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.
Club Integral @ Whitechapel Gallery, 18th December 2009.
Featuring music from Lotus Pedals, Nobodies, MayMing, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience and Jack Shirt. + DJ Chris Cornetto and projections from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema
Lotus Pedals: - "Gorgeous live music from the supremely strange Lotus Pedals, who remained on stage throughout the show...shambolic, bold and beautiful...offers truly unique rewards." Beccy Smith - British Theatre Guide.
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
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