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HMRLP 015LP
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Hive Mind Records announce a new album from King Champion Sounds, the shifting Holland based collective centered around Ajay Saggar and Oli Heffernan (University Challenged), GW Sok (The Ex), Mees Siderius, Holly Habstritt Gaal & Elsa van der Linden. On Between Two Worlds, the band bring the same insatiable appetite for experimentation and exploration that made their previous four albums so special. This is music as an open conversation. An opportunity to exchange ideas. To be open-minded. To push boundaries and explore new worlds. Whereas elements of krautrock, electronica, free jazz and dub have always been part of the KCS armory, they have never stuck to a formula in the music making process, occupying instead the open space that lies between musical worlds. The core members have brought their different experiences into this rich new album that draws influence and inspiration from a dizzying range of sources -- from ambient guitar experiments, noisy avant-rock workouts, spidery gothic pop, otherworldly folk inflections -- and pulls them all together into a unique and coherent whole. Guest appearances on the album come from Gerry Love (formerly of Teenage Fanclub) adding beautiful vocals and instrumentation to "I'm In Between Two Worlds", Mia Doi Todd bringing her incredible voice to "Easby Abbey Remembered", Sally Timms of The Mekons takes lead vocals on "Thou Hurricane" with Jon Langford (The Mekons) and Janet Beveridge Bean (Eleventh Dream Day) on backing vocals. Finally, the Glasgow poet Marieke McKenna brings words from her diary to "Seasick" on which she recalls a surreal escape to a millionaire's yacht and the stark contrast it provided to the "real" world outside. Hive Mind Records help bring this urgent, transcendent and wonderfully varied music out into the world. Gatefold package.
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LOUD 002LP
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"What if Can played Ghanaian highlife? What if Ennio Morricone had scored Spaghetti Westerns in a Moroccan souk? What if The Fall had garnished their rockabilly grooves with swing-era horns? King Champion Sounds recombine canonical influences in new contexts." --Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times, December 2013; King Champion Sounds deliver a blistering 10" album combining hypnotic Krautedelic/dub/minimalist electronica tunes with a sugarshit-sharp wordsmith in his element. G.W.Sok (former lyricist/singer for The Ex) has never been in better form. The band, led by Ajay Saggar, closes ranks hard to deliver the tightest and most exciting palette of music you will hear all year. This is a strictly-limited 10" slab of vinyl which includes a free CD inside with TWO extra bonus tracks. Don't miss out!!! King Champion Sounds combine the grit and grind of the best of post-rock underground with the swinging horns of Africa in an astonishing whole. 500 copies only for the world. . Great packaging with CD and vinyl combined.
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