Prog

Maximum Break

”We know our music and know how the band works now, so [a second album] seemed perfectly reasonable and perfectly natural.”
Kavus Torabi

The Utopia Strong have come a long way since inadvertently forming four years ago. The most unlikely trio since the Holy Trinity didn’t even realise they were becoming a band when they descended on musician Michael J York’s home in Glastonbury in January 2018 for a modular synth jam. Crucially, the trio left a tape recorder running throughout their marathon 13-hour session, and on returning from an extended sojourn to the pub, discovered – much to their surprise – that it all sounded rather good.

Tentatively, a musical formation began to occur, though there was something odd about this group. Kavus Torabi and, and acquired an ironic epithet, interesting, which stuck. Steve ‘Interesting’ Davis is certainly having the last laugh.

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