A wine-fuelled conversation in a university bar gives birth to mersaultmusic. Named after the great nihilist and drawing together a disparate and internationalist cast, the London-based group play their first show in November 2005. Less than a year later, they join forces with Fleet Street Records for their debut release.
Taking the three-minute-long-song as a point of departure, mersaultmusic toy with the regularities of the format. Wiry and interwoven guitars, idiosyncratic vocals, pulsing bass and man-machine drums play out a familiar verse-chorus march. Meanwhile, cyclical arrangements, frantic bursts of alien guitar noise, and canned atmospherics find their way into the mix. All this aside, the aim remains to create great rock music.
As for live performance, the group have developed a taste for the absurd and unexpected:
"...mersaultmusic stole the show with their supposedly 'live-via-
satellite' bass player, whose contribution could be viewed on a
TV set perched upon the stage."
(Major Leaguer, April 2006).
With an ever-expanding list of appearances under their belt and a double A-side single on its way, the mersaultmusic project is well and truly in motion.
