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Caros audiophiles, this week I wish to highlight one of my favourite contemporary "indie" bands, I Am Kloot.

From Manchester, they have enjoyed a cult following for some years without achieving, or perhaps not wanting to achieve, a wider popularity. 

They are friends and collaborators with their fellow Manchester band Elbow and I think deserve the same recognition that Elbow has recently experienced. 

The first song I ever heard, appropriately called Untitled #1, was on an acoustic mixed artist compilation, maybe 2 or 3 years ago, and I was curious to go hear them play in concert, in a small sweaty venue in East London. The place was packed tight like sardines, so intimate, so raw, and I sensed immediately an unusual rapport between band and audience, like a shared secret among friends. In fact I  felt a strange sense of deja vu, that I had met this band somewhere.This was the place to be, for the clever people, I felt like I had joined an exclusive club of cognoscenti.

Their songs are passionate, romantic in a slightly twisted way, but don't easily fit into any category for the mainstream. To borrow a comment I heard somewhere about the charismatic lead singer, he is not afraid of sentiment and so is quite unsentimental.
My favourite song is Ferris Wheels, (unfortunately the video misses the final few seconds), but there are many so that I include also 2 other songs which also have interesting videos, Proof and Over My Shoulder. 

Ferris Wheels:
I don't know who i am,
I don't know who you are,
but when i touch your hand
i see shooting stars
i see ferris wheels
curving walls of steel
and light.
 
A long distance call
over twisted wires,
some lost heart-felt words
caught up on the line.
We speak through satellites
that hang like the stars at night
in the sky.

I hope you enjoy.
A proxima,

po