Perico and the Paper Cinema

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PERICO write and perform music that has people flummoxed as to how to describe them.something like a collision between jerky alt-rock and woozy folk-inflected bar-room music, with an array of instrumentation to put most bands to shame. Often, live projected animation from the PAPER CINEMA adds a surreal and original visual dimension to every show.
Recently, Perico and the Paper Cinema have played at the Latitudeand Big Chill Festivals and a number of key London venues: Battersea Arts Centre, Cargo, 93 Feet East (Rock 'n' Roll Cinema), SE1 Club, and recently FABRIC as part of Future Cinema's METROPOLIS themed End of Tour Extravaganza confirming them as one of the most original live acts around, musically and visually.



"On their second album, "Toy Swords and Kalashnikovs", Perico continue
to merge the childlike with the macabre. There are drums, sometimes
shuffling, sometimes hurtling towards us from the audio middle
distance. there are cornets and trumpets flying around somewhere just
over our heads, sounding like grizzled ghosts who've drunk themselves
into the ether around about the turn of the 19th century. There are
dulcimers, spindly and isolated, and yet radiating a kind of detached
wonder. And there are stories in miniature, as songs always should be,
relayed to us via vocalist Mathew Cameron, of errant soldiers and lost children, of dissipated lovers and decimated fathers, of nights of the town and
mornings on the edge. Something akin to hearing a novel jump from the page and spring to life. Something else in the DNA of this album seems to emanate more form the Eastern Bloc than the hispanic inflections of their debut. But this album, unlike so many of its new folk contempoararies, doesn't outstay its welcome, closing
with the imperious drawl of "Lo", an eight minute carousel whose instruments chart a seemingly never ending ascent. It's a pretty special album."
Joseph Malborn, Noise Makes Enemies Magazine
"Toy Swords and Kalashnikovs" is now available for purchase online at :
www.cdbaby.com/pericouk
itunes



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