shoeb ahmad - guitars :: vocals :: processing :: piano :: keyboard :: field recordings :: samples :: programming :: radio noise :: no-input mixing board
- with -
evan dorrian - brush snare :: cymbals lawrence english - field recordings adrian klumpes - piano felicity mangan - field recordings :: processed sound lucrecia pérez - backing vocals :: harmonies m.rosner - field recordings :: processed sound biddy connor - viola :: saw peter hollo - cello :: piano
Influences
Bark Psychosis, My Bloody Valentine, Low,June Of 44, Neil Finn, Crowded House, Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe, AMM, The Necks, Magic Dirt, Will Oldham, Colleen, Wilco, Tim Hecker, Le Fly Pan Am, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Hood, Pimmon, Suicide, Dean Roberts, Autistic Daughters, M.Rosner, To Rococo Rot, Christian Marclay, Shipping News, Fugazi, Minit, Rosy Parlane, Boards Of Canada, Anticon, Sixtoo, Beck, Deadbeat, Portable, Dizzee Rascal, Jackie O Motherfucker, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, The For Carnation,The Rectifiers, Something For Kate, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Triosk, Adrian Klumpes, Micah P. Hinson, Juana Molina, The Double, Supersilent, Bluebottle Kiss, Fennesz, New Order, Deathprod, Animal Collective, Pan American, Adem, Tunng, Gerling, Labradford, Arve Henriksen, Food, Refused, Not From There, Deftones, Set Fire To Flames, Anthony Guerra, Seaworthy, Castings, Function, David Sylvian, Tony Buck, Masha Qrella, Mice Parade, Chris Abrahams, Axel Dorner, I.C.P. Orchestra, The Ex, Islaja etc etc etc...
Sounds Like
a crisp Canberra morning in late April through to August...mist sitting still in the sky while frost covers the green grass outside houses...hazy sun trying to peek through the low lying cloud but being split into shards of light drifting down on water particles...
Shoeb Ahmad is a musician/sound artist based in Canberra, Australia. Beginning with toy microphones and instruments, Shoeb obsessed over feedback manipulation and minimal organ drone before feeling the push of punk experimentation. He performs and records fragile tone structures and spacious songforms using guitar, voice, field recordings, keyboard and laptop.
He has released recordings on the Sound & Fury, Wilting Flower and Low Point labels while performing alongside the likes of Gersey, DJ Olive, Richard Chartier, Tenniscoats, Christopher Willits and Magic Dirt. Shoeb has just released his first full length CD, titled 'Sonar Love Songs' on French label Cook An Egg. Here's what Boa Melody Bar out of Scotland had to say:
"Another lovely release from Shoeb Ahmad - guitar textures delayed / reverbed to the nth degree drifting towards the horizon, sometimes sounding like a guitar, with elongated notes extending ever outwards and sometimes like a ghostly shadow of the sound. Gorgeous." (Gayle Brogan)
:: LIVE ::
2005 - gigs w/ Dale Gorfinkel, DJ Olive & I/O3, M.Rosner, TQ, Gersey and Sub Audible Hum. duos w/ Peter Hollo (Fourplay), Wendi Graham (Radarmaker) and Tarquin Manek.
2006 - gigs w/ Jasmine Loop Control, Sabre Tooth Tigers, M.Rosner, Radarmaker, Polaroid Ghost, Alien Digit, Ladder, Richard Chartier, Filastine and Adrian Klumpes. duos w/ Peter Hollo (Fourplay), M.Rosner and Adrian Klumpes (Triosk). trio w/ Wendi Graham and Noah Norton (Radarmaker)
2007 - gigs w/ Three Month Sunset, Cam Butler, Robin Fox, M.Rosner, Jaime Fenelly, Blarke Bayer, Talbet Fulthorpe, Alps Of New South Wales, The Rational Academy, Pavel, Underlapper, Tenniscoats, Ben Spiers, Sam Hamilton + Adam Willitts, Nigel Wright + Tim Coster, Christopher Willits, ManKilled, Abject Leader, Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, ii, Anonymeye and Magic Dirt. duos with M.Rosner, Adrian Klumpes. trio with M.Rosner and Simon Hampson.
2008 - gigs w/ Mike Cooper, ii, Underlapper, Stina, Adam Trainer, David Shea, Crayon Fields. duo with Adrian Klumpes.
2009 - gigs w/ Woelv, Austin Benjamin Trio, Deadbeat, True Radical Miracle, Panoptique Electrical, Biddy Connor, Adam Simmons, Evan Dorrian, Pumice, Pollen Trio. duo with Adrian Klumpes, Leith Thomas, Candlesnuffer, Cameron Deyell. trio w/ Leith Thomas & Joe Talia.
:: RECORDINGS ::
'Roomsound' EP - hellosQuare recordings 2006 ...SOLD OUT...
a limited edition tour disc of lo-fi acoustic sketches layered with found percussion sounds and bedroom vocals......
Scott Da Ros' album 'One Kind Of Dead End' (Endemik Music 2006) features Shoeb on 'melodic drones' on the piece 'Dilshad And Tohti By A Frozen Lake'
'Vinyl Sketches' 3" - Sound And Fury Records 2007 ...SOLD OUT...
six piano miniatures processed live to hard disk over the course of an afternoon sometime in 2006 whilst living in Wollongong......
'Summer Drift' 3" - Wilting Flower Records 2007 ...SOLD OUT HERE...
three pieces of processed acoustic guitar drone, heavy on minimalist tones and manipulation......
'Mixed Doubles' EP - out now on hellosQuare recordings 2007 ...SOLD OUT...
a collection of ambient songforms recorded between 2006 and 2007 along with remixes by M.Rosner (Room40, Apestaartje), Prettyboy Crossover (Surgery, Sensory Projects), Part Timer (Moteer) and Jasmine Loop Control (Wilting Flower). housed in a beautiful handmade cotton sleeve and case, this CDr is in a limited run of 50......
'Mammoth/Deer' split EP w/ ManKilled- hellosQuare recordings 2007 ...SOLD OUT...
six ManKilled stunners, brutal drone and punk blast. very lovable noise you know. i give up five tracks of ~scape tinged drift'n'pop and improv processed buzz featuring Wendi from Radarmaker. think meloncholic and glassy......
'Piano Music' 3" - Low Point label 2007 ...$10AUD w/postage...
this new 3" features four extended pieces of processed piano that builds on techniques first shown on 'Vinyl Sketches' while also working textures such as sleigh bells and found sounds for a new sense of composition......
'Sonar Love Songs' album - Cook An Egg Records 2007 ...$15AUD w/postage...
first full length release on French label Cook An Egg (Zelienople, Pefkin, Rory Storm). a collection of seven pieces, beginning with the crackling 'Pre-Nocturne' and the fuzzy thrum of 'Kokoda' before reaching the spacious tones of 'A Simple Discourse' and heading back home again......
'Prepared' 3" (as Pieno) - Curt 2007 ...$8AUD w/postage...
first record under the Pieno guise featuring three prepared guitar works as post-processed by Lawrence English (Room40 label head), M.Rosner and myself. at once alienating, contemplative and heavy on the mind......
'Snapshot 1' - Feral Media 2008
'When We Were Sirens' featured on this compilation for POWWOW in June 2008 alongside pieces by Morning Stalker, Adam Trainer and The Ghost Of 29 Megacycles.......
'Sea Songs, Dead Ends And Sleeping Pills' album- Sound And Fury Records 2008 ...$15AUD w/postage...
a nine track follow-up to my last release Sonar Love Songs featuring bedroom sketches recorded during a year long stay in wollongong in 2006 alongside 'Vinyl Sketches'. features contributions by M.Rösner, William Ryan Fritch (Sole & The Skyrider Band), Machinefabriek, Plinth & Felicity Mangan (Function)........
'In The City' 3" - hellosQuare recordings 2008 ...SOLD OUT...
a companion to 'Sea Songs...' featuring versions by Cleptoclectics (Feral Media), Bracken (Anticon) and Inch-time (Static Caravan) exploring a more rhythmic side to the drifting ambience of my work.......
split CDR with Adam Trainer - Frosty You Haunt Me 2008 ...SOLD OUT...
three pieces working around field recordings, melodica and acoustic guitar recorded on a trip to Bangladesh at the end of 2007 that pairs up quite nicely with Adam's long songform 'Animal Heart (You've Got An)'.......
'In Bed We Trust' album w/ Adrian Klumpes - hellosQuare recordings 2008 ...$20AUD w/postage...
my first duo album with Adrian, formerly of Triosk and Pivot latterly of 3ofmillions. An improvised album of glacial piano, kosmiche guitars and twitchy electronics recorded and edited at our homes.......
:: download releases ::
hey dude, i just listened to the bbc on jazz uplate... u gotta hear that shit.. oh and btw i cant make the sunday social.. sorry dude, ill rock up abit after 5 if u guys are still hanging around.
Thanks for adding me and the kind words! I might add some of my own sounds if I pluck up the courage in the far future. Hope you'll be visiting sydney soon, I really enjoy your work and can't wait to hear your next release. Cheers, Emily
Bro. I'm moving back to C-spot! we'll have to start jamming - watch out! Not sure yet if I can make the gig with Tony on the 20th, in Melb now. I might end up coming at the last minute... Take Care, catch u soon. Cam.
RECORD OF THE MONTH IN UK'S IDJ MAG & FRENCH TSUGI MAGAZINE in 03/2008
FEEDBACK:
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D'julz (Pokerflat): “superb deep music ”
Dj Deep (Deeply Rooted): “Nice old school flavor "while my sequencer gently sleeps" is the one for me”
Federico Molinari (Oslo): “cool record”
IDJ Magazine: “RECORD OF THE MONTH 03/2009”
TSUGI Magazine (France) RECORD OF THE MONTH 03/2009
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"The Ridings draws together strands of guitar and delicate electronics....by embedding lightly sculpted six string textures in a tapestry of field recordings and plugin tweaks".
Includes full length bonus CD of remixes courtesy of Bracken, The Declining Winter, Part Timer, aus, Epic45, Portal, Gareth S Brown, Fieldhead, Glen Shipley, Winter North Atlantic and Yuri Lugovskoy.
Pivot, Topology, Ross Bolleter, Keijzer McGuiness Quintet, Trio Apoplectic, Tom Vincent Quartet, Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band, West End Composers Collective, Panoptique Electrical, Triad, Camilla Hannan, Thembi Soddell & Eamon Sprod, Joel Stern, Shoeb Ahmad & Adrian Klumpes, Austin Benjamin Trio,Way Out West and Ensemble Offspring
Sound Travellers follows on from its successful year with a second round of tours in 2009 travelling to every state in the country. The tours feature artists and ensembles performing sound art/electronica, improvised jazz and contemporary classical music.
To celebrate the richness and diversity of Australian talent we are releasing a Sound Travellers compilation of music and sound featuring artists touring in 2009.
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hey hows going? a little information from NIkO Label.... Our Edition NIkO will anounce a wonderful label show case at cafe independant, Kyoto. comin' this march. 17. 3. 2009 "Deep Listening Kyoto vol.1" with enormous O'clock, Hakobune, JANDEATH, Provoke, SHARP, yuji kondo. thanks for your time and space:) cheers, Edition NIkO-head shotahirama (aka JANDEATH)
