a.P.A.t.T.

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The a.P.A.t.T. of today take a skilled yet cheeky approach to playing progressive pop that owes as much to Kurt Schwitters and the Chapman Brothers as it does to ABBA and Zappa. In touring new album Fun With Music, a.P.A.t.T. have condensed their vision-quest into 45 minutes of hooky, style-busting live band material, evading capture at every turn. This is the band that swaps instruments live mid-track and has even run its own small country for an evening: it's a restless and relentless take on 21st century music and performance through a lens of knowing, winking, quintessentially British humour.

Tom O.C Wilson, formerly known as Freeze Puppy, is a composer and performer driven by the desire to create music that doesn't exist but should. The results are tuneful and unpredictable in equal measure, drawing upon the classic pop songwriting tradition (Lennon and McCartney, Brian Wilson / Van Dyke Parks), the exuberance of contemporary jazz (Denys Baptiste, John Hollenbeck) and the radical experimentalism of modern classical composition (Harry Partch, Gyorgy Ligeti).

n existence for years and years, 4tRECk / Sam Callow makes music based around spontaeneous improvisation, chance, using instruments (piano, guitar, violin, accordion, home-made stringed instruments, percussion, voice..) the "wrong" way, ideas, and detailed composition-The results are broad, with a melancholic side.

The USSB of Hamburg-based Some Of My Best Friends is a Unit of Science, Socialism and Booty. Some Of My Best Friends use tunes and words. Some Of My Best Friends don't approve of unnecessary effort. Some Of My Best Friends never travel with more than one case. Think psycho dub, garage soul, trap, and Karl Marx's booty in sequin overalls.