Will Cruttenden - Basses, Touch Guitar, Vocals, other noises.
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King Crimson, Spike Jones, TU, KTU, Trey Gunn, Tuner, Police, Squeeze, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Robert Fripp, Joni Mitchell, Bartok, Markus Reuter, Bach, Mahler, Centrozoon, Gary Willis, Sting, Branford Marsalis, Steely Dan, Arvo Pärt, lots and lots of others.
Since getting his hands on an early cassette recorder Will Cruttenden has been playing with music and other sounds. A trip to New York in 1981 inspired him, with friend David Thomas, as ‘Sharpsound’ to create a surreal music and comedy outfit which surprised audiences and, frequently, themselves. Exploding ukuleles, playing tiny synths with their feet and deconstructing blues songs to baffled and sometimes hostile audiences took its toll though. David gave up the giddy life of performing while Will concentrated on playing in a string of increasingly mainstream bands.
Through the following decades Will continued creating odd, unlikeable sound experiments while making albums of pop music and playing in successful local covers bands and unsuccessful original ones. In the late nineties he took on the Spingere name and produced three unreleased albums (‘Spingere’, ‘Red Dome Flake’ and ‘Smell the Cheese’) before finally plucking up the courage to let the fourth one out into the world. A year of incidents with ‘neighbours from hell’ provided the emotional triggers and sound samples for the album Coffee-Housing, which is now available on iTunes and many other download sites.
Will has just completed the new Spingere album, 'Perfetc' which is now available on Musiczeit. There will also be a way to buy it as an actual CD, but we're still working on that.
Another Spingere project was taking part in the RPM Challenge - to complete an album in February. Phew! Well, it's complete and called 'The Best Way Out is Always Through'. This too will become available to download sometime in 'the future'.
Will currently plays bass and sings with Oxford based bands Soul Beaver and Bridge Street. He’s also working as a touch guitarist/bassist/singer/critic on a variety of new music projects and is looking forward to performing a set of part improvised, part composed music as soon as he finds the time. He can be heard pontificating on the audio commentary for the Centrozoon album 'Lovefield'. Will's touch guitar is made by Mark Warr.
Coffee-Housing is currently available on iTunes and Perfetc can be found here.
I really like "Errogenous", it has a sharp melancholy mood. I really like your work. I wish I had a touch guitar, maybe some day I will have one. Any way cool stuff, good "Dervish" remix too.
It's really, really a strong piece! I will try... and the borrowed theme came from Scott's laptop he borrows from his wife (who borrows from her school) with Garageband loaded! So I gotta get Scott back over here to do it justice!
Hi Spingere, Alien Graffiti is happy to invite you to listen to the #2 song of the "Lyrics-to-Song" project. This song has been created around the lyrics written by Jamie Watson and we hope you'll enjoy listening to our song!
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Hi Spingere, do you remember that last month I started the "Lyrics-to-Song" project and promised my friends on MySpace to write and record a song based on their lyrics?
Today I want to keep my promise with the first song of the Alien Graffiti "Lyrics-to-Song" project. The lyrics have been written by my friend Tiffanie Stevenson and we both hope you'll like our song!
Crazy Hat (by Tiffanie Stevenson and Alien Graffiti)
Thanks to all friends of Alien Graffiti for all the wonderful and inspiring lyrics posted!!!
If you don't remember what this project is all about, please see my blog titled "Your Lyrics + My Music = OUR SONG (no joke)!". And if you want Alien Graffiti to continue working on the "Lyrics-to-Song" project, drop me a comment or message.
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