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About Me

Zukanican are based in Liverpool, centred around a mysterious neo-classical worshipping building. All manner of strange activities take place there, but none so more strange as the sight of four musicians gathering together to incant in their native mother tongue of zukan.....
If you would like to book Zukanican to play, please don't be shy - drop us a line.
Zukanican release their music on their own label Medical Records, as well as other sympathetic arthouses, such as Pickled Egg Records.
Zuk Artwork by James Pagella
S.O.M.B. video by Charlie Holden
ZukaVisuals by Lilly Join the Mailing List Enter your name and email address below: Name:
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Horse Republic (July 2006) Pickled Egg Records album
Astral Zuk Fodder (2005) Medical Records CD-R album
E 5number (2004) Pickled Egg Records vinyl EP
Jarr (2004) Medical Records CD-R album
None Jazz (2003) Medical Records CD-R album

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Member Since: 1/30/2006
Band Members: Phil Lucking: trumpets James Pagella: drums and percussion Harry Sumnall: synths and percussion Tom Sumnall: bass
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Sounds Like: Daunting but delightfully deranged Losing Today Magazine

.. their free-flowing improvisations, tasty Krautrock grooves and jazz flourishes immediately paint a huge aural canvas with thick layers of colors borrowed from just about everyone from Coltrane and Sun Ra to The Soft Machine and Bablicon. FoxydigitalisTis a groovy sound collage, mon! Fake JazzTheremin battery, skippy keys, s-bending bass, drill pattern drums, siren organ in continuum, other pulses muscling in on the action, a diversion into free-funk with sci-fi white noise cutting across. Vanity ProjectZukanican can safely be categorized as uncategorizeable Splendid Magazine..free jazz fragments flutter by like psychedelic moths attracted by the fire Dream Magazine
...a wholly satisfying and genre-defying collection of music...in an exhilarating musical stew, full of goodness and incredibly tasty. Ptolemaic Terrascope

Record Label: Pickled Egg Records & Medical Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Liverpool music documentary featuring Zukanican

Zukanican will be interviewed and featured in a forthcoming radio documentary about the Liverpool underground music scene on German radio station SWR.We've not heard any of the finished project and so...
Posted by Zukanican on Sun, 25 May 2008 12:12:00 PST

new album coming soon.....

Zukanican are very close to putting the finishing touches to a new album which will hopefully see the light of day before the end of 2008 on Pickled Egg Records.You have been warned.
Posted by Zukanican on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:51:00 PST

Eggstock 2007 review......

Little piece taken from The Music Towers website by Claire Kember. Review of Zukanican at Eggstock 2007."Down in the cinema it's soon time for Liverpool 4-piece Zukanican's audio-visual performance. P...
Posted by Zukanican on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:07:00 PST

all quiet on the north western front.....

well, zukanican's notoriously annual post-christmas hiatus is in full effect.we're currently mixing some songs down for a new album release (hi nigel) and pouring through the countless offers of ...
Posted by Zukanican on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:32:00 PST

The Italian Job Pt. II

click here to see an interview with the Italian webzine Ondarock.try translating with babelfish for hilarious results........
Posted by Zukanican on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:24:00 PST

The Zuk Speaks!

Ever seen Zukanican play and wondered whether they could possibly string a sentence together?Well, this year we have decided to speak to Vanity Project and you can see the results here....
Posted by Zukanican on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:37:00 PST