Her debut album, Darning Woman, blends minimalist folk, layered vocals, and delicate arrangements to create intimate and enigmatic sonic landscapes. Coope’s voice - expressive, layered, and immersive - guides compositions that balance the ephemeral and the tangible, moving between mystery, tension, and emotion.

Born in Cold Spring, New York, and based in Brooklyn, Coope trained initially as a visual artist before embracing music. Her work draws from both historical and contemporary musical traditions, from medieval harmonies to modern folk, as well as vocal experimentation and improvisation. Darning Woman is a poetic exploration of everyday gestures, memories, and emotions, offering listeners an immersive journey through a distinctive and richly textured sound world.

For Closer Music, Anastasia Coope is joined by Moses Archuleta, drummer, percussionist, and founding member of the American band Deerhunter.

His playing blends precision and spontaneity, combining hypnotic rhythms, dynamic textures, and subtle nuances. Across Deerhunter’s albums, Archuleta has helped shape a distinctive sound that moves between experimental rock, post-punk, and shoegaze, where rhythm becomes a vehicle for emotion and tension. Active in numerous side projects, he also explores experimental, improvised, and electronic forms, demonstrating a continuous interest in the interplay between body, sound, and space.

Through a series of EPs released in recent years on CURL and C.A.N.V.A.S, as well as a collaborative EP with Mica Levi titled Spresso (now the name of their power trio with drummer Zach Toppin), Alpha Maid has developed an aesthetic drawing on grunge guitar, lo-fi glitch, sample-based electronics, and strong yet controlled vocal hooks—establishing herself as a key figure in London’s underground music community.

For the very first time in Paris, Alpha Maid will perform live as a trio at Closer Music, accompanied by Sébastien Forrester and Oli Haylett.

His approach to music is rooted in an early encounter with Bwiti ritual drums during his childhood in Gabon, and nourished by a lifelong fascination with traditional and idiosyncratic sounds.

Sébastien Forrester has collaborated and performed with Brodinski, Lafawndah, Slikback, Coby Sey, Ehua, as well as experimental choreographers and dancers like Pierre Rigal and Emmanuelle Soum. His work reflects an expansive and distinctive approach to music, where meticulous rhythms meet improvisation and the ceremonial power of sound.

Straddling heritage and exploration, his music brings together Celtic traditions, black metal, drone, and noise, imbued with a profound sense of Irish history and myth.

The debut album, …And Take The Black Worm With Me (Nyahh Records, 2022), unfolds as a slow-burning suite of five immersive compositions. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father once worked, Lynch’s haunting vocals are layered over vast pillars of uilleannn pipe drones, enhanced with effects and field recordings. The result is a dark, mysterious sound that transports listeners into a space both mythic and