SOMETHING ATLEAST #7

Coby Sey is a songwriter, producer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and DJ, who, after years spent buzzing around the DIY artist circuitry of South East London, has developed a distinctive presence as an artist and performer.

Sey’s recorded work spans the realms of live instrumentation, electronic productions and experimental music, melding recognisable motifs of hip-hop, noise, jazz and grime into a dubbed-out anaesthesia. 

On stage, the dreamlike compositions are imbued with a heavy, uneasy dancefloor energy, and fleshed out by live instrumentation courtesy of close cohorts including Alpha Maid, Ben Vince, Charlie Hope, CJ Calderwood, Momoko Gill and Sébastien Forrester.

Sey’s open-door approach to sharing and making music is evident in his long-term collaborations with Mica Levi and Tirzah, as well as with Speakers Corner Quartet, TYSON, Laurel Halo, Lafawndah and more. He is also a founding member of London’s CURL collective (with Mica Levi and Brother May), has created commissioned work with London Contemporary Orchestra and Tutto Questo Sentire, and hosts a monthly radio show on NTS since 2015, which offers a peek into his appealingly murky musical world.

Sey’s long awaited debut album ‘Conduit’ was released on 9 September 2022 through AD 93 to widespread critical acclaim. Sey has since then collaborated with soprano-operatic vocalist Olivia Salvadori and drummer Akihide Monna to release their debut self-titled group album ‘GAISTER’ on 1 November 2024 through AD 93.

THE NARRATOR,

is a person-shaped storyteller crystallised in hybridity, illuminating the intimacies and possibilities of sensory-based storytelling across sound, sentences and stage.