Shoosh is a 3 piece group consisting of Ed Drury (Guitars, Composition), Neil Carlill (Lyrics, Vocals) and Craig Murphy (Synths, Programming). 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 – 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 – 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 – Craig Murphy is a musician, composer and producer of experimental music and a multimedia artist working with abstract music videos. Having established the rising Herb Recordings imprint in his native Scotland, Murphy’s own output resembles that of a musical odyssey. An obsession with Frank Zappa has seen to a fascination with experimentation and Murphy’s 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, his audio-visual project Weird Fields, to his recent ambient outlet ch.pm. Murphy’s distinctive sound is often abstract, yet retains a rich, melodic and emotional edge.
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’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
SWARM Records est fier de présenter la toute première édition de Jérôme Sevrette aka Photographique: Commodore (série de photos): 60 pages, format 230x160, quadri, accompagné d'un texte inédit de Danielle Robert-Guédon (avec traduction anglaise).
Ce tirage, limité à 200 exemplaires, sera numéroté et signé par l'auteur. La date de sortie officielle est le 27 Juin 2008 dans le cadre des Estivales Photographiques du Trégor 2008 qui aura lieu du 28 juin au 27 septembre à la galerie de L'Imagerie, Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor).
Le vernissage de l'exposition de Jérôme est le 28 Juin à 18h30.
Chaque exemplaire sera vendu au prix de 20€.
Contactez-moi pour réserver et commander, soit sur notre page, soit sur l'adresse e-mail seb@swarm-records.com
Frais de port offerts (France).
A très bientôt, ici ou à Lannion, Sébastien.
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English version:
SWARM Records is proud to present the first edition of Jérôme Sevrette aka Photographique: Commodore: 60 pages, 230x160mm, color, coming with an exclusive text from Danielle Robert-Guédon (with english version).
This is a limited edition of 200 books. 20 € each, numbered and signed by the author.
The official release is on June the 27th for the Summer Photographic festival of Tregor (France).
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for more info on postage costs, please let me know your location.
The afternoon will kick off with workshops from Samba Sene in the art of drumming African rhythmic beats. As the evening draws, find solace in a good ale, fine folk music and acoustic indie from Comradedown, Randan Discotheque and The City Riots!
8 squid for the Full Day folks including the African Instrument Workshops, 4 squid for the Evening Pass, tickets available from me and Sloans in the not too distant future...
For many years, I ran the projector at the Vitascope Hall movie theater and one evening while I was threading the second reel, lightning struck the flagpole outside. A huge crash ensued, the impact of which practically threw my assistants over the balcony. As it happens, the film that was playing, Valley of the Gwangi, had Mustafio as a character, and the actor playing me affected a perfect pause after the crash before delivering the next line. The audience was both exhilarated and relieved. After, all of us sat around rollicking with laughter, forgetting about the rest of the movie, let alone the scene.
The lady asked to speak to Rizzo. I said, "Baby, maybe it was because the last time I was caught conjugating a verb on the hygiene exam, all the refreshments were gone." Next I had to deliver a pie to Ravi Shankar who is a reliable tipper. This was verified in the newspaper about the rockets going off; how every hit TV show has one star who does everything.
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Hello Shoosh! Much respect! Some short info... - - - *post-idm, post-post-idm & post-post-whatever* - - - The FREE digital compilation 'BIRDS FOR THE PEOPLE' is OUT NOW and AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD from Segment Records web site www.segmenter.com - - - Thank you for sharing SPACE with us! Peace!
