#robocobra quartet

[solo1y]

Hey, you want to hear something like nothing you’ve heard? 

How about off-beat LCD Soundsystem-style shouted vocals + Bowie-style rhythm sax + growling electric bass + crazy percussion. Correct? Correct! 

This might be the most perfect three minutes of your life.

Have fun working out the time signature. No, really. If you work it out, please include it in the comments section. It keeps slipping away from me when I try to count it out.

Update 4 January 2016: A music-intensive friend of mine called Pete cracked it: 

“It's a 2 bar thing.  A 4/4 followed by a 9/8. The "lump" is the extra half beat in the second bar.  Snare on beats 2 and 4 in the first bar and off beat in the second. You could think of the first beat in the second bar being a half beat longer than the first beat in the first bar.”

[andmaybegayer]

back at it again

[sxsw2013gg]

AB: Robocobra Quartet, at the British Music Embassy, was a great choice for last show of the festival. They’re jazzy and experimental, but crowd-pleasing. They’re wordy but propulsive. They’re dancing at the edge of the abyss. The drummer is the vocalist and delivers excellent stage banter.

[ewanspence]

Past the half-way mark of my top 12 new tracks of 2022 in #2022x12.

Today is Belfast's finest 'post-punk jazz' troupe Robocobra Quartet.s track. 'Heaven'. From their third album, the band once more focus on spoken word wrapped around improvisational jazz. There's a subtly to the structure, and basically more of what I love about the Quartet.

Read more at www.tinyurl.com/2022x12

[boitedeconcert]

Robocobra Quartet

Cobalt Studios, Newcastle, England. 23/09/22.

[boitedeconcert]

Robocobra Quartet

Empty Shop HQ, djazz Festival, Durham, England. 01/06/18.

[hardcorefornerds]

Vinyl Sunday: Robocobra Quartet, Plays Hard To Get (2018) [Bandcamp]

(last pic - bonus excerpt from vocal score for ‘I Shouldn’t Have Watched The Film What Lies Beneath (When I Was Twelve)’ and its multi-part harmony)

[hardcorefornerds]

“We definitely did that one a lot quicker than this record. There’s more of a simplicity to ‘Music For All Occasions’, but this album is much more layered. Some of my favourite albums offer you new things to hear with each listen, even after years. There’s a lot of the orchestration on this album that is somewhat buried, or momentary, to offer that kind of effect. There are drum machines, and string sections, and voices all over the place that are only really audible on headphones. Jeez… some mix engineer, eh?”

Robocobra Quartet | Village Magazine

Really liking the new Robocobra Quartet album, Plays Hard To Get - though true to title, I think it’ll take a while to really start to unpack*. This is what I wrote about their previous album; this album isn’t quite as rock-heavy, or noise-jazzy

* I recently purchased a pair of wireless, noise-cancelling Sennheiser headphones and I’m really loving how involved I can get with music in them.