Ange Halliwell (FR) + support TBA

Ange Halliwell transforms the harp into something ceremonial, spectral, and deeply physical. Emerging from the countryside of southwest France, Halliwell builds worlds where hypnotic arpeggios, layered electronics, and fragmented vocal forms drift between folklore, dream states, and emotional rupture.

Having started playing harp at the age of twelve, Halliwell approaches composition as an immersive practice rather than a fixed musical form. Harp strings become percussive patterns, blurred drones, and unstable harmonic cycles, while voices move between whispered confession, spoken incantation, and raw screams. Across performances, recordings, and visual work, he constructs a universe charged with gothic romanticism, rural mysticism, and bodily transformation. His work often carries the atmosphere of old rituals and forgotten landscapes — humid forests, collapsing chapels, fading daylight — rendered through luminous textures and slow-burning tension.

Recent interviews and features have framed Halliwell as an artist drawn equally toward beauty and decay, combining the delicacy of traditional instrumentation with an attraction to horror, trance states, and emotional extremity. The result is music that feels intimate yet untethered, unfolding with the logic of dreams rather than narrative structure. Melodies surface briefly before dissolving into layered atmospheres and ghostly repetitions, creating performances that feel suspended somewhere between recital, séance, and experimental theatre.

***RIYL: Lyra Pramuk, Mabe Fratti, Claire Rousay, Caterina Barbieri, Moor Mother, Arooj Aftab, Eartheater, SARAHSSON, Mica Levi, Colin Self, Björk, Arca, Diamanda Galás, Coil, Dead Can Dance, Mary Lattimore, Nala Sinephro. ***

Concert included in the AW26 season pass!