CRACKLE is an off-kilter collaboration between bass player Nick Doyne-Ditmas [Shape Moreton, Charles Hayward, Pinski Zoo] and drummer Frank Byng [Snorkel, Spring Tides, Charles Stuart], that draws on their extensive experience as musicians and producers. Through a series of studio experiments and improvisations the duo reference a wide range of traditions and practices, moving between analog and digital, acoustic and electric, lo-fi and hi-fi… theirs is a musical blog about the cross-cultural traffic of south London, a soundtrack to the highways and byways of a discombobulated city.
The debut album ..Heavy Water.. is out now on Slowfoot Records.
"So varied and fabulous an album - by local mavericks Nick Doyne-Ditmas and Frank Byng - that we have trouble selecting this one cut, but fans of Miles Davis, Augustus Pablo and Isotope 217 alike will fall fast for it's ineffable cool" [Time-Out]
“…the pair take in the heavy, messy art-funk of Material and other downtown types, the lateral thinking and mixdown trickery of Brian Eno or Holger Czukay, and the textural understanding of This Heat.” [The Wire]
"..an electrifying cross between slumberland-trekking 'In A Silent Way' minimalism and heavy, heady dub" [Kruger magazine]
"South London duo dodge ambient electronica conventions to striking effect" [Uncut]
"Anyone interested in the outer limits of Afro-Dub Jazz from the likes of HIM and Isotope 217 could do a whole lot worse than dive headfirst into Heavy Water" [experimusic.com]
“…a loose, shifting album of cross-cultural surveillance, a living, breathing expedition into our petroleum fuelled city streets through evolving and involving free-jazz electronica” [Future Music]
"Very peculiar but highly enjoyable nonetheless" [Boomkat]
"The deliciously murky world of Crackle" [Verity Sharp - Late Junction, Radio 3]
"...Marvellous south London duo Crackle.. ... won our hearts at Barry Adamson's Pigalle Club show by forcing supper club punters to consume their grilled monkfish to a distinctly uneasy soundtrack of murky experimental electro jazz" [Time Out]
Hello! Here I show you my new instrument ready to the electronic and experimental live music performance. It's a little bit odd... Maybe you..d like to enjoy this live-set. Come and feel it on this video.
Hola! Aquí os presento mi nuevo instrumento preparado para la interpretación de música experimental y electrónica en directo. Es un poco curioso... A lo mejor os gustaría disfrutar de este live-set. Venid y escuchadlo en este vídeo.
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