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Micachu & The Shapes NPR Session 20 September 2012 in Micachu
Watch what happened when Mica, Raisa and Marc went down to the woods in Washington D.C with NPR:
Micachu & the Shapes 'NEVER': The Videos 24 July 2012 in Micachu
Micachu & the Shapes have been beavering away over the past few months in their east London studio making music videos for EVERY track on their new album ‘NEVER’ (out now worldwide). Prepare to have your mind well and truly boggled…
‘Easy’
‘Never’
‘Waste’
‘Slick’
‘OK’
‘Low Dogg’
‘Holiday’
‘Heaven’
‘You Know’
‘Glamour’
‘Top Floor’
‘Fall’
‘Meal’
‘Nothing’
‘Nowhere’
Micachu & The Shapes' New Album 'NEVER' Out Today 23 July 2012 in Micachu
Micachu & the Shapes’ new album ‘NEVER’ is out in the UK/Europe today (US tomorrow)!
The album is available to buy from all good record stores as well as online:
iTunes buy link
Amazon buy link
Rough Trade Records buy link
‘Demented but catchy… Each listen is as fresh as the first’ – 8/10 – NME
‘MIA’s younger, grungier sister’ – 4/5 – The Financial Times
‘Vital and fresh’ – 4/5 – The Guardian
Biography
The group’s 25-year-old founder and front woman Mica Levi was classically trained at the Purcell School, after which she won a scholarship to study composition at the Guildhall School of Music. During her time at the latter she released her first mixtape ‘Filthy Friends’ with producers and MC’s including Toddla T, Ghostpoet and Man Like Me. In 2009 she slow-rhymed on Speech Debelle’s track ‘Better Days’ and produced songs on Del’s debut album ‘GOB’. It was at Guildhall that she met ‘the Shapes’ Raisa Khan and Marc Pell and, largely on a laptop in Mica’s bedroom, they made their critically acclaimed debut album ‘Jewellery’ (2009). Since then, in addition to creating ‘NEVER’ the group have been extremely prolific: Last year using unorthodox, handmade instruments they collaborated with The London Sinfonietta – one of the world’s leading contemporary orchestras – to release the album ‘Chopped & Screwed’, recorded live in front of an audience at King’s Place. Earlier this year Micachu and DJ/producer Kwes then released the second volume of their collaborative mixtape series ‘Kwesachu’ which featured artists such as Ghostpoet, Speech Debelle and Dels (volume one was released in 2009 and featured The xx, Hot Chip and Metronomy). Micachu is currently an artist in residence at London’s Southbank Centre, the youngest individual musician to have ever been granted this unique role.
http://www.myspace.com/micayomusic
