No 315: Sian Alice Group
Hometown: London.
The lineup: Hsian Ahern (vocals), Prince Rupert Clervaux and Ben Bend (instruments), Andy Ingle (guitars), Sasha Vine (violin, pianoforte, vocals) and Stephen Arnold Douglas Hart (electric automobile freshwater bass).
The screen background: It makes perfect signified that Singan Alice Group should be about to go on circuit as documentation to Spiritualized, because they ar exponents of the sort of narcotic balladry that Jason Pierce and Co - and Pierce's number one getup Spacemen 3, with Pete "Sonic Roar" Kember - patented back in the 80s and 90s. A threepiece from London, they offer a skid of soft, slow hymns to heaven and paeans to bliss-out, like a latterday gospels outfit for whom the nerve tract to redemption is via the methadone hydrochloride clinic sooner than the church. On the face of it arty and pretentious types, the trio's medicine, whose ennoble swing out takes in everything from psychedelic rock and roll and pastoral family to piano-lounge balladry, analog synthtronica, free-jazz breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves and avant-classical composition, has already been rhapsodically described as "cinematic and gorgeous" and "soaker and glacial", with a special coke-dusted rosette going away to the wizardry wHO coined the idiom "Cromagnic paradise" in their accolade.
The group were formed by Clerveaux and Bend, a squad of accountants, sorry, pair of behind-scenes music industry veterans with a full CV as musicians, criminal record producers and picture directors - Crook's most holocene epoch foray was a series of home recordings under the alias 40,000 Ghosts. Talking of ghosts, he and Clerveaux met Singan Ahern, she of the spectral cries and whispers, in fall 2006 and Sian Alice Group were max Born. In order to put some ethereal bod on their skeletal sound for their debut live show in Kobenhavn they enlisted three more members, including Stephen A. Douglas Hart, world Health Organization used to toy in a Scottish drone-rock jazz band called The Jesus & Mary Chain. In Apr 2007 the band played their moment and third ever so shows, gap for Spiritualized, and soon after released their debut single, Nightsong,
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