Club Integral with Kinnie the Explorer

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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 la!
ndscapes, 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 is the nom de guerre of musicians of such legendary stature that a veil of secrecy has had to be drawn over their special guest appearance at Club Integral. Suffice to say, think Joe Boyd's Witchseason, think psychedelia, think Incredible String Band, think folk-rock's equivalent of the Trí Dé Dána - and you'll be half way there.
Prodigious purveryor of haunting bedroom-produced ambient songs, 17 year old Jamie Isaac is simply "One of the most exciting young prospects in music" according to Crack in the Road. He makes his live debut tonight.
As ever, Chris Cornetto spins the platters in the intervals for Club Integral while the immersive lightshow comes courtesy of Rucksack Cinema.