Shoosh is a 3 piece group consisting of Ed Drury (Guitars), Craig Murphy (Synths) & Neil Carlill (Lyrics, Vocals). Their sound is a unique blend of modern ambient music, American folk influenced acoustic guitar and surreal, dadaist lyrics delivered in a highly distinctive and thoroughly compelling style.
Group Members
Neil Carlill is a poet, songwriter, vocalist, composer and musician who is currently in the band Vedette. He was also a founder member and the lead singer with alternative/experimental bands Delicatessen (Rough Trade/Big Life) and Lodger (Island). Neil is heavily influenced by the surrealism and dadaism of the early 20th century and this is a regular theme in his work.
Ed Drury is a composer and multi instrumentalist who writes music for film and television. He plays in the region of 60 instruments including members of the woodwind, brass, strings and percussion sections and in his spare time he performs, teaches and writes about the Australian Didgeridoo. Ed has featured on countless albums over the years by literally hundreds of artists from around the globe.
Craig Murphy is a musician, composer and producer of experimental music and a multimedia artist working with abstract music videos. His output resembles that of a musical odyssey where an obsession with Frank Zappa has seen to a fascination with experimentation and his many projects span several genres. From the mechanistic, yet poignant electronica of Solipsism, his electro-psychedelic band shoosh with Neil Carlill and multi-instrumentalist Ed Drury, to his recent ambient outlet ch.pm. Murphy's distinctive sound is often abstract, yet retains a rich, melodic and emotional edge.
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As
winter is fading away, giving way to new life and new experiences, so
too is the overall tune of everything around us. There’s something
about spring that brings out the best in people, so it’s suitable to
have music that fits this positive aura. Shoosh specialize in a strange mix of acoustic guitar, distorted synths and hopeful ambiance....With these samples of what’s to come from this trio, I’m left hopefully waiting. Not to be blown away, because that’s not what Shoosh tries to accomplish, but rather to be taken on a journey. If they are able to evoke so much day dreaming with just two songs, I can only imagine what they will do with an hour of our time. The Silent Ballet
Orpheum Circuit is a sweltering sheet of low flying beauty Igloo Mag
Swirling synths
Picked guitar and then left.
Soundscapes of uncomfortable beauty
Pulses
Dadaist in theory and practice
Beat with no beat, you dig.
The spoken word unspoken, the synthesis of nature formed and then de-con-struct-ed.
Drone…and on. The sadness of a modulating tone and the pleasure in its repetition.
Explain.
SOUND!!!
Beautiful in its scope, majestic in its sweep yet personal and claustrophobic.
Names: Godspeed, you black Emperor. Explosions in the sky. Fennesz. Yet not quite.
An album of outstanding music. That should be heard by all fellow travellers.
Enjoy.
I did. Is This Music?
"Shoosh is a trio of musicians, combining guitars and
Americana-influenced songwriting with all manner of perplexing
electronic programming and treatments. 'Snake Eyes' is a little like
Sparklehorse or perhaps Benoit Pioulard - all distorted and twisted
out of shape, with a squeaky, obfuscated vocal in place to remind you
that you're listening to an actual song rather than the Fennesz-influenced
soundscape it might otherwise resemble. The vocal will almost
certainly take some getting used to in fact, but once you're
accustomed to the sheer oddness of Neil Carlill's delivery (imagine a
cross between Dose One and Mark E Smith) there's an awful lot to like
about this record - in a world crammed with electronically treated
songwriting efforts, Orpheum Circuit somehow manages to sound like
it's really out there on its own."Boomkat
Shoosh, the trio of Ed Drury, Neil Carlill and Craig Murphy, have a different approach to their music. More guitar-based than Cheju, Shoosh features a love-it-or-hate-it vocal style. Their track “Elastic Soil” is predominantly guitar-based but also features some soaring electronic textures underneath it all. Their second track, “Come in from the Cold,” is weirder still vocally and features shimmering electronic swirls and acoustic guitar. The first of their tracks sounds like Bowie meets Genesis P Orridge while the second is more like Dylan; both sound like drug-addled psychedelic folk - uniquely blissed out weird psychedelic folk excursions. Igloomag
Shoosh are a different proposition altogether, combining the talents of Craig Murphy (synths, programming), multi-instrumentalist Ed Drury and former Delicatessen frontman Neil Carlill, who provides rather unique vocals. A starlit chime introduces “Elastic Soil” but will not prepare the listener for the intergalactic journey they are about to embark on. Murphy’s spectral drones provide the template for Drury to weave a beautiful Spanish guitar arrangement atop, while Carlill delivers his indecipherable yet strangely alluring vocals. Spell-bindingly inventive, shoosh construct an exclusive brand of ambient, space-folk. Reverb Mag
Shoosh present a far folksier prospect, first with the digitised folk of 'Elastic Soil' - which avoids all that Tunng-style folktronica business thanks to its strained and unhinged vocal - and the rather lovely 'Come In From The Cold', another swirl of guitars, screeching synthesis and that strangely compelling, warped voice. Boomkat
Shoosh’s ghostly alluring ‘elastic soil’ is an off centred though numbingly beautiful work of ethereal psych-ambi-folk, pining celestial sheens, crooked and dust ridden stumbling acoustic flamenco strums serve as deliciously spectral montages underpinning the ether driven wandering vocal mantras - all at once hazy and disquieting though magically omnipresent the individual parts coalesce and caress like heavenly apparitions weaving in and out of view imagining Animal Collective centre stage in a celestial gunfight setting amid supernatural serenades sourced from Neil Young’s ‘eldorado’. Losing Today
While other shoosh compositions come across like a space-age version of Pink Floyd, “Elastic Soil” finds them exploring a different plain altogether.
Carlill’s vocals immediately pique the interest with its multi-tracked and warped out of shape tone. These are cushioned by a galaxy of spectral drones and superb Spanish guitar work to create this highly inventive piece of music.
Angry Ape
Shoosh's Elastic Soil features flamenco guitar and woozy, processed vocals stumbling around in a sweetly acrid haze. The Wire
Of more interest, I thought, was the music of Shoosh, a three piece group of Ed Drury (guitars), Neil Carlill (vocals and lyrics) and Craig Murphy (synth, programming). In 'Elastic Soil' they sound like an electronic version of Current 93, with a strong similarity in the vocal region. In 'Come In From The Cold' things turn even more down and moody, with sparse electronics, ending in total ambiance. Vital Weekly
Shoosh is definitely more leftfield. Their two tracks explore a psychedelic world. ‘Elastic Soil’ begins with Spanish guitar before some warped vocals convey an evening of stoned abandon in Madrid. Leonard's Lair
The guitars are Iberian and the wooze is warm and writhes like animated spaghetti. It's quite a nifty little late night stoner track, phased vox n all, would be very much at home on any number of old Tyrannosaurus Rex albums.
IS IT ANY GOOD? Yeah, it wont be featured on a chart show near you, but that's not the point, is it? Unpeeled
2 nouveaux clips sur notre page ("Islande" et "rencontre avec un volcan"; et vous pouvez telecharger "Islande" gratuitement.
à plus.
chà des hautes alpes
2 new video clip on our page ("Islande" and "recontre avec un volcan"); and you can download "Islande", and it's free! see you! chà from the french moutains.
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