KINNIE THE EXPLORER

Kinnie the Explorer return to Cafe Oto fresh from performing at Montpellier's “2+2=5, l'Incroyable Festival” and recording an album with Bob Drake (Hail, Thinking Plague, Ice Cube, Jason Kahn, etc) in the Pyrenees. The post-rock group from Dorset supported Noah and the Whale at the Bournemouth O2 in their first month of activity, made their London debut this year at Richard Strange's legendary Cabaret Futura, and their joint release on the terminally hip Art Is Hard Records (a compilation audio t-shirt) sold out in days. Ed Baxter in the Sound and Music Sampler has called them “Freudian expressionist teenage minimalist avant-rockers.” The 405 say they “sound so interesting and good,” while This Music Wins blog states: “Kinnie The Explorer manage to combine cool stillness and frenetic kinetic activity in precisely the same field - evoking that sense of uncanny suspension so typical of moving through over-familiar yet alienating urban landscapes, like observing strangers lit in high-rise stairwells at night from a fast moving train. This is a young group who pay attention to detail and mood, don't strive for pointless effect and achieve something timeless.” Tonight the group unveil a set of new songs from their forthcoming debut album.



MOUNTAINS OF THE MIND

Mountains of the Mind is the nom de guerre of Dr Strangely Strange, known by aficionados of psychedelia as an integral part of Joe Boyd's Witchseason Productions rostra, friends and collaborators of The Incredible String Band,and folk-rock's equivalent of the mythical Trí Dé Dána.

JAMIE ISAAC

Completing the bill is seventeen year old Jamie Isaac. Crack in the Road has hailed Isaac as “possibly their favourite new artist of the year” - the prodigious purveyor of poignantly haunting, utterly beautiful, emotionally strained music, “fusing ambient instrumentation, a melancholic piano section and startlingly brilliant vocals... a subtly entrancing method of announcing oneself upon the musical scene.” This is his live debut – not to be missed.

Jamie Isaac on Myspace

CHRIS CORNETTO

As ever, Chris Cornetto spins the platters in the intervals for Club Integral while the immersive lightshow comes courtesy of Rucksack Cinema. An extra special guest performer is to be confirmed.



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