We here at Echoes & Dust are very proud to announce that we are putting forwards three of our favourite unsigned bands to take part in Symbiosis.

Symbiosis have asked their favourite passionate proponents of new music to nominate their top up and coming bands, with the criteria that they must be unsigned and have never recorded in a professional studio. They will be showcasing these bands at a series of live events between March – June at the Urban Bar in Whitechapel. The top act from each night will play together at a final in July, with the overall winner being offered free mixing and mastering at Cafe Music Studios, free PR from CogDiss and a slot at Supernormal Festival in August.

The competition will be judged by CogDiss, Cafe Music and Supernormal alongside The Blue Walrus, Chaos Theory, A Negative Narrative, Sourmash, The Whiteboard Project, and us, who have all nominated bands. Throughout the competition they will be posting music by and information about their choices, giving you a chance to discover their favourite up and coming artists.

The bands we have nominated are:

Tribal Fighters
Three Colours
Pepper & Shepherd

Follow their fortunes here or over on our Twitter

The first heat is on March 24 and features:

Itchy Teeth (Sourmash)
Itchy Teeth are Xav, Charlie, Oli and Jon. The four piece who are from London, make summery 60s influenced dreamy pop. Real classic British sounds with catchy tunes with a retro edge.
It’s sort of like metal, except metal kind of failed to make a sound that made you feel like your skin was being peeled away by pointy cockroaches (at least since black metal, circa ’95). They’re definitely a duo, it may well be improvised and it sure as shit sounds improbably like a post-fatal bus accident Sun Ra in a mood to break kittens.
Macchina Del Tempo (Chaos Theory)
An instrumental three piece band that rates music millions and millions of times more than money and fame, plays with no interruptions riff after riff, indulges in the instruments potential to the point of semi-permanent pain, explores its own mental theoretic skills for volatile and unpredictable compositions and loves the sound of Rock, Prog Rock and Jazz/Rock Fusion of the late 60s-early 70

More details at the Facebook page.

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