Superstrings began in early 2005 as an improvising three-piece rock group employing guitar, drums and vocals with the intention of collaborating with a series of musicians and recording a collection of instant compositions by the end of the year. To catch the band live at the moment is to witness 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 are making themselves in no image, instead allowing the music to form the band.
Simon King's guitar playing, doctored with effects and cannibalised electronic toys, becomes braided through with the clattering percussion of drummer Paul May, and the sinuous and sometimes disturbingly intense vocal attack of legendary Japanese punk chanteuse Atsuko Kamura.
The band have already recorded two albums, the first featuring the imperious CD and mini-disc manipulations of The Hand of Glory - aka Lepke Buchwalter; the second being a live recording at Conway Hall with strings.
In addition this year they have performed on stage with Fred Frith, Pat Thomas, Karl Blake, Toolshed, and Su Zhuong.
There are plans to tour the UK in 2008 under the Club Integral banner alongside several other groups.
Contact www.divineagency.org for bookings and further details.
KEVIN BLECHDOM - NEW ALBUM !!! OUT NOW !!!! OMG !!!
GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!! GENTLEMANIA!!
An acoustic album chock full of palpitating love songs.
Kevin Blechdom plays piano and sings.
Available NOW on Sonig and on iTunes.
www.itunes.com/kevinblechdom/gentlemania
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
If it's too far from your home, if you have better things to do, if you're scared to go out...discover
Jack Dupon's video almost live at a private concert...
Oppression
Si c'est trop loin de chez vous, si vous avez mieux a faire, si sortir vous fait peur... Découvrez la vidéo de Jack Dupon presque en live lors d'un concert privé filmé sur Clermont-1ère en octobre 2008...
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
........Notre nouveau clip, entièrement fait à la main... PIG MONSTER.
Déjanté, hors normes, expérimental, décalé, théâtral, déglingué.
........Our new music video, entirely handstitched .... PIG MONSTER.
Crazy, non-standard, out of norme, unusual, experimental, out of phase, theatrical, delirious.
Pig Monster
BONNE ANNÉE, GROSSES BISES et VIVE le ROCK...
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).
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
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
Club Integral @ Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston E8 - Friday 5th December Featuring music from Fukuoka's angriest Diva Atsuko Kamura and her band I Am A Kamura, plus special guests Strathbungo Schleppers (poet and raconteur Ivor Kallin and meta-guitarist John Bissett). Doors 8.30 to 12.00 Entry £5/£7
Atsuko Kamura's debut solo album is one of this year's most remarkable collection of songs... I Am A Kamura are all about live playing and uncanny vocal delicacy. Are we in a hotel bar in 1930s downtown Fukuoka, Kamura's hometown in Japan? Or are those harps and strings from Wong Kar-Wai's heady 2046-style fantasies? In fact Kamura's music could only have been made right now and in London, for all its Japanese lyrics and faux-oriental touches over Latin rhythms. Clive Bell - Wire magazine, November 2008
John Bisset is a quietly brilliant improvisational guitarist; Ivor Kallin is a bearded Scotsman. Bisset extemporises appropriate accompaniment on an acoustic guitar; Kallin intones apocalyptically sinister street names. Stewart Lee - the Times
