"Close to the Edge of the Middle of the Road"


I Am The Mighty Jungulator (the band Private Eye magazine called 'immortal', although it's possible they meant 'immoral') extends the parameters of what you can do with live sample processing using the generative potency of our audio engine, which is also called I Am The Mighty Jungulator, or IATMJ for short, and has been described as 'the sonic philosophers stone' by Future Music magazine.

After 15 years of heavy programming and a lot of sobbing, sulking and shouting, IATMJ finally does what it says on the tin and delivers that rare electro-acoustic-interplay-of-analogue-digital-with-zero-latency that we were always promising; the interplay of fingers, strings and wood, all captured, carved and shaped into glistening electronic textures (like kaleidoscopic ice sculptures glistening in the race memory of our mesozoic minds).

Within this responsive, improvised continuum thingy, the band (if you can call it a band) are free to steer the music in any number of structured or random directions (like riding a drugged bull across a building site), whilst the jungulator keeps everything in tune and in time. The only problem being that the music evolves faster than we can record it (its like that cake the womens institute make that keeps growing in your fridge).

The phenomenal live-sampling power was unveiled at Joanna McGregors' re-vamped Bath International Music Festival on 2nd June 2006, since when we've been jigging and gigging around and about, doing a few re-scores here, a handful of festivals there, little boutiquey tings over yonder......and LOTS of recording.


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