Micachu
Micachu - Golden Phone
Artist: Micachu
Hails From: London, England
Musical Style: Indie electronic, Alternative pop, Experimental
For Fans of: Bjork, M.I.A. St. Vincent
Why you should check them out:
Micachu and the Shapes prove that experimental music can be a blast. The band pulls from a grab bag of sounds and samples, assembling ear candy in the form of electronic pop tunes. Barely into their twenties, this group is just getting started.
Background check:
A first listen to Micachu’s music is like stepping through a doorway and directly into a sonic funhouse filled with all sorts of disorienting bells and whistles. Steeped in classical musical education, Micachu-the nom de rock of Brittish singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mica Levi-veers a little off the rails in her current project, crafting bizarro but catching hooks and subtle melodies over messy beats and found sounds.
Micachu’s recently released debut album, Jewellery, was recorded by the esteemed Matthew Herbert, who brought a wealth of his own fresh ideas to the process. The production team takes a kitchen sink approach to the songs to great effect, coupling fuzzed-out bass and keyboards with non-traditional instruments like a vacuum cleaner and a kiss as percussion fill. Michachu is also known to build her own homemade instruments, including a modified guitar called a “chu” and a bowed instrument created out of a CD rack.
Live, Levi is joined onstage by The Shapes: Raisa Kahn on keyboards and Marc Pell on drums.
Fun Fact: As a composition student at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Levi was commissioned to create an orchestral piece for the London Philharmonic. The orchestra performed the piece at the Royal Festival Hall in 2008
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