Constantly interchanging instruments, their sound combines a range of varied influences, with elements of Town and Country, Jim O' Rourke and Tortoise. Soaring and uplifting with joyous gusto, limn excite with every tune!
There is a number of artists known as "George" ...the 3 most notable are: 1) An Australian group, with sibling members, Katie Noonan & Tyrone Noonan - both classically-trained musician / vocalists. They have released two albums, the first of which was the multi-platinum, ARIA-award-winning album, Polyserena, and eight EPs / singles. 2) A Manchester, UK duo of Suzy Mangion & Michael Varty. Both of them play the instruments no one else wants - old keyboards and organs, Christmas presents from the Eighties, from charity shops, corners at parties.
From the farthest reaches of our solar system, Man From Uranus (also known as MFU) descended upon our more moderately tempered blue planet. Drawn to Earth by picked-up transmissions from early television and its weird electronic soundtracks, he put up his Moonbase in Cambridgeshire to produce his own unearthly ‘mixture of warbly immersive sounds, like a psychedelic trip in some strange soundtracked diving bell’ (Drowned in Sound).
Shimmy Rivers and and Canal formed in a rush with five people, none of whom are still members or are in fact known to any of the current line up. Shimmy Rivers and and Canal started in error and continued thereafter. As the unformed band disbanded further, a drunken barmaid put a CD in the post which had nothing to do with Shimmy Rivers and and Canal, but for some reason had their name on it. Ed Baxter, head of Resonance FM took to the sound of that CD like a duck to whatever, and spectacularly asked to release it, just so he could hand out copies to anyone he liked.