Presently Anthony Burnside AKA Anton Burns and Paddy Steer
But some members and collaborators from past 10 years still include/and have included Graham Massey, Seaming To, Semay Wu, Simon King, Faron Brooks, Richard Harrison, Pat Illingworth, Rosie Lowdell, Justin Lingard, Matt Batty, James Ford, Steve Chadwick, Bob Dinn, Sasha Pushkin, Andy Diagram, Rina Aroyo, Sally Steer, Owen Bourne, Howard Jacobs
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Paddy Steer & Tony Burnside have now amassed a sizable back catalogue of releases under the moniker HOMELIFE . It's almost a home recording experiment that grew into an orchestra, gathering in some of MCR's finest musicians, one by one, to create the work with a craftsman’s care. Then with equal attention to detail to recreate the music and take it on tour: a labor of love which continued for several years. Then at some point this" red giant” exploded into a "white dwarf"
: Paddy, it seems, decided that he would play all the instruments at once. 'Madness!' I hear you say except; that this is what appears to be happening as he sits at the drum kit plays, bass with his feet and wields dozens of homemade instruments into some strange kinetic sculpture. Now a duo, Tony"s song-writing has come to the fore, nicely balanced by the DIY approach to the instrumentation that keeps it more akin to outsider music than traditional song forms.
HOMELIFE - EXOTIC INTERLUDE
"Your houses, they look like cakes! "(Japanese visitor to Manchester 1993)The world of the exotic lives in the imagination, a way of looking at the world, A useful way of coping now we live on Google Earth, mapped and finite, a shrunken head. More than an interlude, Homelife have painted an Exotic English landscape. An urban crust on heathen clay, the village green from tower blocks. The tower blocks seen distant from green hill sides, Pagan pylons bathed in antiseptic sunlight fingers. Bright moulds, vines and blooms on Victorian iron decay. Feel the sandstone turn to limestone, rock of ages, dirty flags, caves of blue john, land of lakes and red brick evening glow. Exotic Interlude is a mature work, slow brewed. I feel I’ve heard it all in a dream, its familiar but utterly strange. It might be words engaging me, emotions I can empathize with, uncomfortably honest, sweetened by being set amongst gardens of glowing music. The music is both ethereal yet earthy, with heavy use of acoustic timbres, swarms of coloured percussion, bulbous synths and fresh use of languid Hawaiian guitar. A timeless English summer of a record.—Graham Massey
Hey Paddy - Many thanks for the gift - I'll certainly be taking Wobbly Jack with me on my xmas trip to L.A. - I'll be spreading the word and the good vibe of Homelife all around the west coast - hasta la vista baby - Gabriel
Club Integral @ Whitechapel Gallery, 18th December 2009.
Featuring music from Lotus Pedals, Nobodies, MayMing, Boycott Coca-Cola Experience and Jack Shirt. + DJ Chris Cornetto and projections from Jaime Rory Lucy of Rucksack Cinema
Lotus Pedals: - "Gorgeous live music from the supremely strange Lotus Pedals, who remained on stage throughout the show...shambolic, bold and beautiful...offers truly unique rewards." Beccy Smith - British Theatre Guide.
Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up!
Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia
/Ivan
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
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