Phil Lucking: trumpets
James Pagella: drums and percussion
Harry Sumnall: synths and percussion
Tom Sumnall: bass
Influences
new album coming soon...
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.
Following Sun Ra's death, the group has performed under the direction of alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, who celebrated his 80th birthday on stage during Arkestra performances at the Vox Populi gallery in Philadelphia and the Vision Festival in New York City. In the summer of 2004 the Arkestra became the first American jazz band to perform in Tuva, playing five sets at the Ustuu-Huree Festival.
We welcome the Arkestra back to Manchester for the first time since 1991. We are honoured to host what is, to us and many of you, we're sure, one of the most exciting shows to hit town in recent memory.
As a friend of Killaflaw we'd like to give you the opportunity of purchasing our uniquely numbered, limited edition CD single 'Revolution' which also includes the much loved 'Holy Fuck' on the B side.
There are only 1000 copies in existence and further copies will be sold without these unique numbers, so here is your chance to own a piece of music history from the LIPA award winning band dubbed by Eddy dance/rock guru Temple-Morris "the missing link between Soundgarden and The Prodigy"
The record is of course also available to buy as MP3 download.
Saturday 20th September 3pm - 2am Taylor John's House ~ Canal Basin Coventry ~ CV1 4LY
£9 DAY ticket into ALL VENUES for ALL WEEKEND or £7 limited door ticket for Sonic Boom!
ANDY VOTEL is worldwide known electronic musician, producer and co-founder of Twisted Nerve Records and 'B Music'. Residing in Manchester this extraordinary musically minded man has been at the forefront of the DJ remix scene with releases since 1996. As part of his summer and autumn festival tour 2008, ATAM welcomes Votel to Coventry as he performs a DJ set dedicated to our own electronic legend Delia Derbyshire, composed especially for A Thing About Machines.
"Buys old records - makes new records. Teacher - triple label boss - graphic designer - acid-volk collector - microphone tormenter - bad-ass foreign psych DJ - snappy dresser." (Fat City Records)
"Everyone's favourite crown prince of psychedelic excess" (Boomkat)
This is going to be amazing! 2 days of fantastic music on a beautiful site in the Lake District overlooking the southern shores of Lake Windermere, with a selection of excellent bands as chosen by us & the lovely people at Fell Foot Wood.
Passes for music and camping are a bargain at £16/person for the weekend or £9/day (vehicles are £2 per extra per night). Bookings with card payment must be made in advance by calling Barry at Fell Foot Wood on 015395 31014. There are only 170 spaces, so book early!
Thank you so much for your friendship and support!!
Hey we are The Dirty Hearts. We have a new record called "Pigs," and a music video, "Record Store," that you will enjoy. Take a listen and let us know what you think!
hey zuks, we are waiting for the new album. when will you come to Italy to eat gorgonzola and drink italian gorgobeer? listen to our beautiful tracks named "tracks"
Ex-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 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
None Jazz (2003) Medical Records CD-R album
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