NEW TELEPATHICS

Bio:

NEW TELEPATHICS --- Darryn Harkness leads his fellow Research Agents through songs, compositions, arrangements and improvisation - New Telepathics have released vinyl, CDs, a DVD and cassettes through OUR RECORDS, (distributed through Rhythm Method and available through I Tunes and Amplifier) - New Telepathics are currently working on the new album for 2010 - ..

Member Since:

February 10, 2006

Members:

Darryn Harkness - producer, song writer, multi instrumentalist - Albums, recordings and live shows can be either Harkness on his own or can include up to 10 musicians from his collective of International Research Agents - Research Agents recording the new 2010 album: Mark Hussey - drums ---Matt Brennan - guitars --- Carl Rayner - bass --- Steve Jellard - saxophone and instruments ---Darryn Harkness - instruments and vocals. Research Agents on the 2009 'Rudiments and Theory of Silence' tour: Shannon Fraser - bass, percussion --- Oliver Emmitt - trombone, vocals & percussion --- Alistair Deverick - drums --- Matt Brennan - guitar, percussion --- Darryn Harkness - vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, drums --- Tristan Corbett - bass --- Hugh Vickers - bass. Research Agents on the 2008 New Zealand 'You Have Been Warned!' tour: Tim Neuhaus - drums, vocals --- Chris Williams-alto saxophone, percussion --- Christoph Bernewitz - guitar, percussion --- Shannon Fraser - bass, percussion --- Darryn Harkness - vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion, drums.

Influences:

"some of the artists that inspired me as I was getting into music (In no particular order) include - Sun Ra, Captain Beefheart, Ornette Coleman, Burning Spear, Can, Franz Kafka, Jimi Hendrix, Band of Gypsies, Harry Partch, Samuel Beckett, Firehose, Joesph Beuys, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Neil Young, Lee Scratch Perry, Kevin Coyne, Minutemen, Albert Camus, Jo Jones, Tom Waits, Foisemaster, Einstürzende Neubauten, Ian & Carolyn, Hermann Hesse, Duke Ellington, William Burroughs,The Who, Fela Kuti, Nick Drake, The Residents, Johnny Cash, Space Waltz, Husker Dü, John Lennon, Split Enz, Hasil Adkins, John Lee Hooker, Straitjacket fits, Georg Baselitz, From Scratch, Buddy Rich, Pere Ubu, Robert Johnson, Roland Kirk, Led Zeppelin, King Tubby, Chris Knox, Count Basie, Bad Brains... and some of the artists that have been exciting to me over the past 10 years or so would be Melt Banana, Sizzla, Aphex Twin, Capleton, Man is the Bastard, Dead Prez, Godspeed you black emperor... "

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OUR RECORDS