Toria Wooff

A concert by Toria Wooff, a singer-songwriter whose second album, Aleister, combines folk songs with orchestral and tape-based textures, staged at St Pancras Old Church in London.

Toria Wooff's self-titled debut album was championed by Uncut, Clash, Shindig, Record Collector, BBC Radio 6 and Radio X. The second album, Aleister, follows with eleven brooding folk songs built from tape-saturated textures, drones, vintage keyboards, orchestral touches and detailed acoustic instrumentation. The singing moves from hushed passages to startling intensity.

On stage, the act can be solo or joined by a close-knit band. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar, eerie keyboards, textured strings and restrained ensemble playing frame the voice, with near silences alternating with dark, cinematic swells. The sound draws on British and Irish folk records from the late 1960s and 1970s as well as contemporary songwriting, and the songs'stories join folk tradition, gothic literature and occult imagery with ancient mythology and personal experience.

The concert takes place at St Pancras Old Church, a religious building on Pancras Road in London NW1.