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Thu 6th The Luminaire and Accidental Records presents SETSUBUN BEAN UNIT + Micachu + Montag
Doors 7.30 "The oddest pleasure you'll experience all year." [The Independent] "Oni-wa Soto! Fuku-wa Uchi! Goodbye Winter! Hallo Spring! Demons out! Happiness in!" Blow your mind, move your feet, with Setsubun Bean Unit space funk treatment! The UK's most intrepid trio explores Setsubun Carnival with Japanese guest musicians and dancers, direct from Tokyo, presenting a radical electronic reworking of traditional Japanese folk and contemporary rhythm, mixed with space funk, original compositions and live Japanese Bon Dance. "The sort of album that will keep revealing hidden treasures on every single subsequent listen." [Boomkat]
"This is unhinged, parallel-universe music, that could only have been made by musicians hell-bent on mischievously redefining exactly what jazz, Japanese folk, and leftfield pop are. I found myself coming back to it over and over again, and finding its daft, dreamy, and sometimes disturbing world more and more compelling with every listen. Each track has its own internal logic and contains enough ideas to sustain any lesser band for their whole career. Simultaneously demanding and undemanding; cerebral and disposable, it's fun and funky stuff." "Endlessly surprising and enjoyable.....perversely catchy." Independent on Sunday] Setsubun: traditional Japanese Spring Ceremony with demon-bashing bean-scattering. Join us as we banish the demons with heavy electronic funk. "Some of the most unclassifiable and exhilarating contemporary music you've ever heard." [FROOTS] Main support is Micachu, a 20 year old producer and short guitar song writer. She studies composition at the Guildhall College of Music in London . As well as writing more traditional pieces, she writes electronic pop songs, sometimes delivered acoustically. She works with a band of equally talented musicians - The Cluster - made up of Miss Bienek, Taza, Yvette, Baker Trouble, Mayhem, Kit Downes, Ghostpoet and Kwes. Having played at Sonar in Barcelona this year, she is working on a new mixtape and will soon start working on her new album with Matthew Herbert. Opening up is Montag, AKA Antoine Bédard, a solo French-Canadian musician based in Vancouver, Canada. On his forthcoming album, Going Places (Carpark Records), Montag embraces vivid, confident arrangements, exploding his previously minimalist sound into symphonies of incandescent electronic pop. Keeping his warm signature style of analog synths, layered vocals and detailed acoustic instrumentation, Montag charts new territory, sounding richer and brighter than ever. |
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