Ho!
A third preview for tomorrow's sob-filled shenanigans courtesy of the ever-excellent KNEEL BEFORE ZOD:
And have that much-promised LAST EVER interview with Pawl Klotschkow/Kalashnikov at Left Lion:
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/souvaris/id/4289
Until tomorrow!
Showing posts with label Souvaris. Show all posts
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
Monday, 9 January 2012
Saturday, 15 October 2011
FUCKSTICKS
Really sorry for the late, late notice, but unfortunately we've had to cancel our appearance at A Carefully Planned Festival today due to illness. We're really sorry to disappoint anyone who was planning on seeing us!
Friday, 14 October 2011
A CAREFULLY FLAMMED PESTIVAL
A Carefully Planned Festival update: We'll be playing at Gullivers at 10pm on Saturday 15th - that's tomorrow!
Weekend tickets are only £10 in advance from wegottickets and day tickets are £7 on the door.
You can see a full programme of the weekend at ACarefullyPlannedFestival.wordpress. Other bands playing include our good friends The FTSE 100, PLANK! and Crash of Rhinos - check it out!
Weekend tickets are only £10 in advance from wegottickets and day tickets are £7 on the door.
You can see a full programme of the weekend at ACarefullyPlannedFestival.wordpress. Other bands playing include our good friends The FTSE 100, PLANK! and Crash of Rhinos - check it out!
Monday, 12 September 2011
A CAREFULLY PLANNED FESTIVAL
Hot off the monitor screen: Souvaris will be appearing at Manchester's Carefully Planned Festival on Saturday 15th October.
We're rather pleased about it. It's been a while since we've played Manchester! Hopefully we'll have physical copies of our new album, "Souvaris Souvaris", to sell by then too. Hot cakes, goddammit!
More details about the event soon including full line-up and what time we'll be playing.
xxx
EDIT: We'll be playing at Gullivers at 10pm on Saturday 15th - that's tomorrow!
Weekend tickets are only £10 in advance from wegottickets and day tickets are £7 on the door.
You can see a full programme of the weekend at ACarefullyPlannedFestival.wordpress. Other bands playing include our good friends The FTSE 100, PLANK! and Crash of Rhinos - check it out!
We're rather pleased about it. It's been a while since we've played Manchester! Hopefully we'll have physical copies of our new album, "Souvaris Souvaris", to sell by then too. Hot cakes, goddammit!
More details about the event soon including full line-up and what time we'll be playing.
xxx
EDIT: We'll be playing at Gullivers at 10pm on Saturday 15th - that's tomorrow!
Weekend tickets are only £10 in advance from wegottickets and day tickets are £7 on the door.
You can see a full programme of the weekend at ACarefullyPlannedFestival.wordpress. Other bands playing include our good friends The FTSE 100, PLANK! and Crash of Rhinos - check it out!
Monday, 22 August 2011
SOUVARIS SHOEVARIS SCHMOOVARIS
Jesus, another blog post? Already? What possibly could the occasion be? Oh, just THIS. Out in October y'all:
OH YEAH.
OH YEAH.
Sunday, 21 August 2011
AWAKENING FROM OUR SLUMBER
Hola!
After successfully maintaining radio silence for another extended period over the spring and summer, the behemoth that is THE SOUVARIS finally peeps open an eyelid and stirred at the start of August. After successfully sleeping through the marriage of two of its members and a whole lot of other things going on in everyone's lives, we finally got together and decided: IT'S TIME TO FINISH THE ALBUM.
And guess what? We actually went and did it. Okay, it took Matt Gringo threatening to castrate the lot of us if we couldn't get our act together for an October release, and then the promise of playing with our good friends (who also have their own, incredible, album coming out) Zun Zun Egui if we could get things sorted out in time, but we finally, finally have finished it. And it only took 21 months. Easy.
So, we worked our arses off...
(well, some of us did)
... and a few long days, late nights and good-natured arguments later, we haz dun it and it's finished. THANK GOD FOR THAT.
More news with some details of what to expect soon, but in the meantime, visit our new Facebook page - the old group got deleted - where you can find some sexy new information. Don't bother with Myspace though, it's old hat and we hate it. You probably do too.
Toodle-pip!
s.v.r.s.
xxxxx
Thursday, 21 October 2010
EUROPEAN TOUR 2010
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone who came out for our tenth birthday! We had an excellent time and really, really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks too to Ed Wood Jr and Fresh Eyes for the Dead Guy, both of whom threatened to blow us off the stage, and to all of you who indulged in munching cake, stomping on balloons and letting off pathetically weak party poppers. Left Lion have written a very kind review of the night here.
But now! We are about to depart these shores for some excitement (and 2,000-odd miles) in the continent, visiting France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany:
SOUVARIS EUROPEAN JAUNT NO.4
Sunday 31 October | Arrive home for for a nice cup of tea
As you can see, we have a couple of days off due to impending shows having to be cancelled. If you live anywhere near where we're likely to be (between Zurich and Lyon, and Bordeaux and Le Havre), and fancy having a sweaty sextet of young Englishmen take you out for a beer/play your front porch/crash on your sofa, please get in touch! Currently we're planning on investigating vinyards and avoiding getting caught up in riots. Fun! Email: ichbinsimmo@gmail.com.
To soundtrack this momentous occasion, our fourth (and most ambitious) European tour, we have prepared a load of mixtapes to soundtrack our glorious travels/counter terminal boredom encountered by spending 50% of each day in a smelly van. Here's a random slice of goodness for you - it's not very representative of our collective tastes (we argue about music all the time - it's one of the reasons we've stayed together), but more of what my (David's) aural receptors have been getting off on in recent weeks. Named in honour of a random pronouncement by Nick of Chameleon infamy, we present you with...
"Just Get Me A... Mermaid" - A Souvaris Mixtape
1. Leftfield feat. Afrika Bambaataa - Africa Shox
2. Sir Lord Baltimore - Master Heartache
3. Disco Inferno - It's a Kid's World
4. The Para-monts - I Don't Want To Lose You
5. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
6. W. John Ondolo - Tumshukuru Mungu
7. Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Mother's Love
8. Gavin Bryars - Raising the Titanic (Big Drum Mix)
9. PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
10. Harvey Milk - I Do No Know How To Live My Life
11. Speed, Glue & Shinki - Mr Walking Drugstore Man
12. Shorty - Coopie and Me
13. Daft Punk - Around the World
14. The Jesus Lizard - Boilermaker
15. Pumice - Pumiceraft
16. Mike Hanapi's Ilima Islanders - Hilo Hula
Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who came out for our tenth birthday! We had an excellent time and really, really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks too to Ed Wood Jr and Fresh Eyes for the Dead Guy, both of whom threatened to blow us off the stage, and to all of you who indulged in munching cake, stomping on balloons and letting off pathetically weak party poppers. Left Lion have written a very kind review of the night here.
But now! We are about to depart these shores for some excitement (and 2,000-odd miles) in the continent, visiting France, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany:
SOUVARIS EUROPEAN JAUNT NO.4
Friday 22 October | Liege, BE | La Zone
Saturday 23 October | Nancy, FR | Le Coup De Monocle
Sunday 24 October | Freiburg, DE | White Rabbit Club
Monday 25 October | Zurich, CH | Boschbar
Tuesday 26 October | Day off
Wednesday 27 October | Lyon, FR | Le Sonic
Thursday 28 October | Bordeaux, FR | Le Nouveau Locale
Friday 29 October | Day off
Saturday 30 October | Le Havre, FR | McDaid'sSaturday 23 October | Nancy, FR | Le Coup De Monocle
Sunday 24 October | Freiburg, DE | White Rabbit Club
Monday 25 October | Zurich, CH | Boschbar
Tuesday 26 October | Day off
Wednesday 27 October | Lyon, FR | Le Sonic
Thursday 28 October | Bordeaux, FR | Le Nouveau Locale
Friday 29 October | Day off
Sunday 31 October | Arrive home for for a nice cup of tea
As you can see, we have a couple of days off due to impending shows having to be cancelled. If you live anywhere near where we're likely to be (between Zurich and Lyon, and Bordeaux and Le Havre), and fancy having a sweaty sextet of young Englishmen take you out for a beer/play your front porch/crash on your sofa, please get in touch! Currently we're planning on investigating vinyards and avoiding getting caught up in riots. Fun! Email: ichbinsimmo@gmail.com.
To soundtrack this momentous occasion, our fourth (and most ambitious) European tour, we have prepared a load of mixtapes to soundtrack our glorious travels/counter terminal boredom encountered by spending 50% of each day in a smelly van. Here's a random slice of goodness for you - it's not very representative of our collective tastes (we argue about music all the time - it's one of the reasons we've stayed together), but more of what my (David's) aural receptors have been getting off on in recent weeks. Named in honour of a random pronouncement by Nick of Chameleon infamy, we present you with...
"Just Get Me A... Mermaid" - A Souvaris Mixtape
1. Leftfield feat. Afrika Bambaataa - Africa Shox
2. Sir Lord Baltimore - Master Heartache
3. Disco Inferno - It's a Kid's World
4. The Para-monts - I Don't Want To Lose You
5. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
6. W. John Ondolo - Tumshukuru Mungu
7. Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou - Mother's Love
8. Gavin Bryars - Raising the Titanic (Big Drum Mix)
9. PJ Harvey - The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
10. Harvey Milk - I Do No Know How To Live My Life
11. Speed, Glue & Shinki - Mr Walking Drugstore Man
12. Shorty - Coopie and Me
13. Daft Punk - Around the World
14. The Jesus Lizard - Boilermaker
15. Pumice - Pumiceraft
16. Mike Hanapi's Ilima Islanders - Hilo Hula
Enjoy!
Thursday, 23 September 2010
SOUVARIS IS: TEN
Woot woot and word up.
In exactly one week's time we will have finished blowing sound down your earholes at the distinctly impressive Nottingham Contemporary - look, there's even a proper webpage and poster and everything here: http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/music-exchange-present-souvaris.
Then you might have noticed that we're heading off for our holidays in late October, stopping off in Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland for some quality shows (and Luxembourg for some cheap petrol, no doubt). But what are we going to do inbetween?
Oh yeah, it's only our MOTHERFLIPPING TENTH BIRTHDAY.
Yeesh, we've been pissing away our spare time, money and hearing on this shit for a decade now. Just think what much more productive things we could have done in the meantime. So what are we going to do to celebrate? Well, throw a fucking cool party, of course! We've invited some pals to play, and, heck, we'll even make some noise ourselves (and probably a load of different songs to the Contemporary gig). Simmo and Helene have been fantastic enough actual humans to organise a swanky Saturday night out for you all:
That's Saturday 16th October, at Chameleon, Nottingham.SOUVARIS (Gringo, UK)
ED WOOD JR (Lille, FR)
FRESH EYES FOR THE DEAD GUY
...STOP EJECT
£5 / DOORS 8.30pm
Clique Clack is delighted to invite you to a warm-up show for Souvaris' upcoming European tour. In the spirit of international exchange, Ed Wood Jr from Lille, France will be representing the froggy side of the Entente Cordiale. Add a couple of local rock behemoths to the proceedings in the form of Fresh Eyes For The Dead Guy and Stop Eject, and you have yourselves quite in evening indeed! Mmmmmm.
Full details at http://www.facebook.com/?sk=events#!/event.php?eid=153931577958482
See you there! Bring cake. It's gonna get messy.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
FIVE LADS WHO SHOOK THE WIRRAL
Ooh! Well, it only took us ten years. We finally have a real press shot! Four of them, even. We are enormously indebted to the exceptional Steve Gullick, who took these shots of us at our most earnest and sweaty at Chameleon, Nottingham after our split LP launch party.
If you'd like high resolution versions of these photos for press purposes, don't hesitate to get in touch: ichbinsimmo at gmail dot com. Feel free to repost wherever you see fit, but do be sure to credit Steve Gullick. Cheers!
If you'd like high resolution versions of these photos for press purposes, don't hesitate to get in touch: ichbinsimmo at gmail dot com. Feel free to repost wherever you see fit, but do be sure to credit Steve Gullick. Cheers!
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Millions Now Living Will Die Young In A Cold Dead Spiderland
Recording for our third album, possibly or possibly not titled as above, is almost done. We our now preparing ourselves for six months of experimentation, mixing, mastering, and arguments about gates and compressors.
We're very excited about this record. In the past, give or take a few overdubs and sonic tweaks, our recorded output has largely been the sound of a band playing live in a room. This time we're aiming for something that sounds radically different to previous ventures, so we've decided to take a totally different approach. Each instrument is being tracked individually, giving us a lot more freedom for production tomfoolery. The idea/hope is that the production process will become an integral part of the songwriting process.
It's exciting and yet scary, as we don't know quite what the record will sound like. About all we know so far is that it will feature seven or eight tracks and will be our shortest album by some length. I have high hopes that it will be by far the best thing we have ever released... here's to hoping that we don't fuck it up.
Aaron, meanwhile, continues to thrive on the Indian subcontinent. Our only fear for him is that that upon his return (July) he will want to lay down some tabla overdubs.
Crikey.
We're very excited about this record. In the past, give or take a few overdubs and sonic tweaks, our recorded output has largely been the sound of a band playing live in a room. This time we're aiming for something that sounds radically different to previous ventures, so we've decided to take a totally different approach. Each instrument is being tracked individually, giving us a lot more freedom for production tomfoolery. The idea/hope is that the production process will become an integral part of the songwriting process.
It's exciting and yet scary, as we don't know quite what the record will sound like. About all we know so far is that it will feature seven or eight tracks and will be our shortest album by some length. I have high hopes that it will be by far the best thing we have ever released... here's to hoping that we don't fuck it up.
Aaron, meanwhile, continues to thrive on the Indian subcontinent. Our only fear for him is that that upon his return (July) he will want to lay down some tabla overdubs.
Crikey.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Reviews of "Clown Jazz"
Reviews of our new split release with Sincabeza (out on Monday 22nd February) are beginning to trickle through. Here are the first couple:
Drowned In Sound
"A masterclass in self-expression without a single spoken word being uttered throughout."
Subba Cultcha
"A warped, fractured take on jazz fed through a distorted blender of guitars and electronics [...] which showcases a creatively diverse band at the peak of their powers."
Pennyblackmusic
"A must for any math rock head"
Rock-A-Rolla
"It's all good."
God Is In The TV
"A Wish You Were Here-style snapshot of a paradise island you will never visit."
Die Shellsuit Die
"Souvaris’ raid on Tortoise fairly leaps from the speakers... pleasing and surprising"
Culture Deluxe
"An impressive new groove-driven direction [...] rather wonderful".
Echoes and Dust
"Off-beat math funk, tightly grooved and interspersed with quirky melodies and a charming exuberancy [...] a great listen."
The Silent Ballet
"The stamina these guys have is amazing; from start to finish, the album is nine-tenths bounce-around-the-room hyperactivity, with the remainder providing just enough breather to remind the listener just how energetic the rest is."
Liability (in French)
"Clown Jazz est comme un révélateur de la bonne santé du math-rock actuel et montre même que l'on peut parvenir à surpasser l'étiquette de genre dans laquelle on les affuble généralement. Un must."
Benzine (in French)
"Un grand cru, indéniablement."
Mille Feuille (in French)
"Rien que pulsation, puissance, vitesse et vie."
Muzzart (in French)
"Force et finesse cohabitent merveilleusement et la rupture voulue et mise en place par Souvaris s'avère juste et débouche sur un horizon différent mais parfaitement en phase avec ce qui précède, preuve de l'adresse affichée dans l'addition d'atmosphères et dans l'élaboration de celles-ci."
DMute (in French)
"Certains parlent de claque, je préfère parler de caresse, l'une plus appuyée que l'autre."
Perte Et Fracas (in French)
"Contrairement à une majorité de groupes du même acabit qui finissent toujours par s'en/vous endormir, Souvaris ne joue pas sur le contraste montée/descente mais sur la richesse des sons et contre toute attente, fini par séduire."
More to follow soon!
Drowned In Sound
"A masterclass in self-expression without a single spoken word being uttered throughout."
Subba Cultcha
"A warped, fractured take on jazz fed through a distorted blender of guitars and electronics [...] which showcases a creatively diverse band at the peak of their powers."
Pennyblackmusic
"A must for any math rock head"
Rock-A-Rolla
"It's all good."
God Is In The TV
"A Wish You Were Here-style snapshot of a paradise island you will never visit."
Die Shellsuit Die
"Souvaris’ raid on Tortoise fairly leaps from the speakers... pleasing and surprising"
Culture Deluxe
"An impressive new groove-driven direction [...] rather wonderful".
Echoes and Dust
"Off-beat math funk, tightly grooved and interspersed with quirky melodies and a charming exuberancy [...] a great listen."
The Silent Ballet
"The stamina these guys have is amazing; from start to finish, the album is nine-tenths bounce-around-the-room hyperactivity, with the remainder providing just enough breather to remind the listener just how energetic the rest is."
Liability (in French)
"Clown Jazz est comme un révélateur de la bonne santé du math-rock actuel et montre même que l'on peut parvenir à surpasser l'étiquette de genre dans laquelle on les affuble généralement. Un must."
Benzine (in French)
"Un grand cru, indéniablement."
Mille Feuille (in French)
"Rien que pulsation, puissance, vitesse et vie."
Muzzart (in French)
"Force et finesse cohabitent merveilleusement et la rupture voulue et mise en place par Souvaris s'avère juste et débouche sur un horizon différent mais parfaitement en phase avec ce qui précède, preuve de l'adresse affichée dans l'addition d'atmosphères et dans l'élaboration de celles-ci."
DMute (in French)
"Certains parlent de claque, je préfère parler de caresse, l'une plus appuyée que l'autre."
Perte Et Fracas (in French)
"Contrairement à une majorité de groupes du même acabit qui finissent toujours par s'en/vous endormir, Souvaris ne joue pas sur le contraste montée/descente mais sur la richesse des sons et contre toute attente, fini par séduire."
More to follow soon!
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Souvaris/Sincabeza - "Clown Jazz" digital release - available now!
Dear friends without record players,
Fret not! If you buy a copy of the new LP, you'll find a download code snuck inside so you can get your digital kicks alongside those (admit, much nicer sounding) superior analogue sounds emanating from your stereo.
Alternatively, if you don't want a weighty great 12" clogging up space in your fashionable abode, you can always buy a digital version of the Souvaris side to clutter up your hard drive instead. And you should be able to find a version in just about any format you could possibly want!
Check out http://souvaris.bandcamp.com, or just have a click below:
Fret not! If you buy a copy of the new LP, you'll find a download code snuck inside so you can get your digital kicks alongside those (admit, much nicer sounding) superior analogue sounds emanating from your stereo.
Alternatively, if you don't want a weighty great 12" clogging up space in your fashionable abode, you can always buy a digital version of the Souvaris side to clutter up your hard drive instead. And you should be able to find a version in just about any format you could possibly want!
Check out http://souvaris.bandcamp.com, or just have a click below:
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