Micachu & the Shapes

21 year old Mica Levi, AKA "Micachu and The Shapes", is one of the rare instances of an act brave enough to take pop music into entirely uncharted territory. A classically trained composer, Mica shows a genius for intelligent pop- mashing genres from grime to garage to dubstep into a brilliant and original sound.

Micachu is largely inspired by Harry Partch, who famously used an array of customised and home-made instruments, including a xylophone made of light bulbs, a 'Cloud Chamber' made out of pyrex dishes, and a series of highly complicated 44 stringed instruments. Similarly Micachu uses a modified guitar played with a hammer action called a 'chu' and a bowed instrument fashioned from a CD rack. She also uses improvised instruments, such as glass bottles or a vacuum cleaner.

Based in London and recently signed to Rough Trade Records, Micachu and The Shapes just released their debut "Jewellery" in March of this year. A brilliant Matthew Herbert produced amalgam of leftfield pop, the album harnesses a conflagration of ground breaking sounds and ideas and fuses them into 24 carat pop gold.

"one of the most unusual albums you will hear. It is a fearlessly experimental, effervescent record which blends the organic and the digital" TELEGRAPH

Web: http://www.myspace.com/micayomusic

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