Silvi Wersi: vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, melodica, drum pads, kazoo, tambourine... Mawe N. Klave: vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel, melodica, old drum boxes, theramin, megaphone...
Silvi lives in London and also plays in Radio Darling.
Mawe lives in Hamburg and has another long-distance band called The Voltarenes.
Influences
Belle And Sebastian, Broadcast, C86, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Elliott Smith, ESG, Kimya Dawson, Kraftwerk, Magnetic Fields, Moldy Peaches, Mountain Goats, New Order, Of Montreal, Pet Shop Boys, Pop Tarts, The Halo Benders, The Hidden Cameras, Shop Assistants, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Smiths, Smog, Stereolab, Television Personalities, Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan, Tripophon, Velvet Underground, The Vaselines, Violent Femmes, Yo La Tengo, Young Marble Giants, and ...Heavy Metal in general.
Many thanks to everyone who came to our recent gigs in Germany! And everyone who fed us, helped us create the mayhem and put us to bed every night! You were fabulous!
Special thanks go out to the KNIGHTS OF LOVE and TRIKE who shared gigs with us and are both fantastic bands! MUCH MUCH LOVE!
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
1. Alien Monsters
2. Let's Kiss and Listen to Bis
3. Bad Hair Days
4. I Never Get Much Sleep On Weekdays
5. Morrissey
6. Peggy Moffitt Look-alikes
7. Drum Machines Will Save Mankind
8. Disco Fantasy
9. We Love You
10. The Kids Are All Shite
11. See You Next Tuesday
12. Evil Customer
13. Flat Hair
14. Focus On It
MONSTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (KOMA21) – This is not a tribute album
1. Plaste und Elaste – Focus On It
2. The USA – Alien Monsters
3. Peer – Sechsundneunzig
4. Subterfuge – Bad Hair days
5. Archie Mueller – Morrissey
6. Lattekohlertor – Peggy Moffit Look-Alikes
7. The Green Apple Sea – Drum Machines Will Save Mankind
8. Supershirt – The Kids Are Teit
9. Zimmer – See You Next Tuesday
10. Seattle Or Some – Focus On It
11. The Voltarenes – Morning Bus
Our debut album "Gleichstrom/Wechselstrom" is available, too: Vinyl (white)/Download from here and the CD from here.
"Mikrofisch intelligently deconstruct the world they live in while paying unironic tribute to the music they love. (...) This album is a bit like finding a He-Man action figure inside a Kinder egg: a nostalgic but nerdy cool surprise inside a sweet, waxy chocolate shell. The perfect gift for a generation who know too much to care very much."
(Condemned to Rock 'N Roll Blog)
"And these people sure know how to write a catchy tune! Let's Kiss and listen to Bis will have post-fanzine-glitterkids era twentysomethings in throes of nostalgia/happily shuffledancing around their tourposter-clad bedrooms. It's a fabulous song, with ace 80s style synths and it's even namechecking the Afghan Wigs."
(i shot the deputy)
"The Hamburg/London duo sound like a sublime merging of Echo & the Bunnymen (when Echo, the band's "drummer," was just a drum machine) and the Hacienda-cum-basement-dance-party."
(bibabidi.com)
""The first song, 'Drum Machines Will Save Mankind' serves as a kind of mission statement for Mikrofisch in their understated quest to take over the musical universe: 'Play a beat so we can dance, make the kids form bedroom bands.'"
(3hive.com)
""Silvi Wersi und Mawe N Klave ist ein kleines Indiepop-Meisterwerk gelungen. 'Masters Of The Universe' ist Nerdcore par excellence. Es wird ein Referenzteppich geknüpft, der so dicht ist, dass er jedes Glatteis, auf das man sich bei so viel Zitaten begeben könnte, überdeckt."
(taz popblog (Album des Monats))
"Die Klangzitate versehen sie mit irrsinnigen Melodien – schon für den an die guten Tage von The Cure erinnernden Ohrwurm Alien Monsters lohnt der Kauf, ähm, das Sichschenkenlassen des ganzen Albums."
(Zeit.de)
Lineup: ..Kavinsky (Paris) Dadajugendpolyform (Kulmbach) Kinky White Horse (Hessen) Terrible Eagel (USA Two for the Show (Berlin) Ratkat (HH) The Haina (HH)..
Pierpaolo Scuro's new record, "Canzoni leggere per giorni strani", is on-line! You can buy it in the best digital store! It's available a preview on myspace!
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