Volcano The Bear have, in the words of The Wire magazine, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”.
Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded, or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.” They are one of experimental music’s best kept secrets.
A calculatedly hysterical melting pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism of occasionally theatrical improvisations and unhinged set pieces.
Volcano the Bear | She vang moon
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=E5W3dU-Ce98
Formed in 1995, and after several self-released tapes & cdrs, VTB so excited Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton that he brought his United Dairies label out of cold storage to release their first album proper, ‘The Inhazer Decline’, in 2000.
Since then, they’ve released music on such labels as Misra, Beta Lactam Ring, Textile, Digitalis, Pickled Egg, Alt Vinyl, and No-Fi as well as their own imprints Volucan & Volfurten.
On record, Volcano The Bear offer stark and stunning absurdities, in the most bizarrely beautiful way. VTB live is the duo of Daniel Padden & Aaron Moore.
In their unique, often chaotic live shows, the adrenalin and invention drips from their earlobes as they thrust spectacular oddities in the faces of their audiences, always aided by their sublime multi-instrumentalism.
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Volcano The Bear LIVE
Friday, 23 March 2012 | 21:00 CET
Kater Holzig | Michaelkirchstr. 23 | 10179 Berlin/Mitte
myspace.com/volcanothebear | katerholzig.de
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