There's More of Us Than There Are of You are a battle between the incredibly clever and the very stupid.
Formed out of a psychotropically enhanced conversation between Tom Goldsmith (Circulus) and Adam Richens (ex. High as Flames). An experiment aimed to blur the distinction between musician and non-musician, between performer and audience. In practical terms the experiment consisted of a large room containing everyone they could find willing to wield an instrument. The results were terrifying.
But puke over the walls and some will inevitably stick. And the most enthusiastic participants kept jamming. The sound made by the remaining eight members is less of an experiment, perhaps, but now worth listening to. Pretension steps aside and makes way for a tune.
So far, four gigs into their career, the sound the band generates is causing equal excitement among the band and their audience. The line-up currently consists of two guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, violin, viola and glockenspiel as well as occasional vocals.
The band use equal measures of improvisation and careful calculation to achieve an organic, lo-fi prog/kraut/afro/jazz-rock hybrid. They hope audiences will dance, and consider them in "jazz" terms to be the best non-jazz band in London right now.
Currently recording at Hugo Danino's speaker palace on a large format analogue tape machine blessed by none other than God himself.
