angkorwat

Bio:

niamh . wat @ gmail . com



"Mysterious, cigarette-smoke skeletons of songs shake hands with eerie banshee keening - Corcoran creates a Bateau Ivre of sound, slowly sinking and marvelling towards the abyss (...) [angkorwat] stands, or sits cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by computers, cables and synths. Behind her, flickering images lick at a projector. Senses swirl in and out of the room, while synth loops wrap themselves around necks and hearts." - NME

"All eerily-filtered vocals and menacing synth melodies, the overall effect of her music is an unsettling, keep-watching-over-you-shoulders sensation you mightn't shake for days afterwards. Already earning the deserved attention of Wire magazine and producing her debut album with David Kitt, Angkorwat has more potential than you've had Monday morning headaches." - TotallyDublin

"Spookily hypnotic electronica, with vocals, that all threatens to dissolve wonderfully in front of you like a Solpadeine in a glass of icy water." - AU magazine

"...vaguely nauseating..." - Connected.ie

"short, simple compositions bursting their seams with trapped energy and characterised by a certain ghostly, something-wrong feeling." -Those Geese Were Stupefied

"smudged expressionist electronica that walks a tightrope between euphoria and worry." -Asleep On The Compost Heap

"... electronic music that borders on the experimental but still bear the path of a tune within their structures. Moody and evocative, beautiful and brooding, her music challenges your perception of what you expect to hear next. Some describe it as threatening but I actually find her tunes, created largely with the help of Garageband software for the Mac, quite human, cuddly and soothing. Maybe it is me who has a problem ;-) I liked ‘Ciccone Snap’ which seemed to morph Rick Wakeman keyboards with a beat boxy Black Eyed Peas beat and ‘Gatecrasher’ which sort of reminded me of Bjork at her most trancy. The track of hers I liked the most though was the atmospheric, emotive ‘be good 09’. My final verdict is as any Dubliner would say….Grand!" - Paul Nixon




- academy2 w/ patrick kelleher, jun 18 2009
- seomra spraoi w/ alice stands, aug 5 2009
- whelan's w/ deerhunter, aug 23 2009
- twisted pepper w/ nite jewel, sept 10 2009
- thomas house w/ teengirl fantasy, sept 26 2009
- sugar club w/somadrone + patrick kelleher, oct 2 2009
- joy gallery w/hunter-gatherer, nov 6 2009
- whelan's w/xiu xiu, feb 20 2010
- vicar st w/panda bear + kurt vile, march 9 2010

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Member Since:

November 15, 2008

Members:

niamh.

Influences:

"Was it Beckett or somebody who said that the worst thing to happen to music was words? That kinda makes sense to me, but I think we find ourselves in the situation where it's part and parcel of creating music, to have to use words.. at least to me if you synthesise what's happening there, it comes down to one line... my brother calls it the mantra in my songs... One sentence. I definitely prefer that to this kind of quasi-surrealist poetry, I very much resist the idea that anything in popular music can be equated with the experiments of poetry. Bob Dylan is not as great a poet as Gerard Manly Hopkins. But he is the best at whatever it is he's doing, which is not poetry. I really resist this style of play-acting - I'm not trying to say that there's such a thing as sincerity or authenticity, but I do think there is such a thing as fools play-acting."
John Maus, 2008

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