Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor) with support from Heavy Lifting

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Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor) with support from Heavy Lifting

Wednesday 18 November 2026 · Doors 19:00

Bishops' House, Sheffield

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Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor) with support from Heavy Lifting is on Wednesday 18 November 2026 at Bishops' House, Sheffield, with doors at 19:00. Tickets start at £13.20, including the booking fee.

Zach Rowden is a musician based in New Haven, Connecticut. His work is focused in the areas of drone, repetitive structures and noise. Collaborators and projects include - Tongue Depressor, Hyperion Ensemble/Iancu Dumitrescu, Windscour, Red Yellow Blue Green Black, Leila Bordreuil, Aki Onda, Arien Wilkerson, and Paul Flaherty. Touring to support his new album "Time Unstated, Hues Unseen". A tape loop repeating, posing mundane questions to the listener: "Am I different because you are different from one moment to the next; or, am I different because I am different from myself from one moment to the next?" It is hard to tell. The ebb and flow of difference and repetition always produces a psychedelic interrogation. Where were you when you first heard me? Who were you when you first heard me? Are you still there? Are you still the same person? Breathing in and out is sort of similar. Something we do continuously as a matter of survival. One breath is not so different from the next, but each breath is also a seemingly singular event, a repetition bleeding into its own repetition. Is listening any different? One sound bleeding into the next, as if beginnings and endings fail to matter....

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