I am a free spirit utilising the sonic possibilities of the studio (unless it gets nicked)
Influences
MUSIC:Dead Meadow, Espers, Windy & Carl, Current 93, Brian Jonestown Massacre, MV & EE with The Bummer Road, Charalambides, James Blackshaw, Akron/Family, Phillip Glass, late-period Talk Talk, Einsturzende Neubauten, Spacemen 3, Growing, Stereolab, Low, Battles, Broadcast, Double Leopards, Four Tet / Fridge, Movietone, Electrelane, Bikini Atoll, The Early Years, The Double, Boris, general Japanese power electronics (Merzbow, KK Null, etc.), Ghost, Throbbing Gristle, Swans (particularly the 'Public Castration Is A Good Idea' double album), Wolf Eyes, Aphex Twin (especially 'Selected Ambient Works' series), Consumer Electronics, Les Georges Leningrad, Camera Obscura, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, My Bloody Valentine, Joy Division, Jesus & Mary Chain, Ride, A Silver Mount Zion, Esmerine, Rachel's, Set Fire To Flames, Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, Seefel, Animal Collective, Hotogosisu, Neutral Milk Hotel, Caribou (formerly Manitoba), Es; any cosmic freak-out shit with overdriven guitars, freak-out drums and ludicrous 'Battlestar Galactica'-type Korg keyboard effects: Acid Mothers Temple, Sun Ra, Magma, Comets on Fire, Jackie O-Motherfucker, Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man (formerly Shit-Spangled Banner), Bardo Pond, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Gong ('Camembert Electrique'), etc.; Hood, Pram, Codeine, This Heat / Charles Hayward, Big Star, Cul de Sac, Deerhoof, Tortoise, Dirty 3, Can, Faust, Neu!, Amon Duul II, Tangerine Dream, Fennesz, Gang Gang Dance, Mars, Glenn Branca, Mazzy Star / Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions, Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, Shit and Shine, The Atomic Bitchwax, Fuck Off Batman, The Small Faeces, Flying Saucer Attack, Ten Minutes With My Dad, John Fahey, David Pajo, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, LCD Soundsystem, Liars, The Projects, Arcade Fire, Boards of Canada, Nico, Royal Trux, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth, Galaxie 500 / Damon & Naomi, Jack Rose and his endless modal drone, Duke Spirit, The Stooges and some of Iggy Pop's solo stuff but not his terrible 80's period, The Modern Lovers, 13th Floor Elevators, Spectrum / Sonic Boom, Spiritualized, United States of America (the 60's psychedelic primitive electronics outfit, not the crap 90's trio), Wilco, Suicide, Silver Apples, The White Noise, Kraftwerk, MC5, Barratt-era Pink Floyd, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Out Hud, Tom Vek, (smog), Richard Youngs, various bands on Constellation records (Polmo Polpo, Black Ox Orkestar, Eric Chenaux, Hrsta etc.), Phil Niblock, Stars of the Lid, Herman Dune, Phosphorescent, the many guises of Will Oldham, Sufjan Stevens, Sun O)))), madrigal-type modal British folk-rock stuff in which there's a medeival-looking babe with long flowing hair singing in a meadow (Steelye Span, Sandy Denny solo, Fairport Convention, 'The Battle of Evermore' by Led Zeppelin, Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake, etc.), Brian Eno (both 'Here Come The Warm Jets-'era and subsequent Ambient period), the sound of electrically-chaged Io orbiting across the face of Jupiter, the cosmic drone emanating from the rings of Saturn, Rolf Harris...that's all for now - more to come
LABELS:
Fat Cat
Domino
Matador
Kranky
Crippled Hot Dick Wax!
Constellation
Aesthetics
ATP
Track & Field
Too Pure
Warp
Rough Trade
Leaf Label
Bella Union
Sounds Like
The vibrating strings that make up the cosmic energy and matter of the known Universe (not including black holes and dark matter)
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I was born one starry night in the year of punk rock. I believe in the energy of the e-bow, emanating like the cosmic drone that's at the centre of our Universe. I capture the distant sounds of the ether and filter it through my music like a messenger from space. I live in east London, the axis of all evil as personified by George Galloway, an MP who has pretended to be a cat on prime-time TV.
Pastimes: drinking and seeing unlistenable noise bands, often with ridiculous monikers (Shit & Shine, Acid Mothers Temple, etc.) and numerous drummers. Playing in a band called Fractured Waves. Recording music on a Tascam 8-track through a V-Amp effects pod with the reverb cranked up. Playing badminton. Buying bagels on Brick Lane. Liking posh girls who dream about riding ponies and the such like. Going to the Duke of Uke shop - the best in London for ukeleles and banjos.
Please read my blog and also my music writings here:
- on Pennyblackmusic - on CD Times
Also available to perform solo drone noise workouts for parties, bar mitzvahs, office dos, etc., especially those which resemble that in the clip below:
cheers! nice drones! sorry i couldn't make saturday. hope it was a good one. let me know if you want a half price guest list for me and dave swarbrick on thursday...ellen
why thank you. I am also rather keen on your musical influences. did you know that gangly housemate of yours is possibly coming for a shimmy at Crimes Against Pop this weekend? you should come too. hurray.
ey up mister. how is it? i'm sure you've probably seed this already, but if not, pull up a chair, kick back with a bit of a booze, and enjoy. horton ;o)
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