'runs against the grain and yet reiterates the possibilities of communication that the pop song embodies: music that speaks of a locale, we might even say (unfashionably) a community. Laboratoires Murphy provide useful ammunition for those whose faith in the marginal and the progressive is not entirely spent' - Wire Magazine
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'truly eccentric and absolutely out of step with any known fashion, past or present, though obliquely familiar to many of them' - Chris Cutler
Founded in the dark ages of the eighties, the Murphy Foundation has since materialised in many formations and a multitude of styles, whilst never straying far from that most basic tool of communication: the pop song. Comic and poetic, with a diversity that makes them difficult to categorise, Laboratoires Murphy are one outcome of the realisation that 'we can do anything'. - Click on VIDEO to view the band live at Club Integral.
Club Integral @ Whitechapel Gallery, 18th December 2009.
Featuring music from Lotus Pedals, Nobodies, MayMing, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience and Jack Shirt. + DJ Chris Cornetto and projections from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema
Lotus Pedals: - "Gorgeous live music from the supremely strange Lotus Pedals, who remained on stage throughout the show...shambolic, bold and beautiful...offers truly unique rewards." Beccy Smith - British Theatre Guide.
How are you?..
And what have you been up to these days?
I've moved from Portland, OR down to Monterey..
I know it's been forever and a day, and I'm sorry!
But.. I've actually and finally posted a New Blog :)
Hope you'll stop by to read it?
oox Catherine B.
I suppose it was you guys that sent me a copy of "Nobodies - Cup of Tea" in the mail. I'd just like to thank you, it's now one of my personal favorites!
DR. DUCKENSTEIN IS READY FOR THE NEXT PATIENT. BE PART OF HIS AUDIOTERRESTRIAL CONSULTATION HOUR AND LISTEN TO THE BRAND NEW DUCKULA TRACK: DUCKENSTEIN'S TWIST
24 Apr 2009, 20:30 - Club Integral @ The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, 2 minutes from Brixton tube. London, SW9 UK £5 before 9.00/£7 after Featuring Patten, Glassglue, The Nobodies and The Sibylling Sisters (Sibyl Madrigal, Kay Grant and Armorel Weston). Entry £5 before 9.00 PM/£7 after. Doors open 8.30 until late. DJ Chris Cornett/projections by Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema. Info: www.divineagency.org/www.myspace.com/clubintegral. - Patten " ...the listener is drawn into a simplified world of ordered purposeful harmony, as microscopic in its exquisite detail as the music of the spheres is vast and expansive in its wonder" Wire magazine - Glassglue "vocalist Marcel Stoetzler... holds fort with a half-theatrical, half-knowing line in delivery and patter, whilst Matthew Karas, Gianluca Galetti and Emyr Tomos stagger with poise around the margins of time signatures." Takingnotes.org.uk The Nobodies "The Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir des nos jours.... tragic, haunting and very funny". Resonance Radio
CLUB INTEGRAL PRESENTS - HEXA / BENJAMIN BRUNEL / THE NOBODIES/THE BOYCOTT COCA-COLA EXPERIENCE
Club Integral present two concerts featuring Hexa from Manhattan, NYC on 20th and 22nd February at The Canterbury Arms in Brixton and Cafe Oto in Dalston
20th February: Club Integral 8:30 PM Friday 20th February 2009 Featuring irrepressible, adrenalized garage-band paeans from New York's finest - Hexa; mournful ballads about relationship breakup, with laughs, from the Nobodies; and agit-prop blues from Boycott Coca-Cola Experience. Entry: £5 before 9pm and £7 after 9pm. Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, London SW9 7QD. (two minutes from Brixton tube)
22nd February: Club Integral @ Cafe Oto 8:00 PM Sunday 22nd February 2009 Hexa play an acoustic set. Singer/composer Benjamin Brunel plays a piano set of his caustic and original songs. Arch miserablists The Nobodies perform tragic cheap tavern songs about love. Entry £5 before 9.00 PM £7 after. Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8
Club Integral At The Grosvenor, 17 Sydney Road, Stockwell, London SW9 0TP SUNDAY 15TH FEBRUARY A Resonance Radio Benefit Gala (4.00 PM - 11.00 PM), featuring music from: Jowe Head and The Demi-Monde (Swell Maps), Tetine (Soul Jazz Records), Proxy Music, Oscillatorial Binnage, The Temperatures, Superstrings, Steve Greekshire, Raagnagrok, No Frills Band, Frank Bagay and The Topsy Turvy Band. Global filmic magic from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema and music from the ineffable DJ Chris Cornetto. Vegan food will be available. Entry: £5 Info: 020 7737 0884 www. divineagency. org/www. myspace. com/clubintegral
TETINE "Brazilian duo Tetine were a huge inspiration on CSS, who turn up here for a typically boisterous remix. The original is the prime-pick, though, a joyful playground chant of pop Baile Funk." Fact Magazine"Always i"A
"The off-kilter, mutated funk, electro and sound manipulation that comprises this inventive and gravely album is an absolute treat." Joe Shooman, PLAN B, June 2008
THE TEMPERATURES "The Temperatures again prove that they are one of London's most spasmodically captivating outfits with the release of their first LP, Ymir (Heat Retention). The previous 7" aktion has been good (particularly the debut 7" on 4th Harmonic), but this record drags the whole drum/bass/duo concept into a new sludgier realm. They don't so any of the proto-prog calesthetics of Lightning Bolt, but prefer to just roll around in muzz. Which is a fairly admirable alternative, eh?" Thurston Moore
CLUB INTEGRAL on Friday 30th January 2009 - 8.00 PM until late. At THE CANTERBURY ARMS, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube station.
Entry: £5 before 9.00 PM, £7.00 after.
Featuring music from: Trumpet and beats duo LOOP ELLINGTON Avant-garde wayfarers KOBAYASHI Australian folk chansonniers THE DOOMED BIRD OF PROVIDENCE. + a special guest to be announced.
With projections from JAIME RORY LUCY of RUCKSACK CINEMA DJs CHRIS CORNETTO and KARINA TOWSEND (Chalkwell Ladies).
Hey there, LB! How's it going over there on the "mainland"? :) Sending you my best wishes for a Peaceful, Prosperous, Creative and VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009! lots of love, oox Catherine
Club Integral Pre- Yule Party - an early festive fiesta...
13th December 2008 at The Grovesnor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, London SW9 0TP
An unmissable night of music from London's home to the unpredictable... Jack Shirt - one-man machine-tooled psychedelia The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience - green-tinged agit-prop blues The No Frills Band - feral folk troubadours Superstrings - 2 : King and Cornetto - sick jazz + special guests - Popskulls - tunes from the boneyard Plus esoteric projections from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema and music from legendary DJ Chris Cornetto
Tuesday 4th November - 8.00pm until late: The Grovesnor, 17 Sydney Road, SW9 - near Stockwell tube. Hosted by The Boycott Coca Cola Experience, featuring music from Superstrings and Oscillatorial Binnage. Falco Subbuteo and Lewis Floyd Henry - and the esoteric projections of Rucksack Cinema. Also showing an exclusive video presentation by Max Keiser, infamous economics journalist and presenter of the iconoclastic Resonance Radio programme "The Truth About Markets". Entry £3
Hi, Handsome! Long time no hear.. what's new? Hope all is going well with your music.. I was just played on the radio in Berkeley, Cali :) Dropping in to say "hi" and to wish you a great weekend, as well! oox Catherine Suchitra
featuring music from: Pikachu-Makoto Millefeuille Yakuza I am a Kamura Shimmy Rivers and and Canal
The Acid Mothers Temple Soul Collective step out in yet more avatars as Pikacyu- Makoto, and Millefeuille Yakuza. This will be the first time either group has played in UK.
Pikachu-Makoto: featuring Drums - Pikachu (Afrirampo) and Guitar + and vocals - Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) "To the strains of Kawabata’s hurdy-gurdy Pikachu took to the stage in the guise of the little psych girl before the duo threw down a barrage of guitar-drum based heavy improvised psychedelia". www. acidmotherstemple. com
Millefeuille Yakuza: featuring Mitsuru Tabata (Zeni Geva/Boredoms), Koji Shimura (Mainliner/High Rise, Acid Mothers Temple), and Hiroshi Higashi (Acid Mothers Temple). The band is a complete mystery - if you want to know what they are like you had better be there. Great name though!
+ avant-garde funsters Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, and Japanese chanson from London-based I am a Kamura, fronted by legendary Tokyo punk diva and ex-Frank Chicken Atsuko Kamura.
"Out-rock, angular, lo-fi...the performances immediately evocative, the melodies memorable, the lyrics unusual, and great rock/musical ideas abound...Shimmy Rivers and And Canal do more with less than just about any 'rock' band in recent memory." forcedexposure. com
"Atsuko Kamura is a singer of rare emotional acuity, no one sings like this anymore - Dare we say it? Yes we do - Diva!" - Resonance Radio 104.4 FM
Illuminated by the esoteric projections of Rucksack Cinema. The world in a suitcase.
Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East July 10th –THIS THURSDAY Doors: 7pm £6.50
This is our first 93 Feat East gig and we’re happy to be gracing this illustrious stage so look out for special door price offers a few days before the gig… Or you can buy in advance here: http://www. wegottickets. com/event/32336
