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.
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 …
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.
We’re currently putting the finishing touches to our next collective release; a recording from the Stoke Newington Airport concert back in May. It will be coming out in the new year as a free download, so look out for it … Also some more dates coming up in Berlin and the threat of a Not Applicable / Kammer Klang festival in 2010 … In the mean time, a big thanks to everyone out there for your support this year and all the best for 2010 ! (photo by Britt)