rumour cubes

Taken from our upcoming album, Appearances of Collections, which will be released on 18th August. Get a free download of the album if you buy tickets for ArcTanGent using this link: tiny.cc/rumourcubes-ATG

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Irrealis Life (Kabanjak Remix)

Rumour Cubes - The Gove Curve

From the album  'The Narrow State'.

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The Gove Curve

Poem written by Steve Willey; words below. 

Mile End Road
23 June 2011

Tried, 

Tried, and if you were truly recipient I would silence my surprise at 

your arithmetic, for I have tried to imagine what and where your 

numbers actually turn: perhaps the twist in green weeded tiles – 

seedlings, grouting, black lines – no grandness, only disuse. Three 

iron cisterns watch, and above the ferrous corner, the aquifers, lie 

under a high jarred skyline, and there all about you the

bricks your labour knuckles. Here, the meters of water ghost 

above three childish brunette heads, to fill up mouths: there, there is 

no plain disuse. Tried, a sun-silhouetted bird is the boy’s arms 

spread, in disease condemned to rest itself in the furred lamb's 

tongue. Occupied in weaver’s field for an afternoon with her, and here 

I hold your awkward abstract form, and from this distance it looks 

‘about’, twenty-five meters, and the solar flare is probable, and you 

are reduced to numbers, and I am reduced to this – pool of glee. It 

happened. You are right to ignore me. I happened, to see the plastic 

cup crease, your commitment, to feeding us, with hot coffee, and that 

memory might as well have been love, and if it isn't, I tried to make
 
it so, and write and write, to pretend, there is no choice.

S.W.

Letters To Palestine

In Episode 1 of Still, I Write Karis and Safaa catch up with Iman Qureshi about her 2018 Papatango Award-winning play, The Funeral Director. 

They talk diversity schemes, the burden of representation, hijabs in theatre, how to deal with critics and Sir Peter Hall's son.

Episode 1

We'll be releasing our new album before the end of the year! To celebrate, we're offering this fantastic Triptych remix for free download - hope you enjoy it! 

Rumour Cubes - Triptych (in violet mix)

Appearances of Collections is out now!
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“Rumour Cubes’ sound is a luminous re-imagining of very many constituent parts” (Louder than War). The London-based six-piece are a gathering swell of strings, electronics and layers of guitars, underpinned by a bass-infused rhythm. Formed in 2009, the band have since cut their own path, crafting music that is by turns melodic and abstract, raucous and reflective, joyful and melancholy.

The band’s two albums Appearances of Collections (2014) and The Narrow State (2012) draw on a wide range of instrumentation, influences and ideas, both packed with Rumour Cubes’ signature changes in pace, texture and form. Appearances of Collections has been described as “a far-reaching and fearless work, a dizzying instrumental adventure” (The Skinny), “music overflowing with a delicate, but nonetheless significant, passion” (Drowned in Sound) and “a labyrinth of vivacity, an album of beauty and transcendence that is meticulously crafted but holds no sense of rigidity, leaving plenty of room for wonder.” (Echoes and Dust).

Rumour Cubes’ performances are underpinned by their love of new technology. The band's live shows often feature mi.mu gloves (guitarist Adam Stark is part of the development team), which allow the wearer to manipulate sound using hand gestures, alongside a host of other technological elements, including joysticks, samplers, synths and a huge array of effects pedals, many of which are custom-built. Adam has also written custom software to synchronise videos to the band’s live performances, turning their shows into a multimedia experience.

Since their inception, the band have collaborated with poets, film-makers and a wide spectrum of other musicians. Collaborations with poet Steve Willey can be found on debut album track The Gove Curve and the 1871 / Letters To Palestine release; and Appearances of Collections includes contributions from 10 guest musicians. In 2013 Rumour Cubes played at Glastonbury, Village Green and Truck festivals alongside Sam Duckworth (Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly). The set at Glastonbury was Sunday's headline act on the Leftfield Stage, and was a live mixtape with artists including Billy Bragg, Kate Nash, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Jehst, Riz MC and Grace Petrie.

Rumour Cubes are Joe Bartlett (bass), Jay Malhotra (guitar), Hannah Morgan (violin), Terry Murphy (viola), Omar Rahwangi (drums) and Adam Stark (guitar, electronics).

The Gove Curve

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