Canada’s Matthew Parker (performing as Piano Rach – pronounced “piano rock”) has been making, recording and performing music since the mid-90s. The now-Hackney-based multi-instrumentalist recorded and toured as Sunny Day Sets Fire’s drummer (we’ve not heard of them either) before a decade plagued in scandal, public meltdown and bankruptcy. 

Emerging from obscurity with debts to pay, Parker now desperately performs solo by building loops of synths, guitars and drums – channelling the sweeping filters of Stereolab, the slow-build-to-crescendo of post-rock and the danceability of early New Order.

Having recorded at home (“quietly, with my kids sleeping beneath me”) the aptly named “Chaperone” EP provides audiences at small to moderate-sized gigs something to listen to, in order to know whether they think he’s any good.

Touchingbass / Calm Roots
I sometimes  make things.
Grew up in in a forrest by the sea. Atm residing in south east London 

bookings : info@touchingbass.co.uk

DJ, record collector and 1/2 of @avec_plaisir_records
and #dr33333ams party w/ @hendrik_stein

Booking:  lucas(at)thepool-london.com 
@the-pool

2026

26.–29.07. – Lofoten / Trevarefest
18.04. – Berlin / Arkaoda
21.02. – Lisbon / Masa Sonora
30.01. – Berliin / Du Beast
09.01. – Berlin / Arkaoda

2025

20.12. — Berlin / Sisyphos
20.12. — Berlin / Avec Plaisir Unkompress Residency
12.12. — Berlin / Migas
06.12. — Dubai / No Borders Shop X Vinylsouk
03.12. — El Nido / Happiness Beach Bar
29.11. — Manila / Sado Maso Disco
23.11. — Hong Kong / CT Fest
15.11.— Bangkok / Transport POSTPONED
14.11.— Bangkok / Studio Lam
08.11.— Hayama / Vacation Zushi
06.11.— Osaka / Bar INC
30.10.— Tokyo / Mitsuki
25.10.— Seoul / Nyapi
24.10. — Seoul / Bar Piment
17.10. — Leipzig / Conne Island
05.10. — Berlin / YSY / Soft Dr33333ams
26.09. — Berlin / KINK
14.09. — Berlin / Else
13.09. — Berlin / Arkaoda / Dr33333ams
05.09. — Berlin / Du Beast
30.08. — Utrecht NAR/HET Festival
29.08. — Ibiza / Urusai Audiophile Bar
28.08. — Ibiza / The Standard Sunset Terrace 
15.–17.08. — ZMAR Festival
19/20.07. — Norway / Trevarefabrikken
20.06. — Prag / Disco Circev X Zmar at Planeta Za

Lisson...  ON AIR, is a series of podcasts that will mostly be recorded from the gallery's London location. Episodes will include readings, music and engagement with the gallery's extensive archive, as well as contributions from Lisson Gallery artists. 

www.lissongallery.com

A podcast about politics, the media, and the politics of the media. Hosted by Tom Mills and Dan Hind.

Conversations with some of the most engaged artists and thinkers working today.

e-flux is a publishing platform and archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and enterprise which was founded in 1998. Its news digest, events, exhibitions, schools, journal, books, and the art projects produced and/or disseminated by e-flux describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory internationally. Its monthly publication e-flux journal has produced essays commissioned since 2008 about cultural, political, and structural paradigms that inform contemporary artistic production.

Focusing on experimental genres, we aim to provide a space to share in the creative process and spread the experience of inner exploration through musical expression.

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