Chi è a Londra venerdì prossimo faccia un salto a Brixton e non si perda la nuova edizione di "Club Integral", con protagonisti stavolta Kenny Process Team, Geoff Leigh e Laboratoires Murphy. Questi ultimi altri non sono che la più recente manifestazione del fenomeno Murphy, colto a più riprese - con nome ogni volta un po' diverso e spesso anche in incognito a fianco di Bing Selfish e Frank Chickens - nelle pieghe più divertenti, illuminate e devianti della canzone quasi-pop britannica degli anni ottanta-novanta.
Founded in the dark ages of the eighties, the Murphy Foundation has since materialised in many formations and a multitude of styles, whilst never straying far from that most basic tool of communication: the pop song. Comic and poetic, with a diversity that makes them difficult to categorise, Laboratoires Murphy are one outcome of the realisation that 'we can do anything'.
'truly eccentric and absolutely out of step with any known fashion, past or present, though obliquely familiar to many of them' [Chris Cutler]
'runs against the grain…and yet reiterates the possibilities of communication that the pop song embodies: music that speaks of a locale, we might even say (unfashionably) a community. Laboratoires Murphy provide useful ammunition for those whose faith in the marginal and the progressive is not entirely spent' [Wire Magazine]
Selected discography: 'Metamurphosis' CD; Frankincense' CD; 'Bogtrotting' CD; 'Smut' CD; 'Miners of Banal' CD
Friday 9th February 2007
Club Integral, 8:30 - 2:00 AM
Canterbury Arms, Canterbury Crescent, Brixton, London SW2
(just two minutes from Brixton Tube)
