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.
Big Bad Love at 93 Feet East July 10th –THIS THURSDAY Doors: 7pm £6.50
This is our first 93 Feat East gig and we’re happy to be gracing this illustrious stage so look out for special door price offers a few days before the gig… Or you can buy in advance here: http://www. wegottickets. com/event/32336
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
Hi Simon, nice to meet you down on the river and I've enjoyed my visit to SuperstringsSpace, good stuff. Keep in touch, Onwards and Outwards Nick Stephens http://www. loosetorque. com
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
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...
With much LOVE ,a dream has come true...As promised Im letting those who may have asked know......Please let me announce to my friends that my solo effort " DreamSong " is now at CD baby and you can try out the entire work for free...I think you will enjoy it as it is a new and different pop rock concept album, Maybe the first of its kind done exclusively with guitar synths ...An eclectic soundtrack of those forgotten previous lives. Wishing you the best of music and creativity ! Love makes dreams come true.
Johnny B calling Simon King! Johnny B calling Simon King! There's some pictures of you playing with us on our page, to which I have provided a handy link below...
Legendary anarchic theatre company Forkbeard Fantasy, founded over thirty years ago, present their current production Invisible Bonfires at Toynbee Studios Commercial Street, E1 tonight. Plus a special bicycle-powered gig after the show featuring music from Same Actor, Mayming, I Am A Kamura, Boycott Coca Cola Experience, Kenny Process Team and Lotus Pedals. Invisible Bonfires is a storming satirical cabaret on the cl
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