Talibam!, Tigers!, Chops 14 november - @ brudenell social club, 4 quid
TALIBAM! is Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea from New York, workhorses totalling 6 different albums released this year (Azul Discografica, Pendu Sound Recordings, Blackest Rainbow, Gaffer Records, MT5 TAPES!, No=Fi Recordings, as well as previous stuff on Kitty Play and Ecstatic Peace)! Sheer exuberance and pure adrenalin pushing the musicians and the music up to and over the edge. The energy levels spill out in all directions, from demented free noise polka to post-Prog funk chorale. Ornette Coleman playing on Soft Machine’s Fourth in hell…. unabashad fuckeduppedness, Talibam! is audio terrorism at its most playful. Matt Mottel has been dropping electric mind bombs with his synthesizer in New York clubs for several years, involved with the likes of Awesome Color, Deerhunter, Akron/Family, Kenny Wollesen, Chris Corsano, Ras Moshe, Cooper-Moore, Sean Meehan, and his new band Shadow Maps. Kevin Shea’s drumming and stage gymnastics have been gazed at with wide wonder through his membership in bands like Storm & Stress (Touch & Go), Coptic Light (No Quarter), People (I and Ear), Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12), Sexy Thoughts (rcarchives.com), Mostly Other People Do The Killing (Hot Cup), etc. www.trashfactory.net/talibam - www.myspace.com/talibam
TIGERS! - Bunch o wackos. Sweet tush. All park and no bush. No wave theatrics. Members of Cowtown, Cissy, Chinchilla, etc. tigers.chinchillaweb.co.uk - www.myspace.com/tigers3000
CHOPS - featuring members of Quack Quack and Chinchilla, joyously entering their 11 month anniversary of euphoric knee ups, chin ups, push ups, pin ups, cock ups, and UPS express delivery. Shifted and twisted synth and sax, big beat drums, phat bass, calypso lounge jazz, psychedelic sometimes wonk pop and sometimes not. On Upset The Rhythm records; home to Numbers, No Age, Barr, etc.
