Music: ANI DIFRANCO Portishead Chester Travis Andrew Bird FIONN REGAN Bic Runga Flight of the Conchords Bon Iver Bright Eyes Charlie Parker David Bowie Cat Stevens Death Cab Don McClean GOMEZ Elliot Smith The Finn Brothers Iron and Wine Nick Drake Ben Folds Bjork Damien Rice David Gray Bob Dylan Travis Coldplay Crowded House FIONA APPLE The Shins Kimbra John Mayer Jewel Paul Simon Ryan Adams Jose Gonzales Lior Lisa Germano Muse Ane Brun The Beatles Teitur Anna Ternheim Sufjan Stevens Aqualung Dudley Benson Colin Hay Dresden Dolls Elbow JUDE Neil Young RADIOHEAD Sigur Ros
Film: Fight Club Birth
Shawshank Redemption
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Princess Bride
Eternal Sunshine For The Spotless Mind
Television: Summer Heights High SIX FEET UNDER Damages The Office Arrested Development Futurama
Other: Chris Lilley Stephen Merchant Ricky Gervais Leonard Cohen Ellen Duval Paul and Arron George Saunders Alain deBotton
Hailing from Canterbury, New Zealand, Chester Travis does not conform to the local reference of a "one-eyed Cantabrian". Chester is without doubt a "two-eyed Cantabrian" with one eye firmly focused on his piano and the other fixated on his guitar.
With a reputation for melodies and lyrics and on occasion the two together, Travis shares a life full of experience.
Chester first learnt about notes and quavers and stuff on the piano, learning from the age of seven. Guitar, however, came later and with much more struggle, though not musically. At twelve years old Chester begged his parents for a guitar. Unfortunately, one year earlier Chester had also begged, pleaded, haggled and bargained for a unicycle, every child’s dream. Young Travis got what he had cried so loud for...and never used it. The unicycle left without even another wheel to keep it company.
So when Chester went through the same ordeal a year on, Mum and Dad were suitably skeptical. But obviously Chester received his wish of a guitar which he promptly started teaching to himself. When he was about 13 or 14 Chester trasped through Europe with his family. While they were living on a barge - on a french canal, in a tiny tiny French town called Le Someil - the lack of Buxom French, and also not hairy ladies under 70, thrust Chester into a realm of immense boredom and frustration. This frustration and boredom would cause him to ride off into vineyards day after day on a wee French bicycle with a guitar on his back, where he taught himself to write original material.
A 'Kiwi' with strong international influences, Chester's work has to date culminated in the critically acclaimed EP, "7", released in May 2007. Real Groove magazine called it "a portent of greatness" while the Christchurch Press dubbed the release as "a slice of pan baked heaven".
And Chester's mum almost fainted with pride.
Much of the material is now back in the oven, preparing for a full length debut album which will, no doubt, confirm the suspicions of fans and critics alike that Chester's musical stamp will make a huge mark on the international stage. "7" EP available now.
VIDEOS
Womb Live from Acoustic Footprint February 2008
Cheap Shot A small animation I made a couple of years back.
Introducing Azure's Debut Promo album::. Just a Thought..
A 100% Originally Produced Mix! ---Tribal-Tech House/Experimental
Created to gradually stimulate the mind from a deeply relaxed trance or state of unawareness into a higher consciousness using custom built Delta, Theta, Alpha Beta, Gamma binaural frequencies (Stereo Headphones only).
-Featuring samples from- System of a Down Eisley Enya Tchaikovsky The Heaven's Gate Cult initiation tape
With original melodies and sounds, and guitar talents of Integral Machine.
TSHIRT & EP GIVEAWAY Once you have voted, email us and tell us the name of any other band also in the Auckland Region, and we'll put your name in the hat for a FREE I Am Giant T-shirt and City Limits EP.
We are gonna give away 6 Shirts and EP's
1. click the link below, it will take you to the voting page. 2. Select AUCKLAND for the region 3. Select I AM GIANT and push the vote button.
Yes I am! This Wednesday (the 30th) in Camden, in a bar called The Elixir Bar. Are you busy that night? It's supposed to be a very nice bar, it'd be great if you could come :)
A while back you said you liked my music so i just wanted to do a little bit of shameless promotion! I have a new album out now on itunes (UK, US, Canada, and Japan), Rhapsody, Napster, IMVU, Shockhound and Amie Street!!
Hey, thanks for the Add! Hope everything is well for you right now. We're hoping to get some new tracks up in the next couple of weeks. Cheers for listening - DSP
Cheers for the add Chester - I like your sounds - 'All That I Can Be' is def my fav:)! I hope you like my stuff too:)! Good luck & all the best from Paul:)!
Sup Chester Travis I'm not usually into the whole mass commenting thing, so apologies if this does come across like some spam...but it aint! Just in case you haven't checked it yet...here's my new video for Whoa (remix with PNC & Flowz). Directed by Shahir Daud with a tiny $6000 budget and a solid 7 months in post production! Lemme know what you think and feel free to help a dude out by linking your friends up if you think they might like it!
Peace! Percieve www.percieve.co.nz (you can check out more vids etc here)
Online Now!
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HAYLAR
