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Showing posts with label Alexander Tucker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexander Tucker. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Fur Power!


We, Grumbling Fur, are releasing our second full length album 'Glynnaestra' through Thrill Jockey records on July 22nd. Here's the bumph...
  
Daniel O’Sullivan of Ulver and Guapo and Alexander Tucker (Imbogodom) have announced that they'll be joining forces again as Grumbling Fur for a new album of psychedelic sonic explorations, Glynnaestra. The duo "have crafted an avant-pop album assembled as one would a collage," reads the text accompanying the album's release. "This structural foundation is built up via an eclectic array of instruments, both acoustic and modified, to pulsating electronic sounds. ... As their history attests, this is a group unbound from the restrictions of traditionalism and unafraid to shed the pretence of pure abstraction. There's a tradition of subterranean Englishness at play, harking back to This Heat's Deceit and Eno's Another Green World. In their first fully realised album as a duo, the process and texture ripple with a kind of electro-gnosis. Glynnaestra herself (an archaic goddess divined by Tucker and O'Sullivan) presides over the record, transcendent and sphinx like: an apt muse for an album of such lovely and powerful music." 

We're also featured in Serena Korda's film 'The Transmitters' currently showing at Camden Arts Centre as part of her new solo show 'Aping The Beast'. More details here. We're performing live third eye soundtracks to coincide with three ritual dance pieces around a 15ft green latex dinosaur puppet.

Some dates for your diaries...

27.03.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
17.04.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
27.04.13 - St. Pauls Church, Birmingham w/ Barn Owl and Ex Easter Island Head
04.05.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
08.06.13 - The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

We'll be playing some European dates in September which will be announced shortly.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Grumbling Fur is OUTRE


The Grumbling Fur album "Furrier" is out on Aurora Borealis Recordings. GF is myself and Alexander Tucker at the core. We recorded this a few years ago with Jussi Lehtisalo from Circle and Dave Smith from Guapo. I spent a long time editing and collaging this material with Antti Uusimaki (formerly of Mothlite). I was very much inspired by The Faust Tapes in the construction of this. The album features beautiful pen and ink illustrations by Alex and you can also order a T-shirt/CD combo which looks amazing too.


Click on the image to take you to the AB web shop.