Sebastien Forrester

Equally at ease building unearthly soundscapes than crafting serpentine rhythmic tracks, Sébastien Forrester has always had a recurring obsession with traditional and idiosyncratic sounds - his very first encounter with music as a child was indeed the Bwiti ritual drums, while living in Gabon, Central Africa, with his family in the early 2000s.

Formerly known as Holy Strays (acclaimed by the likes of Pitchfork, the Fader, Fact Magazine, Dazed, Les Inrocks, etc), the Paris-based franco-british percussionist and sound artist started releasing music early on, at the age of 19, and has put out records on international labels such as Superpang, Not Not Fun Records and Hands in the Dark, bringing to life the crossroads of leftfield drumming, ceremonial atmospherics and eruptive sound design. Over the last decade, he has also remixed Rejjie Snow, SUUNS and Forest Swords, and shared stages with acts as diverse as SBTRKT, The Soft Moon and Zola Jesus, all across Europe. His latest pieces of work explore his relationship to trance and ancient percussive instruments, as well as the special timbre of the bagpipe, an instrument that makes the link between his British roots and the Occitan part of his family in Aveyron, France. Some of his recent collaborations include Brodinski, Kukii (fka Lafawndah), Slikback, Coby Sey, as well as Toulouse-based experimental dancer and choreographer Pierre Rigal, among others.