Rocket Probes – June 2019 playlist

The Utopia Strong – Brainsurgeons 3
(Killer 10min+ track by this new Rocket three-piece – the vinyl is a thing of beauty too!)

Papivore – Death and Sprong
(Agathe from KURO and Tom from Tomaga...really great new sounds on Hands in the Dark)
Papivore 

Errant Monks – The Táltos
(Sad to hear Errant Monks are no more, but at least they left us this...)
Errant Monks

Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra
(Unfolding, repetitive loveliness)
Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur

Attempted Moustache – You're The One
(Another Cherrystones endorsed banger!)
Attempted Moustache

Prairie WWWW – Pán
(Kosmiche grooved pop from Taiwan...'another' Heather from Black Impulse tip)
Prairie WWWW

White Manna – Ape on a Sunday
(Nice psyched out jams on Cardinal Fuzz)
White Manna

Cosmo Vitelli – Kuldip
(Cosmic groove)
Cosmo Vitelli

Stereolab – Jenny Ondioline Part 2 (Breakdown Mix)
(Great unreleased version on the recent reissue..thanks John Hirst)
Stereolab

Carter Tutti Void – t3.5
(Banger!)
Carter Tutti Void
https://youtu.be/5NW0v9rInjU

Einsturzende Neubauten – Armenia
(Looping noise)
Einsturzende Neubauten

Rien virgule – Des Punks sur nos Caillebotis
(Postpunk Can sounds from France)
Rien virgule

Hama – Houmeissa
(Great synth rave from Niger that Joe from Hey Colossus played during his 6 Music interview)
Hama

Gazelle Twin – Belly of the beast
(Repetitions...a modern Munic & Elsewhere)
Gazelle Twin

Frozen Sun – Electric Soul
(Fuzz rock)
Frozen Sun

Queens of the Stone Age – Born to Hula (Old Version)
(Nice groove out at the end)
Queens of the Stone Age

Pious Faults – Old Thread
(Thanks to Adam Reid for telling us about this Australian noise band)
Pious Faults

Listen to our updated monthly Rocket Probes playlist on Spotify:



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Bandcamp daily interviews Gnoomes for article on Russian Shoegaze

They say:

Gnoomes’ reputation has been rapidly growing thanks to 2017’s Tschak! and this year’s MU!, both powerful albums full of psych/electronic fusions. The band freely cite shoegaze as their initial inspiration, and early releases, like 2014’s It’s moonbow-time, boy, are awash in gently-lapping waves of guitar and distant, mournful vocals. “We were big fans of that particular genre for a long time, since we were kids,” says keyboardist Masha Piankova. “We weren’t able to go see bands play live, so we got all our info from the Internet. When we started as a new band, we called ourselves shoegaze—not even shoegaze: Stargaze!”

Read the rest here: Bandcamp Daily

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Gum Takes Tooth and Teeth of the Sea in Get Into This's 'Top 25 albums of the Year So Far'

Get Into This has published their list of 'Top 25 albums of the Year So Far' and we are proud to say we have the following two albums in the list:

Gum Takes Tooth – Arrow
Teeth of the Sea – Wraith

You can see what they say about both albums here: GIT

And both bands are playing a very special festival in Liverpool by the Get Into This team called 'Deeper Cuts' that takes place on 13 July also includes Housewives on the bill. Tickets can be bought from here: Deeper Cuts

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Teeth of the Sea's trip to the moon

Last night Teeth of the Sea played a two hour set soundtracking the documentary Apollo Moon Shot at the Science Museum and what an 'out of this world' experience it was!

Top  marks to the boys on taking such a gargantuan project and pulling off such a stellar performance. And congratulations to all involved at the Science Museum and the Smithsonian Channel for hosting such a special event!

Photo by Neil Thompson for the Smithsonian Channel 

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Gnoomes Tschak Remixed! cassette – small repress on sale now

Due to demand from fans we have done a short run of 25 of the long out of print Gnoomes cassette 'Tschak Remixed'.

The tape features remixes by Rocket bands:

Lay Llamas
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation
Julie's Haircut

Plus remixes by

Ulrich Schnauss
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete
Landing
Al Lover
Kalli Ma
Myka
Camedor

Buy the cassette here: Bandcamp

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Circuit Sweet say some words about The Utopia Strong

They say:

THE UTOPIA STRONG: A NEW SYNTH PROJECT OF STEVE DAVIS, KAVUS TORABI AND MICHAEL J. YORK SELF TITLED DEBUT OUT ON ROCKET RECORDINGS 13 SEPTEMBER

“The overall sound was pretty accidental” reckons Kavus Torabi. “I certainly didn’t expect the music to sound so ecstatic and positive, Without wanting to puncture the mystery, there really felt like an element of magic at play in making this album. For the most part it was incredibly effortless”

“The band evolved from having had so much fun together and also sharing similar musical tastes” continues Steve Davis, “Mike (York) was living in Glastonbury where Kavus and I DJ’d in 2017. We all hung out together during the festival and the Utopia Strong was born. The name came later and I suppose reflects the fact that – once we’d jammed together and listened back to the improvising – the music felt pretty euphoric and otherworldly. It was very psychedelic but also strangely wonky”

It was never any secret that Davis – even at the peak of his household name status in the 1980s – was as happy putting a needle on a vinyl record as anything else involving a cue. Renowned as an aficionado of soul, jazz-funk and progressive rock from the seventies onwards, he famously once single-handedly promoted three nights at the Bloomsbury Theatre for French esoteric leviathans Magma, so frustrated was he by their absence from British shores...

Read the rest here: Circuit Sweet

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Kultur Magazin give Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation's Sacred Dreams a 9.5/10 reveiw

They say:

We have the hypnotic psychedelica of Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, the deep electronic spaciness of Gramm and Ethik, some timeless house grooves from Francis Harris and the Toy Tonics crew, the Balearic swells of Ghost Vision, and lots more.

So, prepare yourself for a journey through time and space, and let us begin…
Sacred DreamsJosefin Öhrn + The Liberation’s third album Sacred Dreams is the sort of thing any good mother would warn you about; trippy, dangerous and addictively good. Out now on Rocket Recordings, the London-based band’s new LP is full of fuzzy riffs and acid-drenched rock jams. Feel The Sun opens the record with some squelchy synths, a driving groove and Josefin’s whispered lyrics to form a track which gets the adrenaline flowing from the off. After the heady electronica of Honey Slumber, I Can Feel It merges I Feel Love style synths, loose guitar licks and rising vocals on a song which is going to sound like explosions going off in the brain when heard live. From here, Desire is deep and sexy pop music with a gothic heart, Hey Little Boy sounds like The Velvet Underground at their most languid, Baby Come On shows how rock music doesn’t have to be intricate to excite, Caramel Head is gorgeously hazy, while the dirge-like groove of Let It Come is worth the price of admission alone. Recalling the psychedelic majesty of fellow Londoners Toy, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are a band tailor-made for these fucked-up times. 9.5/10.

Read the rest here: Kultur Magazin

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Bonnacons of Doom announce summer shows

Bonnacons of Doom are heading out and playing some shows this summer:

06 Jul / Bristol / Astral Festival
26 - 28 Jul / North Devon / Kozfest 
30 Aug / Manchester / Manchester Psych Festival
17 Sep / Huddersfield / The Parish
18 Sep / London / The Lexington
19 Sep / Brussels / Magasin 4
20 Sep / Berlin / Urban Spree

Keep your ears, eyes and heads peeled for some Bonnacons of Doom news soon!

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GNOD announce Reading show

GNOD are heading to Reading to play the great South Street – with local heroes Typical Hunks in support...see you there!!!

Tickets/info: South Street

GNOD's full list of shows, now reads:

06 July / UK / Bristol / Astral Festival
15 - 17 Aug / UK / Bristol / Arctangent Festival
07 Nov / UK / Reading / South St
08 Nov / FR / Paris / Le Petit Bain
09 Nov / BE / Brussels / Magasin 4

10 Nov / UK / London / Dingwalls

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Echoes and Dust reviews Gnoomes album MU!

They say:

Gnoomes’ previous release, Tschak! was one of my favourite albums of 2017, so for me (and I’m sure many others) this latest offering, Mu! comes highly anticipated. The thing about Gnoomes though is that, as a band, they’re a uniquely melon-twisting experience. They’re equally as psychedelic and narcotic as the rest of Rocket Recordings’ roster and yet, they sound like none of the other bands. Sure, very few of the label’s roster sound alike (usually, this is the result of side-projects) but, I find that I can at least categorize the large majority of the bands. Putting such a band into words is something that I find difficult and daunting but, a pleasure all the same.

I continue to love how simultaneously electronic and analogue everything sounds. Moreover, they continue to create beautifully segued together and seamless albums that flow as one cohesive whole. For me what stands out most as something that I like from this record is the guitar work. There are so many nice guitar parts and I really mean nice. There’s something really pleasant and euphoric about the music on this album and whilst the synths do a lot of the work, I love Gnoomes with guitars, it’s fucking sick...

Read the rest here: E&D

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The Utopia Strong to play Supernormal Festival

Happy to announce that The Utopia Strong are playing this years 'sold-out' Supernormal Festival – joining fellow Rocketeers DJINN as well as many other great artists. 

Loads of new bands have been announced check out the full list here: Supernormal Festival

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Lay Llamas to play Here I Stay Festival

Lay Llamas join Housewives and others at Here I Stay Festival in Sardinia on Friday 20 September.

Info and Tickets here: Here I Stay

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New Music Social say some words about Gnoomes

They say:

GNOOMES
Reminds us of:

My Bloody Valentine, Neu! The Chemical Brothers, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive, Roykssop, Faust, Death in Vegas, Boards of Canada, Sonic Youth, Loop

I’ve always been a fan of music that you can get lost in. One minute I’m focussing on a task with music on in the background, and the next that music has completely enveloped me, and I’m lost in some beautiful cacophony and completely detached from everything. Pure escapism in a hectic world. That moment comes very early for me in Gnoomes latest album ‘MU!’

The band come from Russia and are signed to the wonderful Rocket Recordings, home of Josefin Ohrn and the Liberation (who I’ll be writing about on this site soon) and other artists such as Teeth of the Sea, Lay Llamas, Goat and the Utopia Strong, the experimental minimalist collaboration between (Snooker) Steve Davis, Michael J York and Kavus Torabi.   

MU! was released last month. Opening track Utro heads straight into ‘Loveless’ My Bloody Valentine territory, which quickly grabs your attention before shifting into early Chemical Brothers  with Sword in the Stone and Irma. Next up is the brilliant Glasgow Coma State and Sine Waves are Good for your Health.  By this stage by the way, anyone or anything trying to get my attention is out of luck – I’m completely lost! The rest of the album is equally impressive, more epic noisiness follows on Ursa Major and Progulka, before the music really gets its chance to stretch its legs on How do you. The closer Feel Now brings you back into reality, probably a good thing, and it’s a noisy little beast...

Read the rest here: New Music Social

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2nd Poster for Apollo’s Moon Shot : Teeth Of The Sea Live Score

Here is the 2nd poster for the Teeth of Sea Show at the Science Museum IMAX on the 21 June.

Info: 

Smithsonian Channel And The Science Museum Present:

Apollo’s Moon Shot :
Teeth Of The Sea Live Score

21.06.19

Join the Science Museum for a unique preview of Smithsonian Channel's new series 'Apollo’s Moon Shot' with a live score from Teeth Of The Sea.

'Apollo’s Moon Shot' looks back on one of the most important leaps forward in human history, exploring the journey from America’s first manned orbit to the last man on the Moon. The six-part series premieres on 17 June on the recently launched Smithsonian Channel UK and airs weekly throughout June and July.

We will be screening an abridged feature-length cut of the documentary series, with a live score performed by London psychedelic rockers Teeth of the Sea and introduced by famed American aviator and NASA 'Mercury 13' astronaut trainee Mary Wallace 'Wally' Funk. 

Tickets: Science Museum 

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Poster for Apollo’s Moon Shot : Teeth Of The Sea Live Score

!!!COUNTDOWN BEGINS!!!

Here is the first poster for the Teeth of Sea Show at the Science Museum IMAX on the 21 June.

Tickets are going at a brisk pace so if you want to hear 2 hours of brand new Teeth of the Sea material soundtracking the Smithsonian Channel’s incredible documentary ‘Apollo’s Moon Shot’, all in the iconic surroundings of London’s Science Museum, then best get on it!

Info: 

Smithsonian Channel And The Science Museum Present: 

Apollo’s Moon Shot :
Teeth Of The Sea Live Score 

21.06.19 

Tickets: Science Museum 

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Talk Sport interviews Steve Davis about Utopia Strong

Talk Sport called up Steve Davis and discussed his new music project The Utopia Strong, the new band he is in with the great Micheal J York and Kavus Torabi.

Listen back here (about 30min in): Talk Sport

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Birthday Cake for Breakfast interviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

They say:

It’s apt that on their second album, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – the riff-hungry, ear-piercingly-loud Newcastle based doom outfit – recorded in the presence of actual pigs. Wild boar in fact, that – along with deer – surrounded the converted farmhouse in the Italian countryside where the band spent a week writing, recording and living in fear of being eaten alive by boars.

“Totally spooked Chris…” Chuckles Matt Baty, vocalist and synth player in the five-strong Pigs’, recounting the brush with death experienced by bassist John-Michael Hedley and drummer Chris Morley. “Chris was stood outside, smoking, and he comes charging through – I think he locked Johnny outside in panic. Ran in – ‘There’s a bear, there’s a bear outside!’ Johnny was banging on the door to try and get in…”

Baty tells me this with a laugh from the safety and comfort of the backstage area at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, many miles away from muddy fields and ‘bears’ on the loose. Whilst outside in the hallway Aussie artist Julia Jacklin peruses the fruit bowl and hip-hop royalty Chali 2na helps himself to a complimentary coffee, we’re sat inside a curtained off area as Baty tells me all about their Italian break putting together ‘King of Cowards’.


“…It’s quite cliché saying we went away, that’s where we wrote our album…” He says. “The Italy thing, we had a few dates get cancelled on a European tour, so we had like a four or five day gap. So it was either cancel the whole tour, which would’ve been a shame, or find something else to do. So that was our something else to do and it was really beneficial.”...

Read the rest here: Birthday Cake for Breakfast

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The Quietus Say some words about Teeth of the Sea's up-and-coming Science Museum show

They say:

Teeth Of The Sea To Perform Soundtrack 
The band will present a live soundtrack for an abridged cut of the upcoming documentary series Apollo's Moon Shot

The London Science Museum will preview Smithsonian Channel UK’s new six-part documentary series Apollo’s Moon Shot later this month, with the score set to be performed live by tQ favourites Teeth of the Sea.

The screening will be an abridged feature-length cut of the series and will be introduced by famed American aviator and NASA Mercury 13 astronaut trainee Mary Wallace ‘Wally’ Funk. The event is a part of the museum’s Summer of Space program, celebrating the history of human space exploration and looking into the future of space travel.


The series, premiering June 17, traces the journey of America’s first manned orbit to the last man on the moon. It will air weekly throughout June and July. The event featuring Teeth of the Sea will take place on June 21 at the museum’s IMAX Cinema.

See the rest here: The Quietus

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The Mirror say some words about The UtopIa Strong

They say:

Snooker ace Steve Davis gets Glastonbury spot and album release with The Utopia Strong

His DJ career has since gone from strength to strength and now the charts beckon with the release of his debut album in September

Steve Davis is releasing his first ever album after forming a new musical outfit, called The Utopia Strong. 

He swapped the snooker table for turntables… and Steve Davis is now hoping for a Big Break in the charts.

The legend is releasing his first album in September after forming musical outfit The Utopia Strong.

He has already secured a spot at Glastonbury in a few weeks and music website The Quietus has described first single Brainsurgeons 3 as a “storming debut”.

Not bad at the age of 61.


Davis, who started out as a DJ by fronting a weekly show on local radio in 1996, seven years after his sixth world snooker title, formed the group with Kavus Torabi and Coil’s Michael J York...

Read the rest here: The Mirror

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Russian site Straw makes Gnoomes' MU! their Best album of Spring

The say:

"In the third minute I had to make the music louder so that this immersive effect would eat me up" Best album of spring

May 31 English label Rocket Recordings published record of the Permian group Gnoomes . I already called it the main recording of the spring, which deserves a separate discussion. Getting started. For now, I’ve given two reviews from the Western press about this album, and later we will talk with the guys about music, colleagues, how to share the stage with Wooden Shjips and the Western scene in general, Perm and life.

How do you find out about everything, if you do not tell.

Listen to me.

Gnoomes is a Russian band that plays a rollicking and perky psychedelic rock, created for live performance. And their new album MU ! , by their own admission, his task is to recreate the atmosphere of their concerts. Congratulations, they did an excellent job.


The opening track Utro is riddled with amazing electronic textures, the sound of the instruments is literally glued together, as if Kevin Shields came into their studio and decided to play them on the guitar, and at the same time screwed a couple pedalek. It is, indeed, unexpected to hear a curtsey from Gnoomes toward the early plane of the landscape....

Read the review here: Straw

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The Quietus say some words about The Utopia Strong

They say:

DJ partners Kavus Torabi and Steve Davis, alongside Michael J. York of Coil, Teleplasmiste and Guapo, have teamed up under the band name The Utopia Strong.

Above, you can listen to their first single 'Brainsurgeons 3', which features on their self-titled debut album, set for release on September 13. The ten-minute ‘Brainsurgeons 3’ stands as a centrepiece for the album and has already been popular with audiences of Torabi and Davis’s DJ sets.

“Some nights the track got the most thumbs up of the set. We broke Shazam with it!” Davis said.

He also said that the name of the band came from the euphoria that came from collaborating with York and Torabi, a sentiment which Torabi echoed.


“The overall sound was pretty accidental,” he said. “I certainly didn't expect the music to sound so ecstatic and positive. Without wanting to puncture the mystery, there really felt like an element of magic at play in making this album.”...

Read the rest here: The Quietus

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Poster for Bonnacons of Doom's show at The Lexington with Cosmic Dead

Tickets are available here: Baba Yaga's Hut

Bonnacons full list of dates are:

06 Jul / Bristol / Astral Festival
26 - 28 Jul / North Devon / Kozfest 
30 Aug / Manchester Psych Festival / Manchester
17 Sep / Huddersfield / The Parish (w/ The Cosmic Dead)
18 Sep / London / The Lexington (w/ The Cosmic Dead)

19 Sep / Brussels / Magasin 4 (w/ The Cosmic Dead)

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PROG say some words about The Utopia Strong

They say:

Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi release first new music from Utopia Strong
Former World Snooker champion Steve Davis and Gong/Knifeworld's Kavus Torabi's new musical outfit, The Utopia Strong, have released the first new music. You can listen to the ten-minute long Brainsurgeons 3 in full below.

The pair, along with Coil/Guapo member Michael J. York, will release their self-titled debut album through Rocket recordings on September 13.

“The band evolved from having had so much fun together and also sharing similar musical tastes,” former Prog columnist Davis told us. “Mike was living in Glastonbury where Kavus and I DJ’d in 2017. We all hung out together during the festival and the Utopia Strong was born. The name came later and I suppose reflects the fact that - once we’d jammed together and listened back to the improvising - the music felt pretty euphoric and otherworldly. It was very psychedelic but also strangely wonky”...

Read the rest here: PROG

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Teeth of the Sea Perform 'Live' Score to Apollo's Moon Shot Film

 
Smithsonian Channel And The Science Museum Present:

Apollo’s Moon Shot :
Teeth Of The Sea Live Score

21.06.19

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Join the Science Museum for a unique preview of Smithsonian Channel's new series 'Apollo’s Moon Shot' with a live score from Teeth Of The Sea.

'Apollo’s Moon Shot' looks back on one of the most important leaps forward in human history, exploring the journey from America’s first manned orbit to the last man on the Moon. The six-part series premieres on 17 June on the recently launched Smithsonian Channel UK and airs weekly throughout June and July.

We will be screening an abridged feature-length cut of the documentary series, with a live score performed by London psychedelic rockers Teeth of the Sea and introduced by famed American aviator and NASA 'Mercury 13' astronaut trainee Mary Wallace 'Wally' Funk. 

Tickets: Science Museum

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Echoes & Dust Review Cardiff Psych & Noise Fest (Teeth of the Sea)

Echoes & Dust Review Teeth of the Sea at Cardiff Psych & Noise Fest,

They say:

'It would take a special band to follow them – thankfully Teeth of the Sea are just that. They started with ‘Gladiators Ready’. the most potent military-grade banger from their latest album Wraith, which felt like a statement of intent. A statement that read, “we will not be fucking about”. And fuck about they did not. For all their experimental, more avant-garde leanings, TotS excel in creating eminently danceable slabs of psych-rock tinged, trumpet-laden electronica tailor made for making a full room move – which I think it did. I may have been somewhere at the front, with my eyes closed, lost in glorious, pulsing noise.'

Read the full review: Echoes and Dust

Photo: William Vander Voort

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Introducing 'The Utopia Strong' Debut Album Featuring Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Michael York

We extremely delighted to introduce 'The Utopia Strong' featuring Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Michael York and their self titled debut that will be released on Rocket on 13 September.

Listen to first track to be revealed from the album, the absolute epic 'Brainsurgeons 3' track above.

The album is being released on LP/CD/DL. The first pressing of Utopia Strong's S/T album comes in a special holographic foiled sleeve and there are three different vinyl colours to choose from aswell as a CD version. The Rocket shop version which you can preorder now comes as a 'Two colour Black Hole' version and is ltd to 350 copies. Plus there is a ltd indie exclusive in 'Fireball Orange' and a second ltd version in 'Dark Matter Transparent Blue'.

Pre-order the your copies here:


Buy: Bandcamp
Stream: The Utopia Strong

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The Press Release Reads:

The overall sound was pretty accidental” reckons Kavus Torabi. “I certainly didn’t expect the music to sound so ecstatic and positive, Without wanting to puncture the mystery, there really felt like an element of magic at play in making this album. For the most part it was incredibly effortless”

“The band evolved from having had so much fun together and also sharing similar musical tastes” continues Steve Davis, “Mike (York) was living in Glastonbury where Kavus and I DJ’d in 2017. We all hung out together during the festival and the Utopia Strong was born. The name came later and I suppose reflects the fact that - once we’d jammed together and listened back to the improvising - the music felt pretty euphoric and otherworldly. It was very psychedelic but also strangely wonky”

It was never any secret that Davis - even at the peak of his household name status in the 1980s - was as happy putting a needle on a vinyl record as anything else involving a cue. Renowned as an aficionado of soul, jazz-funk and progressive rock from the seventies onwards, he famously once single-handedly promoted three nights at the Bloomsbury Theatre for French esoteric leviathans Magma, so frustrated was he by their absence from British shores.

Steve was first introduced to the modular synthesis world by Teeth Of The Sea’s Mike Bourne at a show the latter was playing with Hirvikolari at Cafe Oto in 2016. “Like many others before me, I was intrigued by the wires, knobs and blinking lights of the modular synth and it wasn’t that long after that I felt the need to get my own, even though I didn’t have a clue what I was letting myself in for! The instrument has the ability to create whatever your imagination can deal with”

What’s more - with his tastes having moved into the fringes of experimental electronica as his record collection expanded exponentially, his music obsession took on new bounds after his retirement in 2016, with his DJ partnership with Torabi (Gong/Cardiacs/Knifeworld/Guapo) taking him to festivals and clubs for many a head spinning rampage, in which the wide-eyed assembled would be as likely to hear Autechre as Black Sabbath.

All this aside, few would have expected the artist whose previous recorded output comprised one Top Ten hit in 1986 (The Matchroom Mob featuring Chas & Dave’s ‘Snooker Loopy’) would be a part of the aural epiphanies that are chronicled in The Utopia Strong’s debut album, The combined forces of Davis, Torabi and Michael J. York (Coil/Teleplasmiste/Guapo) have arrived at no less than a modular-driven kosmische colossus of transcendent power enough to drive all talk of green baize firmly into the blue yonder.

An extraordinary marriage between celestial radiance and hallucinatory repetition - in which Davis’ modular geometry and ambient structures weave with Torabi’s keen and skewed sense of melody and York’s various gifts for pipes, drones and fevered abstract - the result is a beguiling tapestry as likely to remind listeners of the countercultural benchmarks of Terry Riley, Cluster and Fripp/Eno as the later vortex-voyages of Emeralds and Seefeel.

Perhaps the centrepiece of the record is the ten-minute ‘Brainsurgeons 3’, in which techno-style exultance, hypnotic foward-motion and the perhaps unlikely but crucial arrival of York’s bagpipes collude to provide a truly formidable endorphin rush. “Kavus and I started programming an unmixed version of Brainsurgeons 3 into our DJ sets and the reaction was amazing!” concurs Steve. “Some nights the track got the most thumbs up of the set. We broke Shazam with it!”

“in twenty years of making records it’s certainly been the easiest and most enjoyable to make” reflects Kavus. “Now, this may have been partly due to us having no preconceptions or expectations but it wasn’t just that. There was absolutely no conflict, and we spent a lot of time together working on it - in my experience that’s a total fucking miracle”

“The personal journey I’ve been on since January 2nd 2018 with Kavus and Mike has been surreal” reflects Steve. “Probably more so than even the path that unfolded for me in snooker. That was pretty far out but this seems otherworldly! Maybe Glastonbury is a mystical place after all”

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The band are also playing some live dates in the coming months with more to be added:
30 Jun / Pilton / Glastonbury Festival (The Crows Nest)
02 Aug/ Oxfordshire / Supernormal Festival
24 Aug / Hastings / Blackmarket Bar
05 Sep / London / Oslo (supporting Teeth of the Sea)

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For more information contact: lauren@rarelyunable.com 

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See Gnoomes photo tour diary exclusively for The405

The405 asked Gnoomes to send them a selection of images from previous tours of UK/Europe and the band supplied a really great selection of good memories, see them here: The405

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Watch footage of GNOD playing live at Raw Power

Here's footage of GNOD's skullcrushing set from their headline show at this years Raw Power.

GNOD have some shows coming up, so do not miss the best live band in Britain right now:

06 July / UK / Bristol / Astral Festival
15 - 17 Aug / UK / Bristol / Arctangent Festival
08 Nov / FR / Paris / Le Petit Bain
09 Nov / BE / Brussels / Magasin 4
10 Nov / UK / London / Dingwalls

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Get into This reviews Gnoomes live in Liverpool

They say:

...Gnoomes. Yeah! They start off doing their best Good Cop, Bad Cop routine. It’s all quite measured and synthy at first. Quite subtle. Until the manic drums kick in and the guitar gets annoyed.

This will be some ride.

There’s so much reverb on the vocals and echo on the guitar that it’s difficult to tell which band member is making which noise. Not that it matters, because this is a glorious meld of noise and rhythm. They are equally happy playing 4-minute numbers from MU! as they are grinding out 10-minute behemoths from earlier albums.

Maybe the longer numbers are actually where the band shines most. These are the songs given room to breathe and grow. To develop into interesting spaces.

The Good Cop synths are getting angry now, as is pretty much everything else and Gnoomes hit their power boost button. GC leaves the room. And what we get is an ever increasing level of intensity that has this room not quite sure how to respond. It’s mesmerising. It’s special...

Read the full review here: Get into This

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Musos' Guide reviews Gnoomes live in London

They say:

...And then it was Gnoomes’ turn. They weren’t wearing denim jackets or hats and they looked dead serious; especially their newest member Masha (synths).

MU! is an adventurous yet spotless album, and they performed it beautifully. Their sound was intricate and deep, enough to make this man next to the stage shake and make praying motions (really intense and creepy).

One of the things that made their sound so detailed and diverse was the ridiculous amount of pedals lined up in front of the guitarist; rampant during songs like 'Ursa Major' and 'Utro', more melodic and Tame Impala-like for 'Glasgow Coma State' and very melancholic '90s sound for my favourites, 'Sword In The Stone' and 'How Do You'.

It was clear that the addition of a new member had made them much MUCH better, giving each of them the opportunity to develop and enhance their sound, and I bet the crowd could tell; it was a perfect gig. They don’t seem to have any more gigs planned in London for now, but do yourself a favour and go see them next time, and check their album out in the meantime!... 

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Mix it all up reviews Gnoomes live in Portsmouth

They say:

Russia’s Gnoomes headlined the night bringing their psych, kraut rock and self-coined stargaze to the worlds first and currently only crocodile church that is The House of Rapture. The band are close to finishing up their seven date UK tour in support of their latest album release ‘Mu!’ last week. I’d only come across Gnoomes for the first time following the release of their latest single ‘Glasgow Coma State‘ a month or so back but was impressed enough by the experimental side of their music that I knew they were a must to see live.

The lights were dimmed in an attempt to give the space an even more “church” style vibe and Gnoomes took to the stage for a set of experimental goodness. Their live performance was much less frantic but more intense than what I’d expected based upon listening to their music. Hypnotic and mesmerising would be the best way to describe Gnoomes absorbing, mostly fuzz-filled, even sometimes ambient cacophony of sounds and noise live. With expansive layers of cold-wave, psychedelic sounds amongst almost indecipherable vocals, the quartet manage to create something ethereal but also harsh in the best sense of the word. Gnoomes are a band that you’ve got to see live to appreciate their music fully....

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Lift Off!!

Next Week....Keep Your Eyes & Ears Peeled...
 
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Soundblab review Gnoomes MU!

Soundblab review Gnoomes MU!

They say:

Sitting here, listening to a few of my favourite artists of the last few years like Goat, Flowers Must Die, White Manna, Follakzoid, I realise that these bands, apart from the obvious broad church of psychedelia they inhabit, also have an experimental reach going well beyond the folk music of their respective countries. They make me think a lot about the music that laid the foundation for my own musical tastes. They strive to make their music multicultural rather than cultural. They pay no deference to musical fads. They revel in patchworking sounds into something new and vibrant, and even if the results are sometimes perplexing, they’re always fresh, always stimulating.

Gnoomes is another such band. ‘Utro’ is as strong an opener as I’ve heard in a while. A suffusion of fuzzed up guitar and unearthly synthesiser backfilled with monstrous bass and served up as rave music for psych fans. It’s as cool as it sounds. ‘Sword in the Stone’ is a motoric rocker which sounds like something that might have resulted should Alan Vega have written a song for Tears for Fears......

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