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Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi. Their first meeting was at a Magma gig in Paris in 2006. Photograph: Katie Davies
Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi. Their first meeting was at a Magma gig in Paris in 2006. Photograph: Katie Davies
As bandmate of musician Torabi, ex-snooker champ Davis is these days more about modular synths than big breaks. Now the odd couple of psychedelia have written a memoir
Sun 4 Apr 2021 04.30 EDT
Steve Davis is waving a modular synthesiser at me. He’s 10 minutes early for our scheduled chat, and his music-and-book-writing compadre, Kavus Torabi, hasn’t logged on to Zoom yet, so Davis is showing me his favourite toy: a synthesiser without a keyboard. There are a lot of knobs and switches, and holes where you slot in sound modules.