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K O N K P A C K
Tim Hodgkinson (GB) lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinets
Thomas Lehn (D) analogue synthesizer
Roger Turner (GB) drumsets and percussion
The group met at Szuenetjel Festival in Budapest 1997.
Tours in Italy and Netherlands followed. We did a live broadcast for BBC Mixing It. We began to tour regularly, recorded 2 albums for the Cologne-based GROB label, and played a sold-out concert in London with Derek Bailey.
CD RELEASES:
1999, 'Big Deep' (GROB.102)
2001, 'Warp Out' (GROB.323)
2004, 'Off Leash'(GROB.654)
all released on GROB, www.grobcologne.de
FESTIVAL APPEARANCES:
Victoriaville, FIMAV 2000
Vandoeuvre, Musique Action 2000
Mhere/F, Fruits de Mhere 2000
Wels/A, Music Unlimited 2000
Bourges/F, Synthese Festival 2001
Nickelsdorf/A, Konfrontationen 2001
Ann Arbor/USA, Edge Festival 2001
Seattle, Earshot Jazzfest 2001
Prague, Alternativa Festival 2001
Bratislava/SK, Next Music Festival 2001
Utrecht/Rotterdam, Rumor Festival 2001
Belgrade, ring ring festival 2002
Mulhouse, Jazz a Mulhouse 2002
Mhere/F, Fruits de Mhere 2003
Seattle, Earshot Jazzfest 2003
Vancouver, Dangerous Currents Festival 2003
Nottingham, Now 2006
Barcelona, LEM 2006
TOURS:
1998: Italy
1999: Holland
2000: UK, Germany and France
2001: UK, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Holland
Czech Republic and USA
2002: UK, Germany, Austria,
2003: UK, Italy, Canada, France
2004: UK, France, Germany, Austria
2005: UK
2006: UK
PRESS:
"Grob label artists Konk Pack are utterly awesome. Featuring Thomas Lehn on the craziest old EMS synthi A, Tim Hodgkinson on flat guitar and Roger Turner on percussion, the show is awkwardly brilliant and defiant. With startling combinations of punkish nuisance, ingenious change-ups, and rolling, stumbling, tripping and flipping sound inventions, Konk Pack are one of the most exciting Improv groups in the world."
Lee Henderson reviewing Vancouver Electric City in The Wire, Dec 2003
"Heralded by a release on the Grob label - Big Deep, recorded in Rome, Tilburg and Brussels - Konk Pack's appearance at a central London venue attracted a sell-out crowd. The accelerated,interactive electronica of Roger Turner (percussion), Tim Hodgkinson (deconstructed tabletop guitar) and Thomas Lehn (analogue synth) arises from a scintillating heap of sonic detritus the way an artificial intelligence manifests itself in a Manga movie: a writhing mass of automobiles, arcade consoles, street furniture and mobile phones. Hodgkinson attacks his amplified strings with plectrum and bow, his specs glinting as he waits for the right awkward moment to kloodge a sonic shard on the side of one of Turner's amazingly vocalised motifs (at times you swear you hear collaborator Phil Minton's mucal snorts). Lehn restricts his pianism on analogue synth to pinched blurts, but still manages to resemble a switched-on Liszt. Although we itched to interrupt with applause, Konk Pack played an unbroken 45 minute set: fun debris, rollicking freakouts ... and one magical section of scrape and pling where the music seemed to play itself." Ben Watson The Wire, April 2001
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