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Apalusa Live From The Dry Valleys Waterscape Records (WS08) Released: August 2008 Recorded upstairs in Nottingham, January 2008. Bright red 3" CDr packaged in a clear plastic sleeve with a folded photograph. Limited edition of 100 copies Free download on Soundcloud

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Souvaris "Irreversible" - postkrautrock?

Now in their eleventh year together, Nottingham’s Souvaris release their long awaited third full length album, Souvaris Souvaris, on Gringo Records.   Following on from their previous Gringo releases - the warmly received album A Hat (2007) and their split 12” Clown Jazz (2010) - Souvaris Souvaris sees the band continue to move away from the sheepish melodrama favoured by some instrumental artists, and have become ever more willing to explore different feelings, textures and ideas in their music. The influences audible on Souvaris Souvaris come from a collection of varied, sometimes opposed, personal tastes – krautrock; metal; electronica; afrobeat; disco; pop – and are wound together into a fluid, coherent whole. The album’s theme is joyous musical self-exploration: by turns get-up-anddance funky; quietly reflective; and amp-shatteringly heavy. Growling beats, sci-fi synths, underground basslines and menacing guitars make way for headnodding disco and glittering ambient noise. Shrieking guitar freak-outs sit happily next to rich and lush pianos in such a way that sounds neither forced nor incongruous. From the subterranean bass rumble that kicks off the record to the euphoric dance grooves that finish up the album’s smile-inducing closer, it’s clear that this is an album without a beat of filler.

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The Young Ted Danson by Souvaris

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Gig diary #13: 17/05/03

Souvaris / Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element / Castro

The Enterprise, Camden, London

Our first London gig, as I recall. And it was a really good one. The Enterprise is just a pub up past the Barfly in Camden, and the gig room was just a room upstairs that looked more fit for a small birthday do, with a tiny PA brought in. The sound was incredibly ropey for a band with no drums, and yet the audience that came in was so brilliantly enthusiastic about everything we did that it couldn't help but be a brilliant night. There were only about 40 of them, but all seated at tables so it looked rammed and felt like a weird post-rock cabaret show. Souvaris were also brilliant, and I remember one of the guitarists climbing all over the bar during the final song. It was great to have been friends with a band you really like, and end up playing quite a few shows with them.

I've found the setlist for this show:

Another japanese big robot story

Kevin bacon has a tiny amplifier in his throat

I love you every time you smile

Using the devil as an excuse for some sex

Air explosions and octave breaks

Godzilla versus kathleen hanna

Girl thief

There are already enough photographs of people and doors

Souvaris also appeared on our Audioscope compilation CD, which this post has reminded me about. We were really proud of the lineup, and got help from a local arts-funded studio to record the Souvaris and Sunnyvale tunes for it. Amazing feeling to hold the first album you've had a hand in making yourself. 

Two things to close this post:

1) Souvaris have made a load of their stuff available for free download, so go and get it now.

2) And here's an old, old Sunnyvale track to listen to - 'Cow'. This was the nearest thing we did to a normal nice tune, and always seemed to go down really well live in the early days, but for some reason we stopped playing it altogether, then forgot how to play it and couldn't be bothered to re-learn it 'cos it didn't have massive techno beats in it. I miss it a bit. 

Sunnyvale were so childish that this song has a distorted sample of Giles shouting 'cock' during the final section when the electronics come in. And we wonder why we never made the big time.