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Transparent green vinyl. Mermaid Chunky are an audiovisual duo made up of artists Freya Tate and Moina Moin. Bathing in milkmaid serenity and improvised chaos, the duo boasts of pumping trance rhythms, sad Easter time chicks and seriously arousing sax solos. Much of their cultivation has come out of the mossy club culture of Stroud's SVA and London's Total Refreshment Centre, collaborating with the likes of Alabaster DePlume, Danalogue, Donna Thompson, Grove, Snapped Ankles, and Yama Warashi. Their debut Faith and Industry album Vest (produced by Capitol K at Total Refreshment Centre), was birthed last year out of a history of improvised cheek and club dexterity fore fronting their live shows and audiovisual solstice celebrations, recently captured by British Vogue's 2021 PRIDE series. Championing this action is the Mermaid Chunky Mothership, a gang of fellow artists and performers, often clad in nauseous satin frills, swamping the stage with French mime and slut drops (Roundhouse 2021, End Of the Road 2021, SVA Solstice always). The MC gang just scoured their PRS Woman Make Music funding so who knows what they will be stirring up in the heat of summer soup 2022 (the most ducks in a year you will ever experience). The only way for you to find out is to join the chunklett buffet and dip your wicked, webbed fingers into something mega.
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Working in rhyme, costume and film they play drum machine, Casio, voice, saxophone, and a plethora of found household objects and toys to create their own sound world. Not to be tricked by this naive playfulness, Mermaid Chunky are musicians versed in classical and jazz lineage. Formed around the exciting SVA (Stroud Valley Artspace) a west country community arts center and music venue, Mermaid Chunky's captivating performances came to be recorded and produced by Capitol K at Total Refreshment Centre, and thus here is Vest. Produced and recorded by the one and only Capitol K, who has recorded the likes of Thurston Moore, Flamingods, Snapped Ankles, Alabaster DePlume, The Comet is Coming, and Deerhunter. RIYL: Mica Levi, Tirzah, Laps, Ivor Cutler. Edition of 200. "Idiosyncratic blend of Afrobeat, rap, post punk and performance art -- totally unique and always a joy to behold." --Good On Paper
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