uh - hit (Live at Tentacle Studios)

uh are brother-sister duo Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy and they announce their debut album 'humanus' with a live brand new track 'hit': http://ffm.to/uhhit As an extension of releasing ‘hit’ - uh unveil a live performance of the single, filmed at Tentacle Studios, Dalston. This dynamic performance acts as a sonic traversal through their live practice. It’s calamitously chaotic, but with some restraint; fun and foggy, inevitably neglecting its original form. Shot in multi-cam and live vision-mixed in response to the performance, uh have re-processed images of themselves and of personal footage collected over the years. ‘uh’ is one of the most common sounds heard in the English language. An imitative that holds no linguistic meaning, it’s nevertheless a sound recognised by everyone; it could be a hesitation or an exclamation of distrust. For sibling duo Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy, it’s this ambiguity of the term that draws them to it. uh’s music represents a restless blurring of pastoral and urban. The brother-sister duo of Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy’s debut album humanus is embedded in the London that they grew up in – it searches for the space and still that was a hallmark of their previous EP Seasick in Salts, but many of the tracks here are more skittish, urgent and beat-driven. It’s a record that hurtles into the expanse of its surroundings rather than carefully probing them. Recorded at PRAH Studios in Margate in a live take, with Fionnuala on super delayed vocals and Dominic on synths and drums, ‘hit’ finds the ultimate energy behind their hardware. It’s an expression of Fionnuala and Dominic’s exchange of heightened states through sonic play, following what pleases them. “This is a dub infused post punk cyber novelette. A sleazy-noire breakbeat piece of pulp fiction following an imagined protagonist driving us though dirty streets in search of her hit.” they say. With special thanks to Jack Barraclough, Jack Taylor & Toby Bourroughs. A Tentacle Fims Ltd Production Lighting and Camera Operator - Jack Taylor Camera Operator - Barry McDonald Sound Engineer and Mixing - Toby Burroughs (Rumbaba Studios) Editor - Jack Barraclough Graphics - Dominic Kennedy http://ffm.to/uhhit   / uhlive     / uhlivve   http://vevo.ly/MRA2zX