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GoGo Penguin

Featuring Special Guest Daudi Matsiko

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Image of the Manchester trio GoGo Penguin standing next to each other against a white backdrop.

GoGo Penguin, the Manchester trio who inspirationally blend jazz, classical and electronic influences, return with a powerful new album, Necessary Fictions. 

The album finds pianist Chris Illingworth; bassist, Nick Blacka; and drummer, Jon Scott digging deep internally to reach “what we think are our integral, authentic qualities at this moment in time”. It’s a powerful driver for some of their boldest music to date, incorporating modular synths, Moog Grandmother, and electric bass into their sound more than ever before as they glide spectacularly from acoustic instrumentation into electronica with drums to the fore. Honest and powerful, Necessary Fictions is the band at their very best.

Tagged with: Contemporary music

This concert may contain strobe lighting effects and haze.

End time for this performance will be added nearer to the event date.

Produced by the Barbican. 

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