Rosy Parlane, Fennesz, Alistair Galbraith, Bailterspace, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Thomas Koner, Birchville Cat Motel, Porter Ricks, Lee Ranaldo etc etc.
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New Zealand's Nigel Wright is part of a loose conglomerate of artists, circling around the CMR label, who have found new ways to approach computer music. Wright works with big, weighty chunks of sound and his palette is all oppresive greyscale and flickering hints of kaleidoscopic colour. He uses laptop to weather and and rust his guitars strings, ricocheting hefty down-strummed chords through cavernous banks of effects and then watching the overtones drift in the distance, like trailing headlights captured on polaroids. Sometimes Wright's music suggests the early releases on German techno label Chain Reaction if they were stripped of all rhythm; on the evidence of Tapir, however, I wouldn't be surprised if soon he was spoken of in the same breath as Tim Hecker and Christian Fennesz
The Wire (UK) - October 2006
Nigel Wright's 'Tapir' is a two-track, 3" CD designed to be played loud. All Talk sees the Auckland-based sound artist feed wild rivers of guitar drone and hand-cranked tape through his laptop, injecting the churning noise with mountains of reverb, thus ensuing boom like that of massive bells at the bottom of a waterfall. Cardboard is all-static, rattlesnake hiss, again, constructed via the processing of raw guitar and tape sounds on the laptop, but this time the more throaty spit of the guitar is juxtaposed by slowly disintegrating melodic waves. Like its predecessor, the dense thrum surrounding the piece is held up by Wright's penchant for melting beauty into sheer volume. - DB Magazine, Adelaide 2006
We were first introduced to Mr. Nigel Wright (not to be confused with fellow dronester Peter Wright) via a super limited cd-r on the CMR label. A gorgeous assemblage of mysterious loop based systems. Totally hit the spot for fans of Coleclough, Ambarchi, Nilsen, Chalk and the like (like us!). Well, recently Wright got in touch with us to see if we wanted to carry his latest release, another super limited cd-r, this time a 15 minute 3" in crafty hand made packaging. Well, the answer was obviously "Hell yeah!" and thus we have this, another completely mesmerizing slab of warm fuzzy looped and drone drenched goodness. The first track comes on like some My Bloody Valentine William Basinski mash up. Thick gauzy waves of distortion wrapped around delicate glistening melodies, layered and looped into a haunting ebb and flow of pulsing drone and slow shifting buzz. The sound is very organic, rich and thick and multi-hued, almost like a warmer fuzzier SUNNO))). The second track pushes even further out in the same fuzzed out blown out ambient direction, the guitars (?) are even more corrosive, channeling the wall of skree sound of bands like Sunroof! but filtered through the doe-eyed innocence and romantic moodiness of bands like M83 or any of their like minded Gooom labelmates. Dreamy and ambient enough to be perfect for the drone obsessed, but enough like some avant rockdrone outfit to appeal to folks who have been digging Nadja, The Angelic Process, Hjarnidaudi, Jesu and the like. Awesome!
Not sure how limited these are but we're guessing VERY, so act fast. Packaged in tiny little plastic sleeves with colored paper covers and simple typed insert.
Aquarius Records - USA - 2006
Fuck, first there was Celebrate Psi Phenemona, and then Pseudoarcana jumped into the fray, and now CMR is the latest label to start releasing super limited edition cd-r's from the New Zealand underground of improv free-noise, lo-fi drone scraping, and damaged sound art. Not to be confused with the Andrew Lloyd Webber associate of the same name, the Auckland based Nigel Wright focuses on loop-based systems which he transforms into miasmic drones. It's hard to say if those looping systems refer to feedbacking loops (which is possible as there is a cyclical sine-wave feel to many of Wright's sounds) or to a Terry Riley time-lag accumulation (which is also possible with all of the crystaline percolations that ripple through the dronescaping); regardless of the process, Wright's eponymous debut recording alternates between deadened electrical atmospherics and beautifully blissed out driftscapes. Fans of BJ Nilsen, Oren Ambarchi, and Jonathan Coleclough should take note! - Aquarius Records - USA
Nigel Wright has been creating audio for over 8 years and is known for
his spacious, expansive sound pieces. NW uses his laptop to process guitar and tape loop source sounds, creating dense, tonal drones.
Mainstay of Auckland experimental performance hub 'The Wine Cellar', NW has been involved with a number of festivals in Auckland, such as alt.music (who he also curates for occasionally). Further afield, he played at Liquid Architecture 2007 in Brisbane and Sydney.
Collaboration with Andrew Scott (Golden Krone, Un Ciego, Metal Rouge) is the mobiustrip Nest. NW also frequently collaborates live with Tim Coster (Plains).
NW has also worked with audio/visual pieces with his first work premiering at the 2006 Auckland International Film Festival, in an audio-visual feedback loop entitled 'Release', based on video work supplied by San Franciso artist Aaron Coyes.
Discography:
CDr - CMR records 2005
Processions - Claudia Records 2006 (compilation)
I don't think the dirt belongs to the grass - Carbon Records 2006 (compilation - my remix of a pumice track appears on this)
Tapir - 3" CDr - Self Released
Flotter - Gest
Nest(Nigel Wright/Andrew Scott) + Mhfs - Gest01 -3"
Nest(Nigel Wright/Andrew Scott) + Richard Francis (we have a track on the Room40 Comp, On Isolation)
Nest(Nigel Wright/Andrew Scott) + Tim Coster - Gest02 (CDr)
Alleluya - 3" CDr - Diagnosis Don't....(Australia)
Nigel Wright / Tim Coster - 3" CDr - CLaudia
Nigel Wright / Tim Coster - Cathedrals - CLaudia
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Hi! I hope you are good and having a nice summer. Here is my latest mix, called "Four Steps From Home", hope you like it! Thanks, and have a good time.
Hola! Espero que estes bien y pasando un buen verano. Aqui tienes mi ultima sesion, se llama " A cuatro pasos de casa" , espero que te guste! Gracias y que lo pases bien!
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