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AN ANGEL FELL WHERE THE KESTRELS HOVER OUT NOW



West Melton, Canterbury
New Zealand

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Member Since3/14/2006
Band Websitewww.distantbombs.com
Band MembersElectric Guitars (12 & 6 strings)
Mini Tambura
Laptop effects & processors (reverbs, delays, compressors, modulators, resonators...)
Loop Station
Distortion (various pedal combinations)
Moogerfooger
Contact microphones
Pre-recorded field recordings
Bulbul Tarang
Chimes, bells & percussion
Plectrums, ebow, fingers, violin bow
Room ambience
Memory
...etc
Influencesstuff....... y'know like that time where you wake up after a really intense dream and find your face has stuck to your drool-incrusted pillow because you forgot to swallow... records are pretty cool too. 7" of fun... i've got some somewhere, let's see... 'mannequin' wire... mm probably too cool.. how about 'something's gotten hold of my heart' marc almond & gene pitney.. classic
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   About Peter Wright

Peter Wright’s guitar playing is mercurial, in one of its original meanings: ‘liquid at all ordinary temperatures.’ Like many drone artists, he uses effects and the now-humble laptop to erase easily definable beginnings and ends from his compositions. Rather, Wright leaves things in states of constant suspension, such that his music best deserves analogy to visual arts – it’s often close to a pendulous, organically evolving sculpture, constantly morphing in front of your ears, its constant a glowing ball of light, placed deep inside, radiating heat. This isn’t the only thing Wright does, but it’s one of things he does best.

Jon Dale | Dusted Reviews

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AN ANGEL FELL WHERE THE KESTRELS HOVER
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Third full length release for 2009, coming hard on the heels of Bright Failing Star and Snow Blind. Recorded in tandem with Snow Blind in London during July 2007, covering themes based on seasonal changes and mood swings. Where Snow Blind was harsh, unrelenting and a little pissed off, An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover shows a more reflective and melancholic approach. Comes in a beautiful book-sized wallet designed by mondii featuring photography by PW.

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BRIGHT FAILING STAR
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Born in New Zealand and a true veteran of the experimental scene, Peter Wright has spent more than a decade developing his mesmerizing guitar work close to perfection. As fellow New Zealand underground acts like Antony Milton and Birchville Cat Motel, Peter Wright has been very prolific during the years and released a huge amount of releases around the world. RTB are very proud to present Bright Failing Star, the first vinyl-only album from Peter Wright! Perhaps a bit more slow-paced and somber than other of his recordings, the sounds on Bright Failing Star are calm while yet being powerful. With the beautiful open air dynamics and the somewhat colder feeling, the subtle tones of Bright Failing Star are very autumn-like. Coldness with a warm undertone, darkness with some hints of light. Organic drone music at it’s best. Assembled with recordings from England, USA and Norway. Limited to 300 copies, black vinyl, full colour artwork by Peter Wright and mastered by Viktor Ottosson.<

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SNOW BLIND
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Peter Wright is a true veteran of the experimental scene, hailing from New Zealand with a catalogue that goes back over a full decade. We're very proud to present you with his newest offering, a mammoth double-album called Snow Blind. Anyone familiar with Peter's music will be happy to hear lots of the layered guitar drones and textural interplay that his records have been known for, however we feel this is a totally accessible record to anyone who enjoys dense drones or ambient music. Wright coaxes otherworldly harmonies out of thick slabs of rocky chords that tower nearly endlessly like cliffs overlooking a black ocean, with some pieces keeping a calm, stately mood and others bursting with hot yellow energies. Altogether this is one of the finest collections of guitar music we've heard in a very long time, and should not be missed. Presented on a limited run of 300 copies with sprawling and unique artwork by Peter himself.

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THE TERRIFYING REALISATION WE MIGHT BE WRONG
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Second 7" release for Dirty Knobby takes us on another diversion through a hellish landscape peppered with brittle discordance and fuzzed out string burn, courtesy of an old cheaply produced Indian 'banjo', or bulbul tarang, which had the wooden keyboard removed, a contact mic attached and then thwacked repeatedly with a screwdriver head. The track evolves from this nightmarish scenario into something utterly transfixing, again created using a contact mic, rubbing on a table top and fed through a laptop. For the flip side two short guitar-based snapshots are offered, barely 2 minutes each in length, and sounding slightly more traditional Peter Wright in comparison, although no less invigorating than the A side. Very limited copies in full colour artwork.

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PRETTY MUSHROOM CLOUDS
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Pretty Mushroom Clouds, edited together from live recordings spanning both two continents and two years, treats suspension as its raison d’etre, from the blue-grey haze of tone that shivers across “Pretty Mushroom Clouds,” to the quietly sifting grains of noise that fall through “Ash.” But Wright, thankfully, doesn’t relinquish dynamics; these descriptions may suggest something inert, or close to stasis, but “The Devil Wears Sunroof” puts paid to that assertion. Wright significantly levers up the volume and intensity through this 20-minute-plus performance, from The Yod Space in Northampton Mass.. His guitar playing, jolted from its more comfortable skins, moves into different zones: shuddering scrawls that whip and whistle like broken, sparking electrical wires, tensile streams of single notes, buckling under Wright’s fingers. Here, he occasionally approaches the heaviness of Keiji Haino’s noise avalanches.

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MAGPIE ATTACK ON THE BACK ROAD TO ALBERT TOWN
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Great to have a new single by this splendid New Zealand expatriate, currently based in London. His solo performances are astounding, and the two tracks here are emblematic. You look at the instrument list -12 string, mini-tambura, bells, etc - and try to figure out what the hell is making each of the great staggered drones that drift across the record before they get all aggressive and stuff. And man - it's no easier when watching him. A beautiful alchemical blend of noise and drift.

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AT LAST A NEW DAWN
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London resident and New Zealand native Peter Wright maps the same guitar/noise outlands as his NZ predecessors The Dead C, an acknowledged influence, first blazed through. His kit is an electric 12-string, pedals and, when recording, a laptop. He improvises a digital drone or melody fragment, the loops, layers and adds field recordings. His tools and methods are minimal, but his output is not. Since 1998, he has released 30 discs of solo material, much of it honing the same massive, blissful drift of decay and evolution.

The nine pieces on this two disc set encompass all the forms his approach can assume. There are extended drone forms, agitated textural landscapes and shorter abstract elegies. Yet Wright's touch is an organic one, and the exquisite sequencing here means the pieces coalesce into an enveloping, overwhelming flow.

Wright's music is always a delicate balance between its harrowing ascent towards climax and his cinematic ear for the audio panning shot. For the first three-quarters of the 30 minute title track, he builds an engrossing dialogue out of drifting tones, living tendrils of feedback, snippets of birdsong, and the conjured organ- and string-like timbres. But it's midway through "Blue Light District" that Wright's craft is fully realised. As the chatter of radio announcers appears, one notices they are actual excerpts from the London terrorist attacks on 7 July 2006 (sic). Even at their subtle volume, they disturb the placid ambience, utterly transforming the mood and direction of the piece. Wright excels at this kind of slow poetic reveal, and succeeds in opening up intense imaginary spaces.

Matthew Wuethrich | The Wire

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PETER WRIGHT DISCOGRAPHY

An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels Hover | Spekk | CD | 2009
Bright Failing Star | Release The Bats | LP | 2009
Snow Blind | Install | 2xCD | 2009
The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong | Dirty Knobby | 7" | 2009
Pretty Mushroom Clouds | Archive Recordings | CD | 2008
Magpie Attack On The Back Road To Albert Town | Dirty Knobby Records | 7" | 2007
At Last A New Dawn | Students Of Decay | 2xCD | 2007
Crater Lake | Blackest Rainbow | CDr | 2007
Folk Songs And Blackness | (...) | 2xCDr limited 'tour' edition | 2006
Air Guitar | Drone Records | 7" | 2006
Red Lion | Digitalis | CD | 2006
Unvarnished, Untreated, Unzipped | The Seedy R! | CDr | 2006
Pariahs Sing Om | Last Visible Dog | 3xCD | 2006
Desolation Beauty Violence | Ikuisuus | CD | 2005
Yellow Horizon | Pseudoarcana | CD | 2005
Red Lion | (...) | CDr limited 'tour edition' | 2005
Distant Bombs | Last Visible Dog | CD | 2004
Desolation Beauty Violence | Foxglove | CDr | 2004
Pariahs Sing Om | Apoplexy | CDr | 2003
Catch A Spear As It Flies | Celebrate PSI Phenomenon | CDr | 2003
The Broken Kawai | Pseudoarcana | CDr | 2002
Distant Bombs | Apoplexy | CDr | 2002
Transfusion | Last Visible Dog | CDr | 2002
A Tiny Camp In The Wilderness | Celebrate PSI Phenomenon | CDr | 2001
Clavius | 20city | 7" | 2001
Duna | Last Visible Dog | CDr | 2000
Automaton | Apoplexy | CDr | 2000
Radioplay | Apoplexy | CDr | 1999
Moments Of Inappropriate Abandon | Apoplexy | 2x7" | 1999
Syncopate | Apoplexy | CDr | 1998
LP No. 1 | Apoplexy | LP/CDr | 1998


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Nov 23 2009 6:40 AM

in girum imus nocte ecce et consumimur igni



[F]LUISTER

[F]LUISTER



Nov 21 2009 9:28 AM

thans for the add. I like 'the An Angel fell Where the Kestrels Hover' album [W]

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SMERT

SMERT



Nov 18 2009 7:31 PM

Counter intelligence units created by the Soviets in 1943 - http://lnk.ms/4MZkC
mise en scene

mise en scene



Nov 16 2009 8:11 PM

much much appreciation

best
shay
SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS

SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS



Nov 10 2009 10:45 PM

WOOOOO!! THANKS PETER!!
SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS

SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS



Nov 10 2009 9:46 AM

Thank you Peter,
AWE...


produções Ganza

produções Ganza



Nov 4 2009 7:12 AM

Grant Beedie

Grant Beedie



Nov 4 2009 7:11 AM

Hey and thanks for the add!  Keep the songs coming, all the best for now, Grant in New Zealand:)
Art Lip

Art Lip



Nov 4 2009 7:11 AM

Thank you and welcome !
NoddlyMan

NoddlyMan



Oct 27 2009 7:00 PM

Thank's so much for the ADD!!
Greetings from Spain
NoddlyMan

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Oct 14 2009 8:12 AM

new 12" is completely gorgeous, both to hold in hands & to listen to!  many props.
O r n i t o l o g y

O r n i t o l o g y



Oct 13 2009 9:21 AM

Really interestin music, is great and nice cover artwork!


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Oct 12 2009 9:50 AM

Lethe "Catastrophe Point #5" CD is now available 

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Oct 9 2009 2:31 AM

Thank you so much for adding me!
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Sep 29 2009 2:41 AM

I raise a glass, pour it over my eyes, down my trousers...
le rêve réveille

le rêve réveille



Sep 19 2009 10:13 AM



unreasonable...
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Sep 2 2009 7:39 AM

thanks a lot for add

Attilo
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Sep 2 2009 7:39 AM

mr sterile Assembly Bug my Ride ALBUM launch : Sat SEPT 5 HAPPY : feat. guests Public Toilet Ltd., Alphabethead, Sakoomoorooazar, & Ladieswear Landscapi.
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Album $15 - first 25 sold receive limited edition screen printed tote page in a happy hand wrapped package.



A sample of the new songs now posted to the myspace page
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Eye



Jul 29 2009 6:25 AM

allo allo. : ) Peter P here. I am a bit slack with this site, but there you go. Chicks was great fun - thanks for coming down. We should start to plan Oamaru and Chch!!  xx  pp
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Jul 15 2009 6:28 AM

Thank you for adding me:*
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Jul 7 2009 7:35 AM

thank you...kindness from the UK
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May 28 2009 2:36 AM

Fonal Records

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May 20 2009 10:36 PM





And we also got some new albums coming up by Es, Kiila and Tomutonttu! Es and Kiila you can listen to in myspace in full!
the Infrared Experience

the Infrared Experience



May 20 2009 10:35 PM

Great work, Peter.
Really wonderful songs.
I hope you like my music, too.
Kind regards
tie


Coming soon on ContraMusikProduktion
The album "WHITE" by "The Infrared Experience".
3 foldable digisleeve.
LORGA

LORGA



May 14 2009 2:40 AM

Thanks for the add

Please listen to my tunes and make a comment

New project needs all support

ALL THE WILL


LORGA
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