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Mécanosphère
Mécanosphère is a diasporic unit wich intricates hand made breaks with free sonic music blast and spoken-word sound poetry.
Transgenicly, musicaly and geographicaly, Mécanosphère transplants and recycles languages from odd hip-hop bass heavy dub to violent free-rock, noise-jazz, melting them into one retro futuristic sensibility.
Mécanosphère blurs the borders beetween formal genres & methods, though keeping in accordance to pratical laws of the nerve: bass, live looping dubbed over percussive instrument circuits, analog dirt, multiple drumsets and a frenzied constellation of jazzed down noises and words.
In its present incarnation, Mécanosphère is an extensive French-Portuguese-North American group with physical headquarters in Portugal and a double identity due to simultaneously belonging to a local scene (the use of portuguese language in most of its lyrics sets Mécanosphère naturaly in the sphere of portuguese musical culture and territory) and to a wider global noise/rock/experimental circuit, consequent of its diasporic essence.
A segment of the Euro-American Radon collective, Mécanosphère is not only a band, but also the collision point of the work and worlds of its members: solo projects or side bands, permanent collaborations and porosity beetween its individuals members and with other Radon artists. Just like Mécanosphère's sonic identity proceeds out of this porosity, these projects carry on, each one in their own way, the general Mécanosphère/Radon Ensemble specific sound and perspective on music and art.
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There’s no-one in pop quite like Kelli Ali. A straight-talking Brummie with exotic good looks, a rock chick who first found fame with a dance act (Sneaker Pimps) and a singer/songwriter who has recently recorded with both Bootsy Collins and Linkin Park. Ask Kelli about the time she spent working on her new album and she’ll mention sitting on a beach in Malaysia with an acoustic guitar, playing keyboards and computers in bedrooms in London and meeting psychic cats in California. It’s no wonder Kelli’s sound isn't easy to pin down. But then, that's just how she likes it.
Since leaving Sneaker Pimps in the late '90s, after a hit debut album, a clutch of classic singles and a successful tour of the States that found fans in the likes of Madonna, Kelli has launched a solo career that harks back to her rock roots - she grew up playing in guitar bands in Birmingham - but also boasts a growing interest in electronica. Two years ago, ‘Tigermouth’, her solo debut, recorded largely in L.A. with Marius De Vries and Rick Knowles, was the first step to finding her own sound. With her forthcoming follow-up, Kelli has come into her own with a batch of tracks that shimmer and swagger in equal measure. |
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