Born in Panama and raised in Texas, Matthew Herbert first encountered Micah when he saw "a 6ft black man dry-humping a speaker-stack at the Triptych Festival in Scotland", and from there the prolific Gaugh (who has also written novels, an opera, appeared in Sex and The City and exhibited art worldwide) set about distilling his rich tapestry of influences into a coherent aural document.
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Jun 27 2006
View or add your commentsMicah - debut solo album out 3rd july
“Everything” - the debut album produced by Brazilian legend Arto Lindsay and harnessing the creative juices of Micah Gaugh, a Panamanian-born, Texas bred musical genius - channels Tricky, Prince and Cocteau Twins into some utterly original avant-garde R’n’B musical soundscapes. Stark pop songs abound, where Micah’s soulful vocals are spun with electronic sugar and stripped back reggae b-lines, and sweet melodies are undershot with background menace.
The spark that lit “Everything” into a fully-fledged album was Accidental Records boss Matthew Herbert, who met Gaugh while the latter was dry-humping a speaker-stack at the Triptych Festival in Scotland. Herbert was wowed and Micah decided to offer up some of his more accessible tunes – “my avant-pop moments”. As such opening track ‘Constant’ has a gentle, childlike warmth that punctuates the entire album, layers of rich keys and saxophone building and weaving in and out of the half spoken, half sung storytelling. It’s an absorbingly spooky trip where nothing is beyond possibility, and like Matthew Herbert notes; “It’s nice to see that whilst the commercial success of modern black music seems to increasingly polish out the soul and iron out the ticks, there’s 6ft men in kilts out there ready to push a few buttons and see what happens.”
Soon to be available on CD from the Accidental Shop and all good music shops, as well as MP3 download.
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Jun 15 2006
View or add your commentsMicah - 1st single out monday 19th june
The first time Micah Gaugh attempted to programme a beat he was four years old. Except back then, he didn’t want to make tunes, just motorcycle noises. By the age of nine his saxophone teacher Allison Tucker had decided she needed to include him in her biography. It’s a pretty typical anecdote from Micah, a Panama-born, Texas-bred crazy genius who has squeezed the grand sweep of opera, the brevity of pop and the wiggle of the avant-garde into a chunky R&B hotpot. In a kilt…
‘Revelation’ is Micah’s worldly outlook incarnate; a tender love song with dark undertones – more ‘don’t leave me’ than ‘I love you’ but that merely adds to the track’s delicate beauty. It is fittingly remixed by last year’s undisputed don of off the wall soul Jamie Lidell, who’s atmospheric reconstruction revolves around some intricate beatboxing and added layers of vocal harmonies. ‘Stewardess’ provides the brand new B Side with a clattering industrial strength remix from label boss Matthew Herbert.
Out on 12” (Available from all good independent record shops and from the accidental shop)
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Dec 20 2005
View or add your commentsMICAH LIMITED 10”
This 4 track 10” includes the eagerly anticipated ‘Revelation’, as heard on the Gilles Peterson show.
‘Revelation’ sees Micah charting the breakdown of a relationship in tender and affecting tones. ‘Buy it now from the Accidental sho