Kap Bambino coming to L.A.

KAP BAMBINO TOUR NORTH AMERICA
BATCAVES EP OUT NOV 16th
FULL LENGTH 'BLACKLIST' DUE 2010

North American Tour Dates
November 12 - Wrong Bar - Toronto, ON
November 13 - Foufounes Electriques - Montreal, QC
November 14 - The Studio @ Webster Hall - New York, NY
November 15 - Venue - Vancouver, BC
November 17 - Dance @ ARENA Nightclub - Los Angeles, CA
November 19 - Popscene/330 Ritch - San Francisco, CA

Kap Bambino, a stampeding punk-rock juggernaut, hurtling our way. Unlike most assaults of lawless rock'n'roll ideals, they're not powered by guitars but an empowering eruption of frenzied discordance, space invader sucker-punch beats, and caterwauling incantations. Conjured by Bordeaux duo Caroline Martial and Orion Bouvier, their unique sound is the result of harnessing the unruly spirit of bands like Suicide and Nirvana, then feeding it through a tangled web of samplers, synthesizers and software modules.

The result is a more immediate, kinetic, and inspiring show than you're likely to ever witness from any of the baggy-shorted buffoons 2009 has tried to throw up as punk-rockers. Live onstage, Kap Bambino's manifesto is crystal clear: A union of liberation and abandon all in the name of love, (otherwise known as one giant next generation mosh-pit where any innocent bystanders are doomed to a messy fate of cyclone limbs, unabashed elation and down right goofiness). "It may sound cheesy," grins Caroline, "but everything we do, we do as if it's the last time. Every show, the last one. Every song we record, the same. Every plane we get on, we assume it will crash. I think that's what makes our music what it is."

Batcaves, the latest single from their forthcoming full length album Blacklist (the third from this frenetic noise pop duo, due 2010) is described by singer Caroline Martial as a “a call to all the bats out there”, their forthcoming EP also titled Batcaves is set for digital release on November 16th on i-Tunes.

The release comes with an impressive remix package. Jackson, Warp’s French enigma, sends the original on a suspense-laden joyride, whilst Institubes wunderkind Bobmo has emerged from the batcave with a club number guaranteed to get hands in the air in clubland. To round things off, you’ll find a scuzzy cover from Bordeaux garage rockers Hello Sunshine and a twisted house spin on the original by Orion himself under his remix alias Maton.

Batcaves’ psychotic groove comes skulking in from the get go and never relents in its total dominance. Synthesizers buzz in layers around the impassioned vocals of Caroline before it all mutates into a joyous chorus and a tearaway glitchy outro. This is a track guaranteed to inspire recklessness in the anarchic hearts of every listener.

This summer Kap Bambino has caused mayhem across the globe, including Glastonbury, Les Inrocks, Latitude, Jersey Live and Offset. Powered by lawless rock’n’roll ideals, guitars and other live instruments have been laid redundant by the Bordeaux natives, Caroline Martial and Orion Bouvier. A spiraling tangle of synthesizers, plugins, samplers act as the medium for Kap Bambino to channel the unruly spirit of bands like Suicide and Nirvana. The ensuing maelstrom is immediate, kinetic and inspirational


"A wall melting hurricane of white noise"Loud & Quiet"Caroline Martial's diminutive size and innocent eyes become the razor's edge that cuts through dark, pounding dirge, pulling everyone in the room into Kap Bambino's digital madness"Clash"Amp-ravaging force"Cargo"Utterly brilliant"NME


The Story:
When the pair first got chatting at a house party in 2001, it was with an intrinsic connection which Caroline aptly compares as "electricity." They’d been pursuing very similar paths - bad hardcore punk bands, notepad DIY philosophizing, and tentative experiments into the realms of noisetronica. After some spookily similar comparing of notes, it became apparent that they were destined to unite forces and start actually making stuff happen.

The aforementioned stuff manifested itself in several forms: Firstly, their joint label Wwilko, which has been housing an incredible slew of homeless, free-spirited electronic masterpieces of various baffling forms for over eight years now and secondly, with Kap Bambino. It took some persuading, but eventually Caroline convinced Orion to let her yell over the top of the surges of digital brimstone he'd been conjuring before the glare of his laptop monitor. What followed was three albums, numerous EPs and singles, and countless gigs worth evolving into electronic noise-pop love-punk bedlam.

From their first marauding collaborations on 2002's 'Love,' where Caroline's deathly wails came garrotted by crippling distortion and Orion's tracks torn-apart by a near grindcore levels of metallic intensity, to the locomotive power-glitch of 2006's 'Zero Life, Night Vision' which announced them amidst the garden of mid-naughties noisy-rave culture culminating in Alt Delete's ‘Digital Penetration’ compilation, Kap Bambino was led to lay most of Europe, America and Japan. Leaving the world to waste with their now legendary riot-inducing stage show, the Bordeux-duo garnered worshipping press tributes from the likes of NME, Dazed and Confused, Another Magazine, and Dummy.

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