Phil Lucking: trumpets
James Pagella: drums and percussion
Harry Sumnall: synths and percussion
Tom Sumnall: bass
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Sounds Like
Daunting but delightfully deranged
Losing Today Magazine
.. their free-flowing improvisations, tasty Krautrock grooves and jazz flourishes immediately paint a huge aural canvas with thick layers of colors borrowed from just about everyone from Coltrane and Sun Ra to The Soft Machine and Bablicon.
Foxydigitalis
Tis a groovy sound collage, mon!
Fake Jazz
Theremin battery, skippy keys, s-bending bass, drill pattern drums, siren organ in continuum, other pulses muscling in on the action, a diversion into free-funk with sci-fi white noise cutting across.
Vanity Project
Zukanican can safely be categorized as uncategorizeable
Splendid Magazine
..free jazz fragments flutter by like psychedelic moths attracted by the fire
Dream Magazine
...a wholly satisfying and genre-defying collection of music...in an exhilarating musical stew, full of goodness and incredibly tasty. Ptolemaic Terrascope
Zukanican are based in Liverpool, centred around a mysterious neo-classical worshipping building. All manner of strange activities take place there, but none so more strange as the sight of four musicians gathering together to incant in their native mother tongue of zukan.....
If you would like to book Zukanican to play, please don't be shy - drop us a line.
Zukanican release their music on their own label Medical Records, as well as other sympathetic arthouses, such as Pickled Egg Records.
Zuk Artwork by James Pagella
Zukanican live at Chinchillafest, Leeds May 2008 - Part 1
Zukanican live at Chinchillafest, Leeds May 2008 - Part 2
Hello dear Friends! There is quite a lot of news here at the Upitup HQ /// First : ) upitup is not dead! long live upitup! We are very proud to announce another fresh artist in the upitup roster! And obviously a new cracking release! "upfree28 - Tha Freewhelin Kubic Zirkonia" is the first album by Pariah Qarey, "sound lad" RAPresenting from the core of one of the freshest music scenes in Europe: Liverpool, Merseyside UK. Take it, download it, dump it on your ear killing portable device! ITS FREE!! upitup!!
Second ; ) Uperitive is BACK! As usual the best free buffet (including LASAGNAS™) and a selection of the freshest, and original acts in Liverpool!
-PLECTRUM (live): Solo set from Joe Mclaughlin (from KLING KLANG, and The international)
-sixAM (special Downtempo set!)
-dj Danylo
-Jacques Malchance liveset
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THIS FRIDAY! 25 SEPTEMBER come early for the LASAGNAS™ YES!
Turbinicarpus Records (Donetsk, Ukraine) proudly presents the double CD of experimental jazz performed by T.rans A.tlantic R.age.
T.rans A.tlantic R.age is an explosion of panic beyond control, unorthodox experiments in all the genres to breakthrough beyond style borders, an independent musician from US who now turned to jazz.
Cheers for the add. Like your work. Saw you with Damo at the Citadel, cool. Say hello to Budgie if you are still in touch with him (the 2nd drummer you had at the gig) Best Wishes
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