Sebastian Reynolds - Live
Live footage from Jericho Tavern performance, Oxford, November 2024. Filmed by Adam Hale with Yade Berhanu.
Sebastian Reynolds - available for live shows 2025
Sebastian Reynolds is a British music producer and composer based between Oxford and Swindon UK. In 2023 he released his debut album, Canary, to critical acclaim with tracks from the album such as Cascade and Fetus picking up multiple radio plays on BBC 6Music from DJs such as Deb Grant, Mary Anne Hobbs and Steve Lamacq and glowing reviews from Earmilk, Bandcamp Daily and Louder Than War. At the end of 2024 Sebastian started to perform the Canary material live with his entrancing new AV live show debuting at a performance at the Swindon Shuffle festival and subsequent headline shows at the Jericho Tavern and The Library in his native Oxford.
The live show is a startling combination of dense, electronic atmospherics, driving bass and heavy beats that blend influences from trip hop, psychedelic rock and acid techno, with Asian Gamelan style soundscapes thrown into the mix. Musical inspirations include The Eraser by Thom Yorke, artists such as Four Tet and Susumu Yokota in their combining of Asian instruments and electronics and the haunting, alien spaciousness recalling film composers such as Vangelis and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
A stalwart of the Oxford music scene, Sebastian was known as founder of live electronic ensemble Keyboard Choir and psyche rock band Flights of Helios as well as London free improv grief jazz group Braindead Collective and the trio Solo Collective with German musicians the cellist Anne Müller (Erased Tapes) and violinist Alex Stolze. Sebastian has a series of live performances planned for 2025 including festival dates and shows across the UK.
For live bookings contact: sebastianreynoldsmusic@gmail.com
Live shots from The Library, Oxford, 14th February 2025. Photo credit Ian Hanham.
“The feeling of being immersed in something otherworldly takes hold and the invention on show is clear to hear.”
Nightshift Magazine review of The Library show, Oxford, February 2025
Upcoming Shows
Debut Album - Canary
Press for Canary
“Canary gazes into the abyss... a world shaken by explosive events, the fragmentation of our collective consciousness, the rise of machine intelligence, the tragic loss of a child at birth, and the everyday reality of living without one's parents. Yet, amidst this turmoil, Reynolds consistently manages to find a heartbeat in his blend of electro-organic sounds." - Earmilk
"One of my favourite electronic music producers around” - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music
"The expansive electronic songs on “Canary” reflect both a sense of unease about the world’s future and finding hope to carry on" - Bandcamp editorial
“Self-help guidance with the neurons fired-up, the mind open, Canary counterpoints mistrust with wonderment, alarm with the rational and the optimistic. It has taken a while to arrive, but Reynolds debut expanded album of thoughts and ideas is a mature statement of quality.” - Monolith Cocktail
“An opus of beauty, intensely powerful and emotionally intense, adroitly composed and performed. It is evident that Sebastian Reynolds’s moment has come.” - Louder Than War
“A stunning piece of work, it’s about loss, grief and recovery, all feelings expertly and uniquely expressed courtesy of Sebastian’s mastery of electronics.” - Elizabeth Alker, Unclassified, BBC Radio 3