Saramago present: Abel Ganz + Tiger Moth Tales + We Are Kin

After releasing their latest album last year, 2015 has been nothing short of a remarkable period for Abel Ganz - having made trips to play at festivals both in the UK and Europe, as well as in the USA.

To celebrate the band’s most successful ever year, and to see 2015 out in style, Abel Ganz is returning to the venue that started their recent journey over the last 12 months or so with a very, very special Christmas-time show at the CCA in Glasgow on Friday the 18th December – the same venue chosen for their album launch show.

The band says:

“We really wanted to end what has been a fantastic year for us with a special show in our own home town - and to help us celebrate we have invited along not one, but two of our very favourite bands to join us. Amazingly, they have both agreed!

First of all, we are absolutely overjoyed to welcome along the man who is behind the brilliant Tiger Moth Tales: Peter Jones! Anyone who has not heard Pete’s albums Cocoon and Story Tellers is really missing out! The reaction to these astonishing works has been nothing less than ecstatic with many reviewers [quite rightly] hailing the man’s arrival on the prog scene as a major talent!

Secondly, we have been watching with great interest the growing roster of fantastic artists that have been gradually collected by perhaps the most important and influential independent Prog record label around at the moment: Bad Elephant Music. Amongst their many stand out releases in 2015 there is one in particular that we keep coming back to: Pandora, by young Manchester band We Are Kin. Rave reviews describe this fresh band’s atmospheric approach as music that “transcends genre and sound to become something timeless, original and new”.

So – there you have it. We are really, really excited about this! Three bands on one [xmas party] night. We are so pleased that Tiger Moth Tales & We Are Kin will join us on this special occasion and we are very proud to be bringing them both to Scotland for their first shows north of the border.”