Last January, Isambard Khroustaliov, Maurizio Ravalico and Rudi Fischerlehner hooked up to have a play at Miss Hecker, in Berlin. What came out of two days of rehearsals and the gig that followed pleased them so much that they decided to turn this musical occurrence into an ongoing project.
The FIIUM SHAARRK trio is now again in Berlin, and they are having a stupidly good time while recording their debut album, which will no doubt find its way to your discerning ears before the end of the year…
You can read an interview (by Peter Hollo) about Icarus with Ollie Bown and Sam Britton in the latest issue of Cyclic Defrost, Australia’s quintessential (and only) electronic music magazine. The magazine itself is available to download for free here.
You can get a copy of the new Icarus live album: "All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds" here.
The new Icarus live album: "All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds" is now available! You can get a copy here. Australian tour dates here.
An epic occurrence: Icarus are playing some shows in Australia and to celebrate, Martin Hampton has edited some of the superb film he made for the live set to a new track called "Uke ‘Em" which you can see above.
On March 25th, we’ll also be releasing a live album entitled "All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds", recorded during the Sylt Remixes shows last summer to co-incide with the tour. The album features almost entirely new material ("Uke ‘Em" is one of the tracks featured), worked up over the course of the tour and will be available as a limited edition numbered CD and mp3 download. Watch this space …
Icarus – Antipodean Tour 2010
March 25th: Canberra (The Street Theatre) with Shoeb Ahmad, Reuben Ingall and Luke Penders
March 26th: Sydney (Bon Marche Studio, UTS) with Jon Hunter, Shoeb Ahmad, Jordan Bryon
March 28th: Melbourne (The Toff in Town) with Infinite Decimals, Ross Bencina, Casey Rice (DJ set)
(And an extra Melbourne show on March 31st brought to you by Audio Actions).
Isambard Khroustaliov will be re-interpreting his soundtrack to Martin Hampton‘s epic film ‘Traum’ live, on Saturday 27th February as part of the Interface III event at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival in Plymouth.
The film, which depicts the demise of the landscape surrounding the Lea Valley shortly before its compulsory acquisition for the London Olympics, is a chilling portrait of how easily despondency and despair can set in when communities are faced with such large scale turmoil and uncertainly.
