KMAT is a collective of music improvisers formed in 2009 by sheer accident in a warehouse in Kings Cross, London. They perform without regard to prevailing style or fashion in the spirit of Bunk Johnson, Buddy Bolden, Albert Ayler, George Lewis (the elder), John Stevens and the Situationist International. KMAT is the human response of a disparate group of people to our times. MacKeachan still believes that beneath the city streets there are fields, moors and beaches, Shearsmith drives his Volvo 131 Amazon mainly up the north bank of Thames, Doran unwinds analogue or digital events, Matsui stays out of tune and Bruno busies himself concatenating the matrix. Soundscapes are contracted and dilated by the use of a double bass with occasionally attached radios, one and only pocket trumpet, a trombone, a vintage Hohner melodica, an electric guitar, a clarinet, electronics, keyboards, pedals and voice. |
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