KEYBOARD CHOIR
http://www.myspace.com/thekeyboardchoir
Keyboard Choir try to make music with the turbulence and dynamics of traditional 'ensemble' performances from purely electronic sound sources and 'found sound'. They’ve played shows around the south of England, including headline shows in Oxford, Cambridge and London alongside support slots with Coldcut, Metronomy, The Egg, Fuck Buttons and Frank Turner amongst others. They have also appeared twice at Truck Festival in Steventon, Oxfordshire. If you were there and saw a band full of keyboard players being attacked by a crew of aggressive looking cardboard robots, then that was them.
Their debut album 'Mizen Head to Gascanane Sound' was released recently on Brainlove Records.
"You think of failing white striplights, of the artificial, greenish glow of empty factories"-Plan B Magazine
“The Keyboard Choir create symphonies of sound; multilayered, textural and highly dynamic electronic music that borrows from the likes of the Future Sound Of London and Kraftwerk to create something that is worthy of some praise for its ingenuity alone.” – New Noise.net
THE MONROE TRANSFER
http://www.myspace.com/electricoldwirenoise
The Monroe Transfer are a UK-based, 7-piece group, making beautifully detailed and passionately executed instrumental music on a variety of instruments. They have two forthcoming releases including a unique CD & DVD double-pack of ‘I Dreamt I Was A Hammer And Everything Was Glass’, featuring animated film by Gemma Burditt to be released on Organ Grinder Records and a 10" vinyl on Stereo Test Kit Records.
"At their most beautiful they’re able to lightly brush the places that so few other instrumental acts can...it’s exciting when a band that features not a single singer is able to take you away to someplace other than the here and now on fabulous waves of orchestral sound. The Monroe Transfer, at their most beautiful, are that band." - Drowned in Sound
THE McCARRICKS
http://www.myspace.com/themccarricksmusic
The McCarricks are an internationally known audio visual project comprising cellist Martin McCarrick and violinist Kimberlee McCarrick, together with a collective of highly talented film makers.
The Music – dark, evocative, compelling, hypnotic, unsettling – yet strangely beautiful, flutters between influences ranging from Shostakovich to The Aphex Twin with a mellifluous ease. The live performance sees The McCarricks performing in front of a film screen where shoppers in a Japanese supermarket mix with 1950’s slow motion contortionists via an enchanted forest with the strangest of inhabitants. The imagery captivates and leads the viewer into the imaginations that create this beautiful music.
“…voluptuous melodies that stagger drunkenly and bring a heady richness.” - The Guardian.
“…swirling, sinuous arrangements.” The Times
DJ Bjorn Hatleskog (ADAADAT)
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