Blow your mind, move your feet, with Setsubun space funk treatment!
The UK's most intrepid trio explores Setsubun Carnival with Japanese guest musicians and dancers, direct from Tokyo, presenting a radical electronic reworking of traditional Japanese folk and contemporary rhythm, mixed with space funk, original compositions and live Japanese Bon Dance.
SETSUBUN: traditional Japanese Spring Ceremony with demon-bashing bean-scattering.
JOIN US AS WE BANISH THE DEMONS WITH HEAVY ELECTRONIC FUNK!
"unique, engaging and adventurous."
"the oddest pleasure you'll experience all year." [The Independent]
"some of the most unclassifiable and exhilarating contemporary music you've ever heard." [FROOTS]
"endlessly surprising and enjoyable.....perversely catchy" [Howard Male, The Independent on Sunday]
"the sort of album that will keep revealing hidden treasures on every single subsequent listen" [Boomkat]
"delightful...a diverse album filled with intriguing and inventive sounds" [FLY global music culture]
"Resounded Offbeat Gitarrenlicks, quäkende Bläser and jazz Jams dance together to
constant impact things hissing and electronics humming." [Arno Raffeiner, INTRO.de, interpreted by Google Translate]
"This is unhinged, parallel-universe music, that could only have been made by musicians hell-bent on mischievously redefining exactly what jazz, Japanese folk, and leftfield pop are......I found myself coming back to it over and over again, and finding its daft, dreamy, and sometimes disturbing world more and more compelling with every listen. Each track has its own internal logic and contains enough ideas to sustain any lesser band for their whole career. Simultaneously demanding and undemanding; cerebral and disposable, it's fun and funky stuff." [Howard Male, Songlines October 2007]
"Repeated listening may cause brain implosions. But the happy kind.....
A welcome addition to any slightly obscure and very esoteric record collection, especially if you’re either a toddler or an acid burnout. Either way, there will be smiles and silly dancing."
MITCH ALEXANDER, Rave Magazine, Australia, November 2007
"On stage, among this nine-piece
collective, Juckes is playing
extended birth-inducing tuba solos,
while drummer Flood is twitching
and flailing like Ozzy Osbourne
driving a clown car over a cattle grid.
Meanwhile three women in full
geisha dress are harmonising over a
Dreadzone dub beat as played by
The Egg.
.... amongst all the papier-mâché
dragons and robots there is a subtle,
twisted genius at work in Setsubun
Bean Unit’s culturally crosspollinating
tracks like ‘Gujo Ondo’
and ‘Rettsu Kissu’.
...... the audience are showered
in several tubfuls of dried blackeyed
beans, most of which end up
down my collar and going home
with me in my pants." PAUL CARRERA, Nightshift Magazine, review of Oxford Carling Academy show.
Join us for another Big City Redneck Presents! Another wonderful eruption, nay, ejaculation of good music at the Buffalo Bar this month!
What can I say? We won’t disappoint.
Buffalo Bar June 19th £6 on the door… 8.30pm till they kick us out…
Mama Shamone http://www. myspace. com/mamashamone “Put Mama Shamone on at any venue and they are likely to take the roof off, this was one of the best live shows I’ve seen in years - certainly one of the best in London. In my opinion these guys are destined for greatness, it felt like I was witnessing history being shaped-something was just so right about what they were doing up there.” Vibe Bar
We Yes You No www. myspace. com/weyesyouno “We Yes You No sing about the end of the world, the end of everything. But in an apocalypse that would sound like this I would buy god’s last EP” – Big City Redneck
Language http://www. myspace. com/languageuk “"The verbosity of funk, the poetic twang of intelligent pop. The bridge between Franz Ferdinand and Smashing Pumpkins perhaps" – Bugbear
The Divine Agency presents CLUB INTEGRAL at The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, two minutes from the tube. Friday May 30th, 8.30 PM Entry: £7/£5.
Featuring music from: Roroja 3 Taxi Val Mentek Ninki V Kenny Process Team Superstrings
Taxi Val Mentek "Multimedia hipsters Taxi Val Mentek are back from the art galleries and confront a unsuspecting but fearless audience with a new show: an exhilarating interaction of video art and Electro Surf Sound."
"Where Hungarian trash meets Las Vegas... seeing is believing." Crimson Noise
Superstrings "...the formative stage - a group striving for an emergent identity. Influenced by musique actuelle, '70s European experimentalist rock groups, and the British and Japanese improvising scenes..."
"Superstrings have recorded with The Hand of Glory - aka Lepke Buchwalter; they have also recorded a live show at the Conway Hall with Chris Cornetto and a string section. In addition this year they have performed on stage with Fred Frith, Pat Thomas, Karl Blake, Toolshed, and Su Zhuong."
Kenny Process Team "forward-looking electric guitar music with a rock base, and stylistically is somewhere between the precision control of surf rock groups such as the Ventures and the almost classical compositions Captain Beefheart created in collaboration with guitarists such as Zoot Horn Rollo and Gary Lucas." Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
"kenny process team - perhaps the most jaw dropping band i ever saw live - so many times. ok - not much of a show (they were hardly gwar) but tunes-wise these fellas were a sweet, sweet pickle...beautiful, amazing, indispensable." X-Ray Barbeque
Ninki V "She plays the Theremin and Casio and her songs are very punchy and melodic - J.J. Perrey style old-school electronics. Very charming" temporarycont
The Divine Agency presents CLUB INTEGRAL at The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, two minutes from the tube. Friday May 30th, 8.30 PM Entry: £7/£5.
Featuring music from:
EAquartett Taxi Val Mentek Ninki V Kenny Process Team Superstrings
Info @: team@clubintegral.org www. divineagency. org www. myspace. com/clubintegral
EAquartett
"the perfect exploration of the lucid nature of the static space in Bitches Brew and In a Silent Way"
Taxi Val Mentek
"Multimedia hipsters Taxi Val Mentek are back from the art galleries and confront a unsuspecting but fearless audience with a new show: an exhilarating interaction of video art and Electro Surf Sound."
Superstrings
"...the formative stage - a group striving for an emergent identity. Influenced by musique actuelle, '70s European experimentalist rock groups, and the British and Japanese improvising scenes..."
Kenny Process Team
"kenny process team - perhaps the most jaw dropping band i ever saw live - so many times. ok - not much of a show (they were hardly gwar) but tunes-wise these fellas were a sweet, sweet pickle...beautiful, amazing, indispensable." X-Ray Barbeque On-line Blog Site
Ninki V
"Ninki V creates a unique futurist music for lovestruck cosmonauts" Resonance Radio 104. 4 FM
Setsubun Bean Unit review on my free talk-only podcast on the best of international, experimental or soulful music! On iTunes ('emancipation')
Best wishes for the future! Nick Gray Emancipation This week: Gil Evans comes Out of the Cool, Maxwell's important debut, Aaron Jerome eclectic delight, Nascente's quality compilations, Setsubun Bean Unit's experimental original, Herbert, Pharoah, Jose, Sonar and Jin live, new material, current top 10 and more!
CLUB INTEGRAL at The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube. Friday 28th March 2008 - 8.30 PM - 1.00 AM - Entry £5.00 An evening of peerless music featuring:
I AM A KAMURA
ASTRAKAN
THE NO FRILLS BAND
BOYCOTT COCA COLA EXPERIENCE
DUKE GARWOOD
+ DJ Chris Cornetto, and esoteric projections from Rucksack Cinema...
CLUB INTEGRAL at The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube. Friday 28th March 2008 - 8.30 PM - 1.00 AM - Entry £5.00 An evening of peerless music featuring:
I AM A KAMURA
ASTRAKAN
THE NO FRILLS BAND
BOYCOTT COCA COLA EXPERIENCE
DUKE GARWOOD
+ DJ Chris Cornetto, and esoteric projections from Rucksack Cinema...
DIVINE AGENCY PRESENTS: CLUB INTEGRAL at The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - two minutes from Brixton tube. Friday 28th March 2008 - 8.30 PM - 1.00 AM - Entry £5.00 A evening of peerless music featuring:
I AM A KAMURA - Anglo-Japanese punk diva chanson
THE NO FRILLS BAND - demented folk across the borders
BOYCOTT COCA COLA EXPERIENCE - agit prop green blues
plus special guest...
including platters of delight from DJ Chris Cornetto, and esoteric projections from Rucksack Cinema...
Keep checking your site to see if you are comikng any where near Manchester but so far nothing doing. Hope you do get a booking near here let me know if you do.
Club Integral Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9 - 2 minutes from Brixton tube ~ Thursday November 1st 2007 ~ 8.30 pm - 1am Entry £5
featuring music from: Humi Legendary bassist of Soft Machine Hugh Hopper in collaboration with London-based Japanese composer and performer Yumi Hara Cawkwell. + Jack Shirt "DIY constructs"
Ellen Mary McGee "chanteuse folk"
Sharon Gal and Moshi "vox guitar experiment"
also appearing Crack Librarian "narco word hoarder" + Superstar DJ, the ineffable Chris Cornetto with esoteric projections by Jaime Rory Lucy/Rucksack Cinema info: www.divineagency.org
Thursday September 13th: Club Integral in collaboration with Dynamo Cabaret present a pedal powered event at Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9.
Featuring music from No Frills Trio, The Nobodies, Boycott Coca Cola Experience and a special lecture on corduroy from Richard Thomas. plus DJ Chris Cornetto
Entry £5 Bands: 9.00 to 12.30 Bar: 8.30 until 2.00 Contact: team@clubintegral.org or phone Angelo on 020 7737 0884. Further details: www.electricpedals.com/www.divineagency.org
Thursday October 25th: Club Integral at The Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent Brixton SW9.
Featuring music from legendary avant garde guitarist Fred Frith, plus Superstrings and Julia Vorontsova and DJ Chris Cornetto.
Entry £5 Bands: 9.00 to 12.30 Bar: 8.30 until 2.00 Contact: team@clubintegral.org or phone Angelo 0n 020 7737 0884. Further details: www.divineagency.org
Thursday November 1st: Club Integral in collaboration with Dynamo Cabaret present a pedal powered event at Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton SW9.
Featuring music from Ellen Mary McGee , Jack Shirt and Yumi Hara Cawkwell plus a lecture on British avant garde Cinema by Duncan Reekie from Exploding Cinema, and DJ Chris Cornetto.
Entry £5 Bands: 9.00 to 12.30 Bar: 8,30 until 2.00 Contact: team@clubintegral.org or phone Angelo on 020 7737 0884. Further details: www.electricpedals.com/www.divineagency.org
Hey Gid, cheers for the add. Great sound here and with the Bellowhead project too. I am right in thinking you played with Ian Hamer in SYJO a number of moons ago?
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