superstrings

Superstrings began in early 2005 as an improvising three-piece rock group employing guitar, drums and vocals with the intention of collaborating with a series of musicians and recording three albums of instant compositions by the end of the year. To catch the band live at the moment is to witness the formative stage - a group striving for an emergent identity. Influenced by the musique actuelle of bands like Can and Faust, Superstrings are making themselves in no image, instead allowing the music to make the band. Simon King's guitar playing, doctored with effects and cannibalised electronic toys, becomes braided through with the clattering percussion of Paul May and the vocal attack of the original 'yello-woman' Atsuko Kamura, one moment howling in protest and the next wheedling and teasing. The band have already recorded two albums, the first featuring the imperious CD manipulations of The Hand of Glory aka Lepke Buchwalter, the second live at Conway Hall with strings.