Art-rock artist, singer songwriter, guitarist GRICE presents his unique brand of sonic alchemy through a deeply personal set of powerful and intricate songs.

Following last year’s sold out show, GRICE returns to Exeter Phoenix with a new line-up: Robert Brian on drums (Siouxsie Sioux, Simple Minds, Goldfrapp) – Al Swainger on bass & Duncan Chave (programming). Grice will be performing for the first time songs from his award winning album ‘Polarchoral’, his back catalogue ‘one thousand birds’ & ‘Propeller’ and his latest album ‘Mordant Lake’.

Charged with pop sensibility and art-rock energy, GRICE and the Polarchoral Band set co-ordinates for a journey through dark and sometimes challenging waters, gliding between neo-psychedelic rock, nuJazz and art rock, creating a cocktail of emotive songs mixed with hints of electronica and electro-acoustic glitch set to stunning visuals and films created by GRICE.

‘Polarchoral is a sonic satellite launched into the darkness in search for unity, reconciliation and healing in a fractured and polarised world.’ G

GRICE’s signature sound of art-rock and avant-pop synthesis have led to successful collaborations with his profile musicians: Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North), Hossam Ramzy (Peter Gabriel), Raphael Ravenscroft (Pink Floyd) and B J Cole (Elton John, Marc Bolan, Scott Walker).

GRICE has been championed by Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music and his album Polarchoral was voted Best Album of the Year in the Indie Prog Awards (NY).

‘A beautiful, dramatic, thought-provoking album, and in a world that currently seems to dwell in negativity, it offers hope’ – The Progressive Aspect

‘Gorgeously epic’- BBC 6 Music | Tom Robinson

‘Holly Turners tip of the week’ – BBC Music Introducing

‘Grice is following Lynch’s passageway to Twin Peaks, but into a whole different background’ – Echoes & Dust

‘One of the most impressive and accessible forays into the esoteric underbelly of British rock music’ – PearShaped magazine

‘“Hypnotizing and spiritually medicating – 4.5 glacial harmonics – Prog Rogue

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