YPY + Valentina Magaletti

YPY is the solo electronic project of Koshiro Hino, who also leads the Japanese band goat, a group that plays tightly locked, repetitive patterns on muted guitars and drums, and who runs the label birdFriend. As YPY he works with drum machines, modular sounds and loops that repeat and shift in small steps.

Valentina Magaletti is an Italian drummer based in London. Alongside Tomaga, her duo with the late Tom Relleen, and Holy Tongue, with Al Wootton, she played drums in Vanishing Twin. Her playing favours unusual percussion, found objects and loose, shifting rhythms, which in this pairing run against Hino's machine patterns.