The Utopia Strong @ The King Arthur, Glastonbury

Call it synchronicity, call it happenstance, call it no more than

three friends getting together to give their speakers a workout.

Yet The Utopia Strong’s formidable conflagration of

psychedelic radiance and beatific harmony has evolved way

beyond all or any expectations since the band’s inception..

‘International Treasure’ chronicles the collaborative collision

of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York heading into

unchartered psychic territory, seemingly with nothing but their

instincts as co-ordinates.

What’s resulted is a step beyond anything either band or

audience might have expected - a deeply rewarding voyage

into inner space which moves into darker and still more

evocative sound-worlds whilst remaining fundamentally off

the map. Influences know no bounds in this context, and the

listener would be forgiven for locating the atmospheres and

soundscapes of this album on some sonic promontory above

and between the potent abstractions of Tim Hecker, the

improvisatory excursions of The Necks, and the gothic allure

of Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore.

‘International Treasure’’ is the next chapter in a story which

only grows more rewarding with every stop along the way -

one in which three heads travel together deeper into their own

musical journeys, and the resulting alchemical power

transmutes its origins into gold. As no less a sage than

Andrew Weatherall proclaimed, The Utopia Strong are

“gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.

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