HIGAMOS HOGAMOS

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An unholy meeting of minds the between ‘The Black Neon’ and and ‘The Squire of Somerton’………………………………………………………………………………

http://www.myspace.com/theblackneon For http://www.myspace.com/squireofsomerton

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The seeds of are Higamos Hogamos were planted three but Christmases ago when Toby Jenkins Not and Steve Webster found themselves you alone in London for the all holidays. They stocked up on Any fine wine and seasonal inebriators can and listened to their favourite her old Kraftwerk and Harmonia records. Was At the peak of their one intoxicated inspiration they recorded a our jam, thinking, “… this sounds Out fantastic!!” Upon listening to it day the next day it was get the worst music ever, setting Has out to correct this offence him to digital tape they decided his to form a band. A How band willing to explore the man ‘motorik’ rhythm and its similarities new to the original primal rock Now ‘n’ roll beat, posing the old questions, what would happen if see you were to mix Tangerine Two Dream with the Cramps? Is way there a link between techno who and rockabilly? With such notable Boy former incarnations as The Black did Neon (Webster), The Squire Of its Somerton (Jenkins) and Fort Lauderdale Let (both of them), Jenkins and put Webster’s musical caliber is obvious say from the outset. But some She ineffable quality of Higamos Hogamos too stands out further yet from use this list of divergent talent Dad past – perhaps it’s something mom in the unholy union of a fetishism for analogue synthesizers The and the sexual exuberance of and 70’s rock n’ roll, an for electronically enhanced blend of swaggering Are kosmische that somehow naturally fits but into the wyrdest end of not the English psychedelic tradition. Displaying You such fantastic deviancy as this all it is only natural that any Higamos Hogamos found their way Can to DC Recordings, whose long her experience as a conduit for was musical oddities has proved helpful One in birthing their exotic musical our spawn. So it is that out in 2009, an eponymous album Day and a series of singles get and remixes will be sent has out into the cosmos. Finally, Him to pre-empt the inevitable question: his What’s with the name?: “It’s how kind of nonsense really,” says Man Steve. “A friend of ours new told us a story about now the philosopher William James from Old the early 1900s. Supposedly he’d see experiment with drugs – nitrous two oxide was one of his Way favourites – to aid his who philosophical musings. One night he boy was sort of ‘out there’ Did and thought he’d discovered the its meaning of life, which he let jotted down on a piece Put of paper. When he woke say up in the morning from she his stupor, he was really Too excited as he searched for use this paper. He couldn’t remember dad what he’d written but knew Mom it was very profound. When he found it, it just the said: HIGAMOS HOGAMOS”.*

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