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review by Mike Bond

KAP BAMBINO - NEW BREATH / HEY!

"Wilfully wired, weird and energised, NEW BREATH / HEY! sees Kap Bambino erupting as an elektro pop duo that merge melody and madness."

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New Breath / Hey!
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French elektro pop duo Kap Bambino are an energetic outfit whose short, sharp blasts of spirited disco punk sound like the results of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Bis wrestling over the controls of a battered ZX81.
New single NEW BREATH / HEY! finds Kap Bambino in suitably energised and excited mood, NEW BREATH in particular sounding like a caffeined up two year old just given his first Casio keyboard.  A two minute jolt of jerky elektro pop weirdness that begins sounding like the Clangers on acid and ends in an eruption of Caroline Martial's chanted vocal yelps and various blips, bleeps and beats.  The poppier sounding HEY! is a song that centres on Martial's candy pop vocals, propulsive bass throbs and high pitched techno stabs.
Wilfully wired, weird and energised, NEW BREATH / HEY! sees Kap Bambino erupting as an elektro pop duo that merge melody and madness.

BIOGRAPHY
Following the famous "neutral ep" Kap Bambino comes back with 12 new songs on a cd called, "zero life,night vision". result from distortion beat and bass ,and the shouts by khima France. It is also very speedy.
one can find love songs,hatred songs and hatred of hatred songs.  We can always find devastating,direct and completely impulsive spirit of Kap Bambino !! maucassins and spangles for this discopunk traumatized. 
Born in October 2001, as well as their own label WWILKO, KAP BAMBINO (the French Orion Bouvier and Caroline Martial) plays an effective and energetic contemporary electronic music.  Based on incisive rythms, intoxicating riffs and dyslexic lyrics, this music defies classification.  Out of control, it is sometimes pop and melancholic, sometimes skinned-raw, but always agressive.  They try to exist in the fringe of the actual French musical movement, like some no-futur bastards, totally devoted to non-stop amazing performance.  They can perform all their live shows as if they play with their own lives. 
On stage, the KAP BAMBINO impressive turmoil has an identity of its own - playful, wild and without compromising.  This project thus is a really outlet that allows them to express together all their energy and delirium, beside their respective side-projects:
GROUPGRIS and KHIMA FRANCE.  From the beginning, thanks to a solid live experience garnered from Europe to north America, they have already played with :
MAGAS,COBRA KILLER, TRANSFORMER DI ROBOTER,SCORN,COIL, ELECTRONICAT,DAT POLITICS, AUTOMAT,GANGPOL UND MIT, CANDIE HANK,FEADZ,DDAMAGE THESE NEW PURITANS,THE VIOLET...

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Orion Bouvier
Caroline Martial

DISCOGRAPHY
NEW BREATH / HEY! (Alt<Delete Recordings>2007)
New Breath
Hey!

LINKS

FURTHER LISTENING
Bis
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Klaxons

 

Review date: June 2007