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The Utopia Strong are a semi-modular trio, delivering medical grade music to the visionary music fan.
Formed in 2018, band members Kavus Torabi, Michael York and Steve Davis fuse Modular Synthesisers with conventional and traditional instruments to create a weird and joyous celebration of all that is good about left field music.
The bands self titled debut album released in 2019 received critical acclaim and made the band an instant live sensation. New album ?International Treasure? due to be released by Rocket Recordings on June 10th chronicles the collaborative collision of members Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York heading into unchartered psychic territory, seemingly with nothing but their instincts as co-ordinates.
Kavus Torabi is an experimental/psychedelic musician with a long history in the field. He has his own band, Knifeworld and is frontman in the current line up of Gong. He has been a member in various other bands including Guapo and most notably a guitarist in the final line up of Cardiacs.
He runs the boutique record label, Believers Roast, has collaborated with a wide range of left-field artists and co-presents a show on NTS Radio with Steve Davis, a show championing new, experimental, avant-garde, far out, underground, electronic, pop, folk, psych, rock and classical music. Kavus and Steve?s book ?Medical Grade Music? published last year made many ?best of? end of year lists.
Steve Davis was the most successful professional Snooker player of the 1980?s, winning a total of 28 major ranking events including 6 World Championships. In recent years his involvement in snooker has been limited to TV punditry, which has given him more time to indulge in music related activities, namely collecting left field music from around the globe, presenting a monthly radio show on NTS Radio with Kavus Torabi and now joining forces with Kavus and Michael York to form The Utopia Strong, further cementing his growing interest in playing the Modular Synth.
Michael York is a multi instrumentalist and luthier, working mainly with modular/analogue synths and woodwinds (primarily focusing on bagpipes, reeds and flutes of Europe and the Near East).
His piping has seen him work not only in the realm of folk, with the likes of Shirley Collins and the 7 piece bagpipe choir Zephyrus, but also with the esoteric avant garde ensembles Coil, Cyclobe, Current 93, Guapo and The Stargazers Assistant.
Support on this show will be a solo set from experimental post punks Abrasive Trees and a suitable psychedelic DJ set from extrastereo.
Units 3-4 Shinners Bridge, Webbers Way,
Darlington,
Devon,
England,
TQ9 6JY.
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