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.
Can you please take the time to watch our new music video "Believe" This video was made by Key Hole Productions an they have put many many hard hours working to make the best that they can an we could'nt be happier with the outcome,its gone far beyond what i could of ever wanted, an it was an amazing experience to work with these focused visionarys, i can't wait to make another one with them already....
I hope you enjoy the video an please leave us a comment with your thoughts as it will be greatly apreiciated my friend....
“Behold, I come! “Hurry! “It's time... “We'll build a grand temple... “The times are piling up... “Whirlwinds gather... “Our homes – destroyed... “The hard soil melts, “And the floodwaters will surround you all.
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 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).
An excellent year for music - including your good selves. Please check out my end of year review podcast for free on http://emancipation. mypodcast. com