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Sidney & Matilda Presents: The Utopia Strong
+ Andrew Liles
Call it synchronicity, call it happenstance, call it no more thanthree friends getting together to give their speakers a workout.Yet The Utopia Strong’s formidable conflagration ofpsychedelic radiance and beatific harmony has evolved waybeyond all or any expectations since the band’s inception..‘International Treasure’ chronicles the collaborative collisionof Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York heading intounchartered psychic territory, seemingly with nothing but theirinstincts as co-ordinates.
What’s resulted is a step beyond anything either band oraudience might have expected - a deeply rewarding voyageinto inner space which moves into darker and still moreevocative sound-worlds whilst remaining fundamentally offthe map. Influences know no bounds in this context, and thelistener would be forgiven for locating the atmospheres andsoundscapes of this album on some sonic promontory aboveand between the potent abstractions of Tim Hecker, theimprovisatory excursions of The Necks, and the gothic allureof Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore.
‘International Treasure’’ is the next chapter in a story whichonly grows more rewarding with every stop along the way -one in which three heads travel together deeper into their ownmusical journeys, and the resulting alchemical powertransmutes its origins into gold. As no less a sage thanAndrew Weatherall proclaimed, The Utopia Strong are“gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.
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Doors: 7:45pm
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Sidney & Matilda, Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield, EN, United Kingdom
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