Most of the Kumo catalogue is available for streaming here:
2nd Kumo Podcast online now click here:
Metapolis EP
available for download on iTunes
Listen to the 1st Kumo Podcast here:
Deutsche Version hier:
Irmin Schmidt & Kumo Podcast
Irmin Schmidt, founder of Can, the influential experimental rock group and breakbeat pioneer Kumo discuss their collaboration on their new album Axolotl Eyes. All 8 Parts now available.
Kumo came into existence in 1994 when Jono Podmore began work at Watershed Studios and with Plink Plonk records, founding 2 sister labels to Plink Plonk: Autoi and Psychomat. He began to play the Theremin, developing new techniques for live performance of electronic music.
After a string of singles and remixes as Kumo, March 1997 saw the release of his first album Kaminari to significant critical acclaim. A series of live dates and international DJ commitments followed, including the Essential Music Festival, the Sonar festival, and the Graz Biennale.
1997 was also the year that Jono moved temporarily to France to work as co-producer, sound designer and sound engineer with Irmin Schmidt (of Can) on his opera Gormenghast which premiered in 1998, and was re-staged in 2004. A selection from the opera was released on Spoon/Mute records in 2000 (Spoon 44).
October 2000 saw the release of the 2nd Kumo album 1+1=1 on Spoon Records (Spoon 46).
In 2001, after extensive touring including the Sonar festival, the London Jazz Festival and the Can Solo Projects tour, the first Irmin Schmidt and Kumo album Masters of Confusion (Spoon 45) was released worldwide. Later the same year they created the sound installation Flies, Guys and Choirs for the Barbican Centre as part of the Elektronik festival. The installation is now available as a sonic experience for public spaces. The duo continue to perform and give workshops together across Europe and at festivals such as Montreux Jazz, Sonar, Triptych etc. They also work on film and TV music together including award winning German TV series and dramas.
In 2002 Jono also worked on new projects in Germany, Switzerland and the U.K (with B.J Cole and Jaki Liebezeit amongst others) and a the track EP Kumo and Friends (e-tones 009) was released on Electric Tones Records in early 2003.
A successful collaboration with BJ Cole was released on the album Trouble in Paradise and, after further live appearances together, work began on a 2nd Irmin Schmidt and Kumo album - Axolotl Eyes.
As work continued on Axolotl Eyes, the duo also made remixes (incl. P.I.L); performed live and gave workshops in Germany and Portugal; and, produced the album dot i/o for Japanese artist Mito Ichikawa released on P-Vine records, December 2006.
Axolotl Eyes was completed in May 2007 released on Spoon/Mute in May 2008. The 7 track album comes with a bonus DVD containing the complete sound installation Flies, Guys and Choirs in 5.1, accompanied by a 2 hour film by Jono and Sandra Podmore with Kate Shipp. The piece has been installed at the Sonar festival, Barcelona, the Chants Mechaniques Festival, Lille and in November 08 at the White Noise Festival, Newquay.
More info available here - www.myspace.com/irminschmidtandkumo
A four track Kumo ep entitled Metapolis is available now on iTunes and further releases are planned.
Jono lives in London with his wife Sandra and daughter Lara, and is currently developing a major multimedia project.
3 GRACES - a new film from Available Resources Film Co-op
Original music by Kumo
Flies, Guys and Choirs - Excerpt 1
The first of 3 extracts from our sound installation that's now available on DVD - order online from Amazon or any other good stockist
Flies, Guys and Choirs - Excerpt 2
Quiescence - Photography Exhibition and Sound installation. Photography by McCoy Wynne and Sound by Kumo
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Dedicated to all the women, men, gays, lesbians or heteros, to all who have different politic opinions who are persecuted all over the world by laws, dictature, religions and corrupted states. From north to south, from west to east...
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?
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