Hyperpotamus plus Lewis Floyd Henry

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“When I sing as Hyperpotamus, I let the demons out, I sing my heart out. It becomes something very physical: air is sucked in, only to be exhaled at a great force, making me feel dizzy with glee!”
Hyperpotamus is a London-based multi-vocal solo artist from Madrid, Spain.
He makes music using only his voice, a few microphones and a loop pedal. After 10 years of playing in bands as a drummer and pianist H grew weary of the whole scene, ditched the eternal cycle of dragging drums from one unsavoury dive to another, and went solo, big time.
Rehearsing his new act in the underground tunnels of Madrid’s metro stations, H confounded un- suspecting passers-by. Before long he was opening at more conventional venues for local bands and the Hyperpota-buzz kicked off in Madrid and soon after, the whole country. Only 6 months after his first fling at busking H was playing in front of thousands of people all over Spain.
In April 2009 he self-released his astounding debut album ‘Largo Bailon’ and has barely had time to draw a breath since. Hyperpotamus has played on the banks of the Danube, under a staircase in Amsterdam, at a squat in Berlin, a macro-discotheque in Lisbon, a railway station in London, a cruise ship in the middle of the Mediterranean, a flower shop in Paris, a Soviet People’s Palace in Bratislava, a saloon in Texas, Ceacescu’s Palace in Bucharest, a civic centre in Tijuana, under an or- gan pipe in Belfast, surrounded by skyscrapers in Los Angeles, at a retirement home in Bilbao, in a cave in Andalusia and in New York’s oldest bar......as well as more conventional festivals, SXSW, NXNE, Primavera, The Big Chill, BAM, Wilsonic, Bratislava Jazz Days.....