendan Swanson (her partner is that project) joined in to close out this set. But aside from the thunder wrought from her fully appointed drumkit (with gongs and roto-toms, the only thing missing was a double kick drum), there was also this excellent, fully laser harp worthy, planetarium prog synth intro.