Souvaris is a quintet performing "Erudite Instrumental Rock" (actual quote by an A&R man) since the tail end of 2000. Though a couple of dear friends have come and gone as members, there are most definitely no more or less than five of us. We started playing together in a barn in Knebworth; today we all reside in Nottingham. These places are in the United Kingdom. We have a newly redeveloped and quickly expanding website at www.souvaris.com.
All the four tracks you can listen to here are excerpts of longer songs from our second album "A Hat", which is now available direct from our record label Gringo Records and will be distributed to all good independent UK record shops and some international distros for 18th June 2007.
We have toured Europe and the UK twice in 2007, and have done a whole bunch of shows with some excellent bands thanks to some fantastic promoters. We've played with the likes of Crevecoeur, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid, Sincabeza, 28:50, Mea Culpa, Samuel Sharp, oVo, Do Make Say Think, Thee More Shallows, Elephant Micah, L'Ombre de la Souris dans la Deuxieme Lune, aMute, The Sea & Cake, Part Chimp, Bilge Pump, Lords and of course, our good friend Gareth Hardwick.
Current plans for 2008 involve finishing a bunch of the new songs we're writing and playing sporadic live shows as and when they turn up - we are always on the lookout for decent gigs anywhere around the UK and Ireland...
If you would like us to play a gig you are organising, message us here or send an email to us@souvaris.com for details and conditions - we are affordable, flexible and very handsome. Here's a video of us performing at the Gringo Records 10th Anniversary Party in June 2007:
Other Souvaris-related musical projects:
- Apalusa - solo
homemade ambience.
- Bologna Pony -
drone/noise duo.
- Boxes of Foxes - solo homemade
4-track songs.
- Clique Clack - non-profit DIY European booking.
- Damn You! - non-profit
Nottingham gig promotions.
- Iron
Column - DIY 24-track Digital Recording Service.
Portishead Rhythm Section The Blessing LIVE @ Black Carrot Record Deal Party! Saturday 12th July Doors 8pm ~ £7 Tickets The Musician, CLyde Street, Leicester www. wegottickets. com
The Blessing has grown out of trip-hop cult band Portishead's powerful rock-driven rhythm section (drummer Clive Deamer and bass guitarist Jim Barr) with two young jazzers as its front line, in former National Youth Jazz Orchestra trumpeter Pete Judge and tenor saxophonist Jake McMurchie.
Like the popular and sometime Mercury-nominated Acoustic Ladyland, once described as sounding like The Damned with a saxophone, The Blessing couples hard-hitting, high-volume rock with wailing jazz-horn choruses. The group's flat-out drive, fiery virtuosity and strong, anthemic tunes certainly grabbed the audience, including the scattering of older jazz devotees lurking in the shadows like me. And those qualities, plus the association with Portishead's reputation, should bring The Blessing a lot of admirers, some of whom might well go on to discover a wider world of jazz and improvised music. - The GUARDIAN
Black Carrot "are an adventurous improvising group whore mostly acoustic music is shot through with flavours of New York jazz skronk and the loosest, funkiest Krautrock. As with Dragon Or Emperor, Brackley's apparently extemporised vocals seem to flirt with the cadences of composed songforms in a manner indebted to Can's Damo Suzuki, but with an almost psychotic edge." K. Moline ~ The Wire Magazine
Here is France, we want you on tour. I live in the North of France , near Lille and i hope that i will be able to see you as soon as possible. Thanks a lot for your great sound. Lagatoïde
Moose Factory would like to support you and help promote your upcoming gigs. We can do this by reviewing a track/album and uploading an example on our site and possibly reviewing a live show (if we're invited;)). If you'd like this to happen, please send us something to moosefactoryuk@googlemail.com or 223 Ramsay Road, London, E7 9ES. Cheers.
Thank you very much...we try to check on everyones interest's or the sounds they enjoy,..We like what you had going on your page...and figured we would take the chance, you would like what we enjoy the most...and thats make music...but for the most part... now that we got that horrible and cheesy statement out of the way....this looks like another typical, but somewhat long band comment... But heck at least its a comment... Right?
Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! Saturday 10th May 2007 CASTNETS - JESSE SYKES - BRENDAN CASEY £6 /£8 Door Doors 8pm til 2am
CASTANETS: Castanets is American music drowned then reborn clear-eyed and wet with sea spray. Castanets is murderous nights and the 10 west sunset and crying gulls. Castanets is Raymond Raposa. Castanets is Raymond Raposa alone, walking through the dark and crowded dancefloor, singing bare voiced (rangy, high, cracked and real) with acoustic guitar. Castanets is a four-piece or a five-piece, six-piece, seven-piece, all-of-us-everywhere-piece stomping out electric tombstone chants or something that sounds like Pink Floyd with more heart. Castanets is delta heart, Nashville hands, outer space brain. Castanets is Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty, 2004)
JESSE SYKES The band that started as a duo of Jesse Sykes and former Whiskeytown band member Phil Wandscher began writing and playing together and later brought on the rest of the Sweet Hereafter, as they are now known. The new album sees Sykes displaying a more weathered vocal style and the band a more produced sound. There are some really upbeat tunes on the album like “You Might Walk Away” and “I Like The Sound”. With the latter bringing to mind a Grace Slick sound and the former with a tipping of the cap to Cat Power.
Hope you're all OK?? We have a few upcoming shows to tell you about so if you fancy popping along then do let us know and we'll arrange some form of free/cheap entry for you! The dates are as follows:
28th April - Liverpool Carling Academy, Supporting Envy & Other Sins
2nd May - Nottingham Bodega Social, Supporting Twisted Wheel
5th May - Cambridge Barfly, Supporting Twisted Wheel
6th May - Northampton Soundhaus, Supporting Twisted Wheel
28th May - Manchester Academy 2, Supporting Bob Mould
Thanks to everyone that has purchased our debut E.P 'THE RECOVERY' and a reminder to those who haven't bought it yet it is available from itunes and gigantic. com. We also have a brand new website at the address below where you can play pong!
<<<<<< Curtis Eller with Men Diamler >>>>> Thursday 19th April Taylor Johns House - Canal Basin Coventry 6 QUID TICKET or 8 QUID DOOR Doors 8pm til late 024 76 559 958 or WWW. TINANGELTICKETS. CO. UK
Curtis Eller plays distinctive banjo in a rhythmic and blues/rock inflected way. He contorts his body as he plays and does shivering, cowering, menacing and just plain deranged balancing things with one leg wrapped over the banjo neck throughout the set. He climbs onto and off of a chair, he calls up serpents and plays a kazoo. His face dances around his silent movie moustache and he gets the crowd to sing that Buster Keaton can't be beaten. (Whisperin & Hollerin) WWW. CURTISELLER. COM
MEN DIAMLER'S songs are like a Tourettes-syndrome skat, with diahorric flood of emotion. Single chords give the structure for the outburst. By the end, we’re all charmed. (Plan B) WWW. MYSPACE. COM/MENDIAMLER
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