Listen: Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri live at Le Guess Who? 2024

Monday Jan 6th 2025

A New Year's gift and a souvenir from Le Guess Who? 2024. The full live performance by Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri at Utrecht’s Jacobikerk is now available as free, or pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp.

When Abul Mogard (AKA Guido Zen) and composer, record producer, and mastering engineer Rafael Anton Irisarri first played together, something beautiful began blooming which blossomed into 2024's collaborative album ‘Impossibly distant, impossibly close’. Their work’s title captures their landscapes’ paradoxical nature. At once, they feel extremely intimate, but they possess the faraway, soothing quality of the best of drone; it’s right here, but also fully around us.

Recordings

Relive the full performance at Le Guess Who? 2024 below.

<a href="https://irisarri.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-le-guess-who">Live at Le Guess Who? by Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri</a>

"one of the most awe-inspiring performances of the weekend. The pair resonate the cavernous vaulted ceiling of the Jacobikerk with immense-sounding celestial drones that seem to stretch off into infinity." — CRACK

Le Guess Who? Recordings

Listen to more Le Guess Who? recordings via the festival’s recordings archive, with 100+ recordings from past editions now freely available online, featuring a.o. Kamilya Jubran, Alan Sparhawk, Stereolab, Tom Skinner, Selda Bağcan, clipping., Aldous Harding, Deerhunter, Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Microphones, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lightning Bolt, Neneh Cherry, Arooj Aftab, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and many more.

The performance of Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri was co-curated by Reworks for Le Guess Who? 2024, as part of the collaborative project TIMES (The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes).

Captured at Utrecht's Jacobikerk on Saturday, 9 November 2024.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering