Ben 'The Studio Wizard'Hooper on drums, jack 'The Knife' Smith on guitars, Vienna 'bioluminescent'Shilling on bass & vocals & 'Ian 'The Subliminal Kid' Brzozowski on guitar and voice.
Influences
Alcohol, Coffee, tea, 2 for the price of one offers, Sebadoh, hats, cheese, toys in crackers, sloe gin, house parties, comics,heartbreak, bagels, cats, William Burroughs, bee husbandry, oology, inappropriate laughter, clairaudience, Xenoglossy, 4-track tape recorders, appports,
breakfast cereals, jokes on lolly-sticks, Country Teasers, house plants, photo-montage, abject misery, British weather, vague nostalgia, abandoned buildings, un-returned phonecalls, nameless dread, unexplainable euphoria, letters never sent.
Sounds Like
Sounds just like.....well, our debut album - The Mystery Calculator - is finished.
You'll be able to buy a shiny new copy, or even several copies right here soon.
Or, just contact us here and we'll send you one.
Hello there.
We are a group of four, Ian (The Subliminal Kid) Brzozowski, Ben (Studio Wizard) Hooper, Jack (The Knife) Smith & Vienna (bioluminescent) Shilling. We all reside in fairly close proximity in London’s sprawling and beautiful South-East. We meet regularly to infuse one-another with ideas of a musical nature. We sometimes have to clamber over knotted wires, salvaged electrical goods and broken instruments when we visit each other’s pads, being extra-careful not to knock over an empty beer can or cup of tea. We are sometimes joined by the Min[[[[[iframe]]]]]s, Jess (cello), Claire (viola), Dawn (Violin) & Xandrija (violin). Sometimes Tarqs comes along and plugs in his keyboard. We were thrown out of our old studio (The Polling Station) by 'developers' bent on a faceless concrete take-over of SE8, SE14 & its surrounds. BUT ANYWAY - the big news is that we have, despite these setbacks, and after a couple of years, many late nights, lots of work and a LOT OF LOVE finished our debut album.
THE MYSTERY CALCULATOR is finished and you'll soon be able to order it here and on our website - meanwhile, contact us here at our Myspace for a C.D.
the Mystery Calculator was recorded live over two days at rampART - ostensibly a squat in Whitechapel. We then had the fun, the mystery, the trauma of recording strings & piano, re-recording strings & piano, mixing, mastering; and now we hand it over to you, dear listener, for your dismissal or gradual acceptance........
The nature of the tunes & lyrics is echoed in the bands choice of scarves and other winter clothing. Sometimes the songs are itchy like woolly socks; they rub and make sore the forehead like a thick, rough hat. Some moments it's more like wearing a blue balaclava through salved lips. We can be a satanic lover that flies at night and appears as a fiery light, a will o' the wisp, or as a bird of fire. Some songs become worn and have to be darned. Sometimes we use elastic bands to keep our socks up. Sometimes we wear a hat with a feather. Sometimes during rehearsal there is the appearance of ball lightning in the room. It does not look like lightning. Instead, it usually appears as a mysterious glowing sphere, which drifts horizontally through the air. It is typically the size of a grapefruit, but sometimes appears as small as a pea, or as large as a bus. It sometime hovers over us at a few feet or tens of feet altitude, but can also bounce along the ground. It usually lasts only a few seconds, but sometimes persists much longer. Sometimes it changes colours, and sometimes it has internal structures such as glowing layers or moving sparks. We like to strum and thrum with electricity. We do minor repairs. We also like to read, do collage or paint. Although none of us ever weave baskets, paint enamel figures or stuff animals I don't think. We own several cats between us. We endorse the use of four track tape recorders. We endorse not song composition, but song decomposition. Some of our music, when collectively worked on over a period of weeks, is in an advanced state of decomposition. We play these works in live contact with other people. We smile inside when disseminating abroad these. Sometimes we are lugubrious. Sometimes this takes place on a slightly raised platform. It's easier for people to see us there. We don't like mean, nasty venues that pinch the pocket, thumb their nose, and raise the devils bouncer. But their empire is crumbling, and the day is not far off when it shall break apart entirely. On that day, the old stone gods will rise from their long forgotten wreckage and rub from their eyes the dust of a thousand years' sleep.
THANX ALOT FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP AND WELCOME TO MYSPACE OF "MOCCA LOUNGE".
Have a listen to the Album with the following tracks and composers.
1. YALNIZIM - Burhan Bayar
2. THE VOILENT(Colored Mountains) - Mikis Teodorakis, Yannis Teodorakis
3. GÜLÜMCAN - Murat Isbilen
4. BAHAR - Makis Ablianitis / Dragan Dautovski
5. BELALIM - Zülfü Livaneli
6. ELLIPSE - Gionis Karalis
7. OY ASIYE - Ömer Akpinar
8. SARI GELIN - Anonim
9. DAG ATESI - Ismet Tascesme
10. YANA YANA - Ismet Tascesme
11. LOVE SECRET - Makis Ablianitis / Dragan Dautovski
12. I LOVE YOU - Hassan Isikkut
13. SECRET LOVE - Yorghos Starianos
14. NIHAVENT ORIENTAL - Traditional-Turkey
15. CAMLIK - Murat Ertugrul
Hi there, we're playing the Camden Barfly this Thursday on a bill featuring Minus IQ and our friends Attention All Shipping. We're on very early - 7. 30 - so why not come along for a post-work gig? It's a great venue and it may be a last chance to hear some favourite songs before we re-work our set over the next few months.
Hello!Thanx for the add!Keep checking back to our page to hear our latest single Pole Dancer(produced by Pete Shelley from the Buzzcocks)!Its being released on March 30th!It'd be great if u could comment us letting us know what u think of the songs!Thank u! Cheers,Billy! xREDTRACK
The 2nd release on Needlesoup is out now! Kufr EP is by our long-time favourite The Rebel. Masterminded by Ben Wallers of the Country Teasers, it's gem of ingenious, irreverent, song-writing originality, and you can get a taste on our myspace page. In keeping with Needlesoup's ethos of treating every release as a work of art, the sleeves are handprinted on watercolour paper & as special as the music itself. To order/for more info see our website:
Support our labour of love and the alternative arts - you don't have to be wealthy to be a philanthropist!
Hello there.
We are a group of four, Ian (The Subliminal Kid) Brzozowski, Ben (Studio Wizard) Hooper, Jack (The Knife) Smith & Vienna (bioluminescent) Shilling. We all reside in fairly close proximity in London’s sprawling and beautiful South-East. We meet regularly to infuse one-another with ideas of a musical nature. We sometimes have to clamber over knotted wires, salvaged electrical goods and broken instruments when we visit each other’s pads, being extra-careful not to knock over an empty beer can or cup of tea. We are sometimes joined by the Min[[[[[iframe]]]]]s, Jess (cello), Claire (viola), Dawn (Violin) & Xandrija (violin). Sometimes Tarqs comes along and plugs in his keyboard. We were thrown out of our old studio (The Polling Station) by 'developers' bent on a faceless concrete take-over of SE8, SE14 & its surrounds. BUT ANYWAY - the big news is that we have, despite these setbacks, and after a couple of years, many late nights, lots of work and a LOT OF LOVE finished our debut album.
THE MYSTERY CALCULATOR is finished and you'll soon be able to order it here and on our website - meanwhile, contact us here at our Myspace for a C.D.
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