Gig: Bianca Scout
Bianca Scout is an artist who is hard to classify. She is a dancer, performer and musician and allows her wide range of interests and obsessions to flow freely into her elegant and intimate productions. On her mysterious 2022 album The Heart of the Anchoress, the outlines of pop were still evident, but obscured by hazy temple music and eerie atmospherics. On this year’s Pattern Damage, Scout sought to find a middle ground between contemporary dance, chamber music and dystopian electronica, transforming theatrical baroque snippets and evocative medieval harmonies into dusty, darkly atmospheric serenades.
Scout takes you into the murky depths, then guides you back out. Her performances have a magical atmosphere where fragility and strength, mystery and suspense intermingle, and where every sound and movement contributes to the narrative. It is as hypnotic as it is unsettling.