
Layale Chaker + Maeve Gilchrist
Smoke Veins
NEWLY DEVELOPED PROJECT
Coming together in an exploration of the threads that stitch our inherited worlds—the whispers of old tales passed down by grandmothers, the shadowed weight of mythologies and superstitions, scattered across time and distance.
Drawing from the musical vocabularies of their respective lineages—Celtic and Levantine—this new duo traces melodic and rhythmical contours shaped by centuries of oral memory. They search for the places where their stories overlap: fields of exile, haunted lands, and songs that carry coded truths.
This is not a reimagining of the past, but an exploration of a shared present - an exploration of what flows through us unseen, like smoke through veins. This suite of music invites the audience to step into a newly formed world, rooted in the past but written for the present day. A brand new mythology.

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