Animal Hospital, The Monroe Transfer, Fuzzy Lights

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Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom! Present

Animal Hospital
The Monroe Transfer
Fuzzy Lights

DJ Toby Woby

ANIMAL HOSPITAL
www.myspace.com/animalhospital

Animal Hospital is Kevin Micka's one-man musical recording/performance entity. He has consistently toured the United States and completed 2 European tours throughout France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Iceland. Within the last 4 years Micka has continued writing and releasing several additional tracks on various compilations around the world. Animal Hospital has won followers from all corners of the music world, earning himself spots on tours with bands as diverse as Beirut, Neptune, and the tech-grind metal group The Great Redneck Hope (not to mention a recurring role as bumper music on Boston's NPR station).

During performances, Micka buries himself in a pile of electronics-shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay units-while patiently constructing a layered nest of loops consisting of live drum beats, guitar chords, scrapes, chucks, chimes, and melodies resulting in anything from more conventional songs to meticulously crafted ambient movements on to full on improvisation.

“listening to Animal Hospital reminds me of watching Andy Goldsworthy build his nature-based art pieces in the excellent film about his work, Rivers and Tides.
Tonally, Micka's knack for organically combining electronics and acoustics, while always staying attentive to rhythm, puts his latest album, Memory, in the realm of artists like the Books, Tortoise, and some of the Kranky roster.” – Pitchfork

THE MONROE TRANSFER
www.themonroetransfer.com

The Monroe Transfer are a 7-piece group, making beautifully detailed and passionately executed instrumental music on a variety of instruments.

The band are due to release a full length album entitled Trials in January 2010 on Organ Grinder Records:

"At their most beautiful they’re able to lightly brush the places that so few other instrumental acts can...it’s exciting when a band that features not a single singer is able to take you away to someplace other than the here and now on fabulous waves of orchestral sound. The Monroe Transfer, at their most beautiful, are that band." - Drowned in Sound

FUZZY LIGHTS
http://www.fuzzylights.com

Initially formed as a two-piece in 2004, Fuzzy Lights create haunted, visceral music that pulls and tugs at its moorings. As well as touring the UK as guests of Young God Records’ Mi & L’au, they have shared the stage with Jack Rose, Vetiver and MV&EE amongst others. Hard to pigeonhole, as they combine both folk purity and psychedelic noise with echoes of more traditional blues/Americana, their reverb-soaked, semi-improvised music is now collected on their debut album ‘A Distant Voice’.

"...just perfect for deliciously gloomy days when you want the atmosphere to be reflectively beautiful." Plan B

"A Distant Voice is dense music that pulls at tiny crevices in your soul, slowly unfolding before you." Line of Best Fit