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"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..."
– Kenny Anyway, Don’t Panic

"...a dizzying, many-limbed whirlwind of space-funk, soul, prog, jazz and titanic doom."
– Emily Mackay, NME

"...a mind-blowing energetic mix of math-rock, prog, funk, disco, and psychedelia [with] some hints of jazz and metal.”
– Laura Lotti, The 405

"Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?"
– headline from The Quietus

There are solo performers, duos, and bands, and then there are concepts, bigger than and beyond any particular singer, central instrumentalist, style, or ego. Chrome Hoof is one such concept, an evolving organism whose singular approach spans progressive rock, electronic dance music (especially electro), metal, funk, classical music, and more. Like Sun Ra, Magma, Trans-Global Underground, Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, and Afro-Celt Sound System, Chrome Hoof is an ever-developing affair, unpredictable yet with a drive and focus that makes their music (like the aforementioned icons) truly memorable. Moreover, Chrome Hoof serve up their sonic gumbo with a truly theatrical flair evoking the spectacles of Devo, Gong, Parliament/Funkadelic, Hawkwind, and Sun Ra, transporting their audiences on a Trip Into the Beyond. The result is a one-of-a-kind, hugely entertaining, nitro-pop, electro-metal, synth-pop, sci-fi, space-disco, psyche-Dalek spectacle!

Founded in 2000 by Leo & Milo Smee, current members include Leo Smee (the long-serving bassist of Britain's doom-metal heroes Cathedral), bass, guitar, and synthesizers; Alex Thomas (Squarepusher, Air, John Cale, Asia, Bolt Thrower), drums; Emmett Elvin (Guapo), keyboards; James Sedwards (Guapo, Nought), guitar; Andrew Gustard, guitar; Chloe Herington (Knifeworld), bassoon and saxophone; Sarah Anderson, violin & viola; Chan Brown, vocals, and Emma Sullivan, Vocoder, trumpet, vocals, and percussion.

Chrome Black Gold, their 3rd full length album, finds the group calling upon some of the UK's most prolific musicians for this latest slab of music! Guests include the fabulous vocalist Shingai Shoniwa (Noisettes) and Jeff Walker (Carcass). The Hoof spring into action like the finely honed pan-galactic touring machine they have become, their spectacular and unique shows now the stuff of legend Across the Multiverse.

Having spread its feverish, exultant gospel across Europe, headlining a multitude of festivals, and with this powerful, new album backing them up, their hugely engaging and fun prog-psych-house amalgam is primed to dizzy and delight ever newer, ever larger audiences!

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Chrome Hoof (ft. Shingai Shoniwa), "When The Lightning Strikes" from 'CHROME BLACK GOLD' (Cuneiform)

A Tale of Two Journeys (Mixtape)
Released: 14 February 2011

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11. Enter

Anteros era il fratello di Eros, i due erano inseparabili; una storia che un giorno Afrodite si lamentò con la Dea Temi del fatto che il piccolo Eros non crescesse, così la saggia Temi le rispose che Eros non sarebbe mai cresciuto finché non avesse avuto l'amore di un fratello. Afrodite si unì ad Ares e generò Anteros e da quel momento i due fratelli crebbero insieme, ma ogni qualvolta Anteros si allontanava da Eros, quest'ultimo ritornava bambino. L'amore (Eros) per crescere ha bisogno di essere corrisposto (Anteros).

Anteros per Orchestra d'archi

Promo outpost of the upcoming album "Between Myth and Absence". Lorenzo Monni, 2011 - 2014.

Crew during the recording sessions:
Alessandro Grasso: Bass guitar, Mastering Engineer.
Paolo Gravante: Drums.
Luca Visentin: Recording and Mixing Engineer.
Lorenzo Monni: Production, Guitars and guitar effects, Voices.
Davide Doretto: Recording and Mixing Engineer.
Francesco Tedeschi: Mascot, Graphic Consulting. 

These digital files are considered as an issue of the album. All rights reserved, copyright of Lorenzo Monni, 2014.

11. Sharathon

04 Denti

Live mix recorded at the Roundhouse, University Of New South Wales, Sydney 04.03.12.

Blog post covering what was an eventful tour of Australia & New Zealand, and its wider context, now online – ‘Slowing Down Time’: http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/2012/03/slowing-down-time/

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ROUNDHOUSE SYDNEY 04.03.12 (greg wilson live mix)

Pixel, the powerhouse indie-jazz ensemble from Norway, makes an indelible first impression with Reminder, an audaciously creative debut album on Cuneiform. Led by the remarkable bassist/vocalist Ellen Andrea Wang, the protean quartet is the most alluring band yet to explode out of Norway’s burgeoning improvised music scene. Combining indie rock energy with the improvisational flexibility of a post-bop combo, Pixel breaks down familiar musical elements and recombines them in a succession of startlingly original soundscapes. Earthy and ethereal, wistful and aggressive, sensuous and pummeling, the band refuses to settle into one mood or sonic space for long.

With saxophonist Harald Lassen, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy, and drummer Jon Audun Baar, Pixel features the same piano-less instrumentation as the epochal jazz quartets led by Gerry Mulligan and Ornette Coleman. Like their jazz antecedents, the band takes full advantage of the harmonic freedom afforded by the lack of a chordal instrument, but Pixel is more interested in painting dramatic, emotionally charged scenes than in setting up extended solos. With sharply etched compositions, Pixel has attained preternatural cohesion after two years together, moving seamlessly from composed passages to group improvisation marked by conversational interplay. A radical democracy, no one instrument stays in the foreground for long.

All four Pixels are ubiquitous on the fiercely creative Scandinavian jazz scene, which has embraced the quartet as an exemplar of Norway’s populist cutting edge. Slated for a series of major festivals and showcases across the region and the UK in conjunction with the release of Reminder, Pixel is poised to take the jazz world by storm.

Wang hails from a musical family. She spent years studying violin and piano before she picked up the double bass at the age of 17 and quickly made it her own. A graduate of Oslo’s Norwegian Academy of Music, she gained widespread attention in Norway with the release of 2010’s Norwegian Song 3, when she was pegged as a rising bass star who held her own in the company of established masters like pianist Dag Arnesen, drummer Pål Thowsen and trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg.

When she’s not working with Pixel, Wang can be heard accompanying pop singer Thea Hjelmeland or anchoring the progressive rock bands Synkoke and White Willow. She’s already contributed to nearly a dozen albums with various artists. Last year, she earned several coveted awards, including the prestigious Jazztalent Dølajaz.

Before he took up the saxophone at 13, Lassen studied the piano and sang gospel in his church. A respected bandleader in his own right since 2008, he’s collaborated with heavyweights like Andrew D’Angelo and Ralph Alessi. But Lassen has recently cemented his status as an essential new voice through his work with his band Play Tell, which features internationally renowned bassist Mats Eilertsen and legendary drummer Jon Christensen, who powered Keith Jarrett’s great 1970s European quartet.

A conservatory-trained musician, Vemøy graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2011. One of the most expressive trumpeters on the scene, he’s been sought out by a wide array of acts, including singer/songwriter Kristin Minde, prog rock band Blokk 5, the Balkan brass-inflected The Captain and Me, and the pop/rock band Lama, created by former Jaga Jazzist keyboardist Nils Martin Larsen.

Like Vemøy, Baar is a conservatory-trained musician who studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers like Jon Christensen and Rune Martinsen. A prolific sideman, he’s performed at major festivals with numerous bands and artists over the past four years. Outside of Pixel, Baar has been most visible in an acclaimed trio with the well-traveled guitar master Jon Eberson, a pillar of the Scandinavian jazz scene since the early 1970s.

Far more than the sum of its parts, Pixel allows each of these gifted musicians to fully explore their vivid individual voices by interacting as equals with formidable interlocutors. With any luck, Reminder is just the first dispatch from a band that seems destined and ready for greatness.

Pixel, "Call Me" from 'Reminder' (Cuneiform Records)

Taken from 'Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)' (MFM053)
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Heisei No Oto - Japanese Left-field Pop From The CD Age (1989-1996)

D3. Dido (Shizuru Ohtaka & Michiaki Kato) - Mermaid (5:09)

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11. Sharathon

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