The KVB Hands (at Room 205)
While on a recent tour of the Western United States, Londonbased The KVB moved heaven and earth to make this wonderfully meditative 3part episode possible. Working with awardwinning documentary filmmaker Alix Lambert (The Mark of Cain), cinematographer Conor Simpson, engineer Griffin Rodriguez and editor Forrest Borie, the episode employs a simple set of colored gels, soft shadows, playful synth melodies, one cranky drum machine, one enormously loud Jazzmaster, and two unflinching performers. Welcome to the bracingly Zenlike innerworld of The KVB. BIO The KVB is the prolific A, V outlet of artists Nicholas Wood and Kat Day. Combining gothtinged, abstract imagery with a love of shoegaze guitars, minimal synths, reverbdrenched vocals and rigid beats, Nicholas initially started The KVB as a solo project. After frequent collaborations throughout 2011, Kat Day joined permanently on synths and visuals. Fast on the heels of several EPs and limitededition cassettes, 2012 saw the release of the band
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