Here is a great recording on Anthroprophh playing the track Precession live in their studio as they were practicing for a show in Manchester.
The live incarnation of Anthroprophh is Paul Allen (from The Heads) backed up with Gareth and Jess from The Big Naturals.
Anthroprophh want to play your town...so if you are a promoter based in UK or Europe or you know someone who may be interested in booking the band, please let us know.
We saw the band play a couple of weeks ago and they are on fire at the moment, with lots of great new material.
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Gnod have been confirmed for a a special residency at Islington Mill in Salford
This is what is said about it on the Mill's site:
GNOD – Got No Obvious Destination Residency
For our very first music residency we have invited Gnod to take over the club space every Sunday - Wednesday from 1st July until 17th July. A music collective based at the Mill since 2006, they have stayed true to their vision of creating something from nothing, playing shows around the loose idea of believing in the power of people coming together to create a picture of the truth. Having toured extensively throughout UK & Europe the band have over 20 releases, their own tape label Tesla Tapes and are the heads behind the total art work, Gesamtkunstwerk (see July 5th).
This residency consists of members of the extended Gnetwerk of friends, coming to the Mill to stay, work, find like-minded people as well as creating artwork and performance along the way.
From the 1st to the 9th Gnod bring Ken Wiatrek to the Mill, a Hamburg based artist and musician they’ve been in regular conversation with since meeting at Kutna Hora Festival, Czech Republic in 2010. Ken is “interested in creating a better world. Be that through education or culture” Having helped out Gnod they will be returning the favour whilst he creates new work at the Mill.
The 8th & 9th see an exhibition of photographic landscapes by Sanna Charles, sound installations by Mark Wagner and live performance from S&M and “Finnish Doomers” Horse Latitudes celebrate the launch of a volume of work from the artists performing and exhibiting. Expect industrial yet pagan overtones.
On the 12th, Gnod are hosting a supper club with Jentle Ben and Olmos, come see her perform and taste how the gnetwork eat. Then on Sunday 14th Gnod host an open session where you can come and see them rehearsing before their London shows.
Monday 15th sees the band combine with sound artist Callum Higgins (Baptists & Bootleggers/Yes Blythe) building on the work he presented during the Working Title residency and Development 3 show earlier this year. Higgins will transform the club space into a fully immersive, light reactive environment, the very presence and behaviour of the audience in the room will manipulate and shape the unique experience they have.
Finally on Tuesday 16th Gnod perform for Boiler Room at the bequest of The Wire magazine alongside the brilliant Kogumaza. In true 21st century style the event will be streamed live to the clubspace at Islington Mill and will include support from Yes Blythe and more TBC.
Tickets and information on the residency can be found here: Islington Mill
For up-to-date information from Gnod, visit: ingnodwetrust
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"Get 'em while their hot"
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FACT Magazine have published a feature an interview with Goat after their successful show at Primavera Sound:
“IMAGINE BEING PUT INSIDE A BIG DRUM WITH YOUR FAMILY AND THEN SENT OUT FOR A RIDE IN SPACE”: FREAKING OUT WITH MASKED MYSTICS GOAT
As Blur’s ‘Girls & Boys’ sparks the first visible signs of excitement at Barcelona’s Primavera festival, whose concrete expanse feels not dissimilar to a chilly Clapham car park, it’s hard to peel away to see the experimental Swedish tribal-funk act starting on an adjacent stage.
Goat are already in full swing. Two female singers draped in colourful outfits – part Islamic head-dress, part Voodoo gown – are flying around the stage to Afrobeat drums and wailing psychedelic guitar riffs that don’t scrimp on the wah-wah. The two return from their running dances to chant and cackle down their microphones. “People get rea-dy! Under the rain-bow!” they sing in unison, “People keep danc-ing! Into the ear-ly dawn!” A masked band member launches into an unashamedly-long keyboard solo with all the richness and imperfections of some jam off a 1970s Ethiopiques record. Goat, it seems, are much more fun than 20-year-old Britpop.
The masked band hail from Korpilombolo, a sleepy village in Sweden’s sparsely-populated northern wilderness located between Lapland and the Baltic Sea. According to Goat, or more accurately their press release, Voodoo arrived to Korpilombolo centuries ago via a travelling witch doctor and her followers, who were searching for the village by means of a cipher hidden within some ancient scripture. Their customs and music took hold and remained undisturbed for centuries, before crusaders came and vanquished them. The Voodoo curse still hangs over the town and is now channelled through Goat’s music…"
Read the rest of the piece here: FACT Magazine
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pro 3voor12 has put up the audio stream of Goat's amazing set at this years Roadburn Festival...
Enjoy!!
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We are VERY excited to announce that Goat will be playing the Loop curated 'ATP – End of an Era' at Camber Sands on November 29th to December 1st.
The band fly over to join an amazing line up that includes:
Loop
Thought Forms
Comets on Fire
Pop Group
Hookworms
Ty Segal
Follakzoid
Fennesz
Kandodo
23 Skidoo
OM
and many more still to be announced!!
The event is going to be the LAST EVER ATP, and we at Rocket are proud to have one of our bands play as we have been punters at the festival for many years....so lets make it go out with a BANG!!
For more information and tickets , go here: ATP
Photos by Matt Schiels
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The Quietus reviewer for Primavera had some nice things to say about Goat's set:
"...While it's infuriating that Swans and Goat clash, I venture to see the Swedes, having seen Gira and co. four times in the last eight months. It being the ATP stage, trickles of Blur float over from the main stage at times. But by the time Goat plunge back into their Stooges meets Funkadelic whirlwind, Blur are rendered a long forgotten memory and blasted back to the 90s by a sonic fury that simultaneously pre and post dates them. The masked group tear through World Music with sizzling gusto and grace, with a performance that exudes so much unrelenting and groove-ridden vigour that the audience descend into flailing madness. It's anvil-heavy in its tone and execution, the guitars and bass scream mercilessly, but the hand drum that a gimp-masked man sits and plays at the front adds a percussive ferocity that makes this 2am party performance a gripping triumph..."
Read the full review of the festival here: The Quietus
(photo by Gaelle Beri - www.gaelleberi.com )
"If you’re unfamiliar so far with the Swedish musical phenomenon known simply as Goat, then I really do hope that life under that giant rock isn’t stinking too much of your stale weed and dusty old albums. Smashing into our global weird-beard consciousness in 2012 with the stunning and surprise-laden ‘World Music’, Goat returned every single listener to a world of ‘70s US cop dramas, voodoo-enchanted campfire dances and tribal, yet cheerfully Amazonian rhythms.
‘World Music’ crept up on most like a fox in a balaclava, but yet it’s reach was so very vast; being covered and appraised by everyone from The Sleeping Shaman to The Guardian is no mean feat for such unprecedented sounds so mysteriously forged in Korpolombolo, Sweden. The astounding thing about ‘World Music’ was that it didn’t fit into any cleanly-defined bucket – you could utter ‘retro rock’, ‘jazz’, ‘soul’, ‘funk’, afro-beat’ or ‘reggae’ amidst it’s fornicating glamour and you would neither be quite correct nor entirely wrong in your chosen description. In many ways, it was their overtly catchy weirdness that saw them embraced most warmly by the stoner-rock and doom communities, hungry for something lively and fun to soothe their blackened souls. Appearances at the likes of Supersonic and Roadburn festivals ensued and the hype around this most bizarre and obscure three-piece grew like vines on a summer’s day...."
Read the rest of the review here: The Sleeping Shamen
Ahead of the BBC's coverage of Glastonbury festival, the broadcaster have said a few words about Goat and their up-and-coming performance:
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THE HILLS ARE ALIVE
Goat became one of the most talked about bands in 2012 due to the success of their extraordinary debut album World Music, described as one of the year’s best albums by BBC Music.
The band hail from the historical, but little known about Northern Swedish village of Korpolombolo and create a sound which fuses infectious tribal grooves, fuzz and dual vocals.
Live shows by the band are rare but they will be making a few European festival appearances this year at Primavera, Roskilde, Way Out West and two sets at Glastonbury in what could be the perfect spiritual location for their tribal-psych sounds.
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Hopefully the BBC will see fit to broadcast some of Goat's show or invite them along to perform a song especially for you in their back stage area? What you think? if you like this idea, then contact the BBC demanding they make it happen!!
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Visit BBC's Glastonbury page here: BBC
Photo courtesy of the great PSquared Photography
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