Konk Pack
Sunday 26th February
Tim Hodgkinson (GB): lap steel guitar, electronics, clarinets
Thomas Lehn (D): analogue synthesizer
Roger Turner (GB): drumsets and percussion
Grob label artists Konk Pack are utterly awesome. Featuring Thomas Lehn on the craziest old EMS synthi A, Tim Hodgkinson on flat guitar and Roger Turner on percussion, the show is awkwardly brilliant and defiant. With startling combinations of punkish nuisance, ingenious change-ups, and rolling, stumbling, tripping and flipping sound inventions, Konk Pack are one of the most exciting Improv groups in the world.
Lee Henderson reviewing Vancouver Electric City in The Wire, Dec 2003
Hull Art Lab is excited to present the return of the excellent Konk Pack to Hull. A trio of performers that has been playing together since 1997 when they met at a festival in Budapest and since then have performed extensively and released three CDs (1999, Big Deep
2001, Warp Out
2004, Off Leash
) on the GROB Label. www.grobcologne.de
As for pure total improvisation, the verdict on german-english trio Konk Pack was unanimous. Even listeners unreceptive to improvised noise (bending frequencies and sound-textures via an analog synth, manipulation of a guitar on a table, free percussion, etc) were won over by these subtle sonorities superbly segued, magnificent interplay.
Alain Brunet, La Presse, Montreal, 23 May 2000
For lovers of contemporary improv-musics, this concert is a must – a unique group in a unique space.