Gamelan-inflected dream folk duo.

E-mail: insect.trainers@gmail.com
Facebook: @InsectTrainers
YouTube: @insect.trainers

Insect Trainers is a duo formed of two composers, instrumentalists and song writers, Victoria Major and Nick Gray. We use two Balinese gendér wayang gamelan instruments along with guitar, violin, keyboards and vocals to create a web of urban dream folk with postminimalist, surrealist tendencies. With a name conjured from a phrase in a Chloe Aridjis novel, Insect Trainers invites you to worlds of magic animals, sonic vibrations and Swedenborgian correspondences.

Gendér wayang is the name given to a small group of bronze metallophones used in Bali to accompany shadow puppet plays and ceremonies.

Red Kite (Rehearsal. Feb 2024)

A gamelan-inflected dream folk duo.

Live at The Others in Stoke Newington on 12th March 2023.

E-mail: insect.trainers@gmail.com
Facebook: @InsectTrainers
YouTube: @insect.trainers

Insect Trainers is a duo formed of two composers, instrumentalists and song writers, Victoria Major and Nick Gray. We use two Balinese gendér wayang gamelan instruments along with guitar, violin, keyboards and vocals to create a web of urban dream folk with postminimalist, surrealist tendencies. With a name conjured from a phrase in a Chloe Aridjis novel, Insect Trainers invites you to worlds of magic animals, sonic vibrations and Swedenborgian correspondences.

Gendér wayang is the name given to a small group of bronze metallophones used in Bali to accompany shadow puppet plays and ceremonies.

Draw Me (LIVE 12.03.23)

Blue Clouds And Red Ochre (LIVE 12.03.23)

A gamelan-inflected dream folk duo.

E-mail: insect.trainers@gmail.com
Facebook: @InsectTrainers
YouTube: @insect.trainers

Insect Trainers is a duo formed of two composers, instrumentalists and song writers, Victoria Major and Nick Gray. We use two Balinese gendér wayang gamelan instruments along with guitar, violin, keyboards and vocals to create a web of urban dream folk with postminimalist, surrealist tendencies. With a name conjured from a phrase in a Chloe Aridjis novel, Insect Trainers invites you to worlds of magic animals, sonic vibrations and Swedenborgian correspondences.

Gendér wayang is the name given to a small group of bronze metallophones used in Bali to accompany shadow puppet plays and ceremonies.

Llama Song (Taster)

Cycling guitar, cycling gender wayang, 7 dreams

Llama Song (Rehearsal. Feb 2024)

#folk #freakfolk #psychedelicfolk #slowcore #ambient #minimalist

Richard II (Rehearsal. Feb 2024).

#folk #psychedelicfolk #freakfolk #slowcore #minimalist #ambient #gamelan 

More Than Half (Rehearsal. Feb 2024)

Insect Trainers are a gamelan-inflected dream folk duo based in London, UK.

Insect Trainers is a duo formed of two composers, instrumentalists and song writers, Victoria Major and Nick Gray. We use two Balinese gendér wayang gamelan instruments along with guitar, violin, keyboards and vocals to create a web of urban dream folk with postminimalist, surrealist tendencies. With a name conjured from a phrase in a Chloe Aridjis novel, Insect Trainers invites you to worlds of magic animals, sonic vibrations and Swedenborgian correspondences.

Gendér wayang is the name given to a small group of bronze metallophones used in Bali to accompany shadow puppet plays and ceremonies.

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