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The London Snorkelling Team
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Description: | CD in 7" style package on Brains and Hunch |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Indie Pop | |
| Label: | Brains and Hunch | |
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£12.29
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Brian on 02 September 2010.
Bloody hell, here's this week's dose of rampant fruit-cakism from today's most prominent mad-as-lorries award contenders. Setting out their stall somewhere between berserk cartoon jazz, funky 60s soundtracks, quirky easy listening & bloopy Ghost Box style hauntologicalisms - this is the kind of demented tinkering & fun experimentation Norman Records used to pride itself on stocking. I'm reminded of Terry Edwards in a couple of spots, but also this is the kind of music you'd expect to find on one of those old Vespertine comps. Think of Broadcast's really out-there exotica snippets too...and think of tap dancing! Consider the surprises you used to get from the most elaborately packaged & random record/CD you could lay your hands on any week & return to that way of thinking instead of just buying the latest hipster shit that every other fucker is buying. Get this CD, it is super-awesome fun and is really nicely put together!! Check their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thelondonsnorkellingteam for more curious ephemera....
The London Snorkelling Team play music they imagine may have been played in the 1950s, perhaps at a cocktail party for experimental scientists with a fascination for cartoons. The composition of the music involves the creation of an imaginary town in which this music plays an important part of local life. Ground breaking research by the band has resulted in a method of putting music, live, through a working time-machine, controlling the resulting sound via felt-tip pens and light.
The CD comes in a breathtaking package, supplied in a 7inch gatefold jacket housed in a PVC sleeve. In addtion to the audio recording you get an amazing pull out map of the fictional island upon which the album is based.
Chris Branch (farfisa organ, moog synthesiser)
Tom Haines (drums, percussion)
Ross Hughes (baby bass, clarinet, tenor sax, cavaquinho)
Pascal Wyse (trombone and voice)
Tom and Mark Perrett (live over head projector animation)
