HANDLE (UK) + KANIPCHEN-FIT + DJ STEVE

HANDLE (UK, Absolute Fiction/Upset! The Rhythm)

HANDLE incorporate a diverse range of influences, from samba to no wave. Handle, a three-piece from Manchester (now based between Manchester/London/Brussels) make a uniquely minimal sound, buoyed by poetic, urgent vocals. Each instrument (bass, drums, keyboard and voice) is permitted its own space, yet somehow the result is a brilliantly unified yet understated sonic experience that demands then commands your attention

Handle is made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire (former members of D.U.D.S) and Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist, renowned for their challenging, thought-provoking work on the city’s arts and literary scenes. The group mesh politics with a trans experience of time and a vibrant, avant-garde freedom of approach.

https://absolutefiction.bandcamp.com/album/collide

KANIPCHEN-FIT

KANIPCHEN-FIT  GOT A NEW RELEASE “Survival Moves”! (EmGlo Records) which is this duo still musically shifting from aggressive pieces to melancholic songs and lots of funky grooves and moves in between.

Fronted by performance artist, vocalist, poet Gloria formerly of the legendary, all-female group of performance-based New York poets called the Pussy Poets and Empee Holwerda from the Dutch bands punk-wave Lul, through new-wavy post-postrock of Solbakken, to his current bluesy rock-grooves on guitar, beats & sounds, and vocals. Some even went as far as to call it funky protest music for the twenty-first century. Their songs are simple and straightforward, double vocals, a rough and loud guitar, with unexpected rhythmic and harmonic changes, with spoken word, avoiding rock-clichés.

They’ve played in the US, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia. They’ve also opened for Thurston Moore (US), Blurt (UK), Wire (UK), and The Ex (NL).

bandcamp.com › kanipchen-fit    

Gloria – vocals
Empee – guitar, beats, vocals

https://kanipchen-fit.bandcamp.com/album/survival-moves

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