Soulful Electronic Gospel music. A different sounding way to experience Christian Worship music.

Eikon is the London based electro-gospel music duo of Dave Hendra and Dave Pilcher. The Daves Met at St Mary’s Bryanston Sqaure, and joined musical forces during their time studying theology together in 2012, fusing their passion for electronic music and worshipping God. St Mary’s has been giving them space to explore, which has now led to several alternative worship nights trialling out Eikon’s different sounds.

Pilcher, previously a music graduate, and Hendra an arts graduate, began the project with the aim of creating music to enable other electro-enthusiasts to worship and engage with God. Furthermore, the focus was also to create music that would not only appeal to other Christians, but also a secular audience. Eikon’s sound is a mash-up of modern electronica, house music and chilled-out ambient. The result is passionate and melancholic worship, blended with some dance-floor-filler moments.

Pilcher, has had many electronic releases as ‘the Naïve Machine’, and brings his wealth of production experience to Eikon as he composes, produces and arranges the material. Hendra also composes for Eikon, writes the lyrics and sings all the vocals. His interest in lyrical composition stems from his love of poetry, which he started writing on the London underground to act as a distraction from London’s rat-race living. However, Hendra also takes inspiration from the Psalms and writings of historic theologians, identifying with their attempts to engage with God through the ages. Hendra further utilises his Nord Lead and sparse Telecaster harmonies to compliment Pilcher’s warm analogue synths. In combination, all of this creates the unique Eikon soundscape.

Eikon debuted on Christmas 2013 by giving away the Free EP ‘The Only Thing that Matters,’ available on Calibresound.bandcamp.com. The ‘My Fortress’ EP was their first commercially available release, with the new Human EP to be released on the 27th April 2015.

Eikon have had several features on TV. ‘I Will Follow’ from My Fortress EP was used for Showtime’s TV advert for their new show, ‘The Affair’. ‘Self Giver’ from the Human EP has also been used on a Boeing advert and on the TV show Super Nurses.

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22 year old Moses Barrymore is focused on turning L.I.F.E. into his legacy. With over 13 mixtapes to his name, Moses has made music his sole focus and is determined to put Virginia on the map.
 
Moses, born Barry Hardy, caught the rapping bug at a young age. Inspired by battle rapping, he competed with kids during recess and rhymed for money. But Virginia natives didn’t move him; superstar Kanye West is what opened Moses up to sharpening his pen. ‘I never heard anything like (Kanye’s album) College Dropout,’ Moses remembers. ‘The song choices and the themes for the album (made me say) I wanna say I produced.’ But playing with beats wasn’t the only thing that consumed Moses during his school days.
 
He struggled through middle school and high school with an undiagnosed learning disability. ‘I didn’t talk until I was three years old and I don’t have good coordination. They used to put me in slower classes,’ explains Moses. But where he had challenges with reading comprehension, he had absolutely no problem with the gift of sound. Moses put all of his frustration into his love for music. He became an audio engineer at 14 years old and began working with local acts to engineer their sounds. During this time, he also kept journals and wrote short stories, reflecting on his experiences growing up without a father and watching his mother struggle to make ends meet. But after years of being afraid of what other people would think of his art, Moses came from behind the booth to create his own sound.
 
Fast forward 8 years and Moses has proven himself…to himself. His brand new mixtape L.I.F.E. – Learning Information from Experiences – was released on his 22nd birthday earlier in 2015. And his bold new single ‘No Way’ lets listeners know he means business. One of his bars states: ‘If you ain't walk with me, than you can't ride No Way! .’ It’s only a matter of time before Moses is riding high.

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