Short Bio
Gary Albert is an award-winning music maker and performer, conscious DJ, writer and creator of Pleasure Medicine — a bi-weekly evening of sensual connection and conscious dance for GBTQ men in Hackney, East London.
With over a decade of experience as a therapist, and currently training as a Somatic Embodied Sexologist, Gary is devoted to helping GBTQ men unlock their pleasure centres, soften shame and rediscover joy, intimacy and sensuality through embodied dance and celebratory sexuality.
Gary is a columnist for queer culture magazine QX Magazine and writes personal story and opinion pieces as well as cultural analysis all from the perspective of being in the waters with the reader, trying to work it all out…
Long Bio
Gary Albert's award-winning, captivating music and live concert experiences blur the boundaries between contemporary, poetic, neoclassical and impressionistic sounds infused with an evocative electronic undertone and a spine-tingling, cinematic flair. Critics have called his work “a multi-instrumental dream”, “a one-man cosmic symphony” and “beautiful with unforgettable music”.
The Queer East London artist has taken audiences on transportive sonic voyages with headline appearances at venues such as Wilderness Festival and Wonderment Festival two years in a row, as well as his double bill of sold-out Central London concerts, earning him four 5-star press reviews and four awards including “Best Performance Music Video", “Best Sound Design”, “Best Live Performance” and “Best Live Performance On Film”.
Other career highlights over the last 20 years include performing solo alongside Brian May and Kerry Ellis at Royal Albert Hall, composing the score for and starring in E4's hit series ‘Playing It Straight', taking to the stage alongside Judi Dench for Stephen Sondheim's 80th Birthday Prom, and performing as part of sensational orchestral pop collective The Irrepressibles as their flautist.
Harmonising a timeless sense of organic musicality with his fluttering flutes, pulsing pianos and velvet vocals, Gary Albert intricately weaves masterful loops, hypnotic layers and a tapestry of dreamlike FX for a transportive musical journey to remember.