Perico and the Paper Cinema

Music:

Member Since: 11/22/2005
Band Website: perico.co.uk
Band Members: Matt Cameron: Vox and Guitars
Rob Parkinson: Bass and Hammer Dulcimer
Rich Jenkins: Drums
Kieron Maguire: Viola and Guitars
Gavin Sant: Cornet and Percussion
John Holmes Guitars and backing vox

plus live animation by the award-winning Paper Cinema

Influences:

Sounds Like: "Radiohead meets Morricone. Love the instrumentation."...David Holmes, producer/film composer.

"It has taken three years for Perico to plunder their way through antique shops and musical styles to bring you the flamboyant display of moods, sounds and instruments you see today. While they most definitely hark from the UK, with ironic ballads of break-up suburban drudgery and drunken misadventure abounding, Perico at the same time offer and antidote to this world. And they have found a worthy soul-mate in the Paper Cinema - the brainchild of artist Nic Beard - a stange contraption of paper puppets that rattles to life before each gig, projecting its bizarre cast behind leaping silhouttes of Perico's musicians. Like Perico, The Paper Cinema is a world at odds with itself, trapped between ancient myth and modern day fable. Needless to say the two entities reemain inseparable." Future Cinema

"Imagine a musical landscape full of romance, with flamenco-style acoustic guitars and trumpets; with sudden bursts of passion and slow interludes of implicit tragedy. The only other British indie band I can think of who likewise cultivate their fertile garden without a care for a world of fashionable facsimiles is The Tindersticks." Neil Scott, The Mind's Construction.

"Here we find slow Spanish guitars and exotic lyrics building up to an El Mariachi stomp as the distinctive cornet helps create a wistful image of some lost Mexican landscape. The lilting interchange between hushed guitar and frenzied cornet builds to a climatic finish of Mexican chants that wouldn’t sound out of place in a Tarantino movie." Maxim Fernandez, Glasswerk.

"Utterly unique…a singer and his pocket-orchestra that swing between debauched cabaret and profound melancholy" The Guardian.

"It's hard to pin down, but Perico have hit upon quite a unique sound that echoes an unscripted cabaret. An animation show performed by the Paper Cinema, displayed on a big screen in unison, compliments the songs with romantic images of revellers caught up in a dark but sweet world of their own making. It's a strange improvised cocktail not on any existing menu, but Perico know how to make and shake it." Battersea Arts Centre, London.

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