Stevie McLachlan, - Core member
Steven Rattery - drum programing on Loki
Influences
Musical influences are a mangled mesh of Mogwai, Boards of Canada, Flaming Lips, Do Make Say Think, My Bloody Valentine, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Primal Scream, Spacemen 3, 3rd Eye Foundation, Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, Out Hud, Glissandro 70, Le Fly Pan Am, Keith Fullerton Whitman, David Kitt, Pram etc
Philosophical influences include; Bill Hicks, Robert Anton Wilson, Terrence McKenna, Timothy leary, Doug Stanhope, The I Ching, Tool, Graham Hancock & Robert Buvaul, ancient egypt and other such sites,
Sounds Like
The melody the Oort clouds hears as tree slowly falls over in a deserted forest on earth while a comet hurtles overhead producing the post beautiful of sunsets
Pet project of Stevie McLachlan's Jungian number 2 personality. Started at the turn of the gregorian millennium to exercise musical ideas that wouldn't translate well to a band situation and has slowly developed under that pretext, hence no live gigs have been performed and none are planned. (though the possiblity has never been ruled out)
3 recordings have been released on CD's so far, "Futile Industry" EP (2000), the "Great Conviction" album (2001), and then the "Sleep Inertia" album (2003), album number 3 is in the works.
All recording so far have been done on a digital 8 track, the next one will be recorded using my new PC based home studio set up with live drums done down at Blue Cat Studios, the sound be a fairly huge leap forward from the previous stuff as I've spent a few years creating negatives for material and am now ready to develop it through the recording process.
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(PS. Single "Eyes" out April 16th. Thought you may like to know.)
