C = Drums
O = Guitar and Noise
J = Guitar and Vocals
Influences
Don Delillo, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Mark Danielewski, Bret Easton Ellis, Dennis Cooper, Lynne Tillman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Herman Melville, Andrea Dworkin, Georges Perec, Rebecca Solnit, Thomas Bernhard, Susan Sontag, Dalton Trumbo, Davis Grubb, Primo Levi, Philip Larkin, John Fante, Roald Dahl, Daniil Kharms, Yukio Mishima, Slavoj Zizek, Barbara Kruger, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, Dave Eggers, Roddy Doyle, your mum, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, Caravaggio, Jonathan Lethem, Tom McCarthy, Charles Bukowski, Samuel Beckett, Noam Chomsky, hjkhyiutydf, Alexander Vvedensky, Alice Walker, Gaston Leroux, Bram Stoker, Walter Benjamin, Solomon Northup, Stewart Home, Don Paterson, Jenny Holzer, Raymond Roussel, Tony Harrison, Damien Hirst, Erwin Wurm, Ann Quin, William Blake.
Currently listening to: Health, A Place To Bury Strangers, No Age 'Nouns',
We are a London based three piece using two guitars, drums and vocals. Drawing influence from Dischord bands we fuse jagged guitars, stacked rhythms and monotone spaces into short, coherent structures. We reside in your peripheral vision.
We have played live at the following venues... The Bull and Gate, The Delancey NYC, The George, The Hub Bar, The Amersham Arms, The Rhythm Factory, Catch.
We have played with the following bands...Dirty Minimal, Say No! to Architecture, Factory Floor, The Spivs!, Plastic Passion, The Pepys, spc eco, The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, formsformsforms, Tim Goalen, Mini Puma, Bobby Long, PyramidPyramid and Black Helium.
We have been played on Artrocker Radio, Resonance FM, OLO Radio and Dandelion Radio.
built for ghosts (Now Running)'s Friend Space (Top 16)
strong minimal techno release with balls from sinisa tamamovic from bosnia. the way he creates atmospheres with only a few sounds, perfectly fitting breaks and unique soundmodelling show his outstanding talent, certainly a guy to watch. additionally alex bau delivers a remix, and well, what else could you expect as another sure floorshot from mr. techno. go grab this just as all the topjocks before...early plays: Alex Bau, Len Faki, Kai Kinkel, Tim Xavier, Anderson Noise...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters.
Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
Hey -- Tickets are on sale now for my show at the ICA in London on the 9th of November! You can get them from the ICA box office, or from the Gaymonkey Shop. I haven't been to the UK in awhile - so I'm looking forward to seeing you at the show and performing some new songs. /ebb
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