Spoonbill aka Jim Moynihan
VJ's: Dropbear and DJAK
Guest musicians:
Bryson Mulholland: rhodes piano, flute.
Eden Altman: guitar, bass.
Jack Moynihan: guitar, bass.
Aurora Kurth: vocals.
Influences
Amon Tobin, BT, Prefuse 73, Tipper, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Bonobo, Aphex Twin, Four tet, EdiT, Kid Koala, Cinematic Orchestra, President Schnitzel Head, The Glitch Mob, Tipsey, Hermitude, Dj krush, The Books, Stock Hausen and Walkman, Dummy Run.
Sounds Like
... an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend.
Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Spoonbill takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.
3RD SPOONBILL ALBUM ::: ZOOMORPHIC release date: 14th March 2009
After nearly two years of questing through the audio underworld, wrestling crocodile-headed samplers and taming fire-breathing speaker stacks, Spoonbill has returned to the earth's surface.
His message: Zoomorphic, a shapeshifting sonic celebration of Spoonbillism. Zoomorphic is set to earn Australia's most unique aural oracle thousands of fresh converts across the globe.
This time around, Spoonbill's anarchic, quirk-funk, glitched-up aesthetic has been forensically finessed like never before, sculpted to a well-bodied medley of groove-based sound art.
The Zoomorphic experience is crafted from an intricate web of edited studio recordings of exceptional musos melded with found sounds, foley folly and synthesised materials, much of which was captured while recently touring across US, Canada, Europe & UK.
Squishy pulsating bass lines carpet the undergrowth, while dirty squelchy synth licks frolic in a warped menagerie of neurotic cyborgs, rattlesnakes, sirens, champagne froth, fireworks and crushed eggshells. The jamboree coalesces to form a single groove shrieking beat-creature, covered with feathers, scales, bells and whistles.
Zoomorphic is a diverse musical mutant for late-night dancefloors, introspective train-rides, and everything in between. This fresh batch of Spoonytunes will captivate fans of glitch-hop, IDM, breaks, psychedelic electronica, folktronica, dubstep, trip-hop and more – but the Spoonbill's mighty call can't be pigeon-holed into any single genre. Some folk call it “vaudeville electronica”, responding to the jovial carnival feel like circus clowns with lobsters in their pants.
...Omelette Presents ~ Gourmet Scavenger ~ VA album compiled by Spoonbill... release date: 14th June 2008
Whip out the silverware and throw down a nice table cloth for Gourmet Scavenger, the new continent hopping electronica compilation from Australia's pioneering Omelette Records.
A selection of lobe smacking dishes, Scavenger's all natural ingredients range from downtempo electronica to folktronica, glitchhop to leftfield hip hop, brokenbeat to jazz groove, plus a few spices you'll have a hard time putting your finger on. Plucking treats from Australia's shores, to those of America, UK, Austria and France, Gourmet Scavenger offers one of those rare compilations that appeals because it's so consistently good and yet remains so consistently inventive.
No boring beats, no Mono Soundium Glutamates, no artificial loop preservatives, just pure, cutting edge tunes from around the globe.
...Omelette's Gourmet Chefs:... Hailed from France - Wax Tailor and Frank Riggio; From Austria - Raffael Francis; From the US - VibeSquaD; from the UK - Lotek (Ninja Tune/Big Dadda) and from Australia; Spoonbill, Hermitude, Monkeymarc (Combat Wombat), Soup (Miso), Eden Altman, Welcome Dear Friend (Velure), Alpha Channel, Sensient (Zenon Records), Niceface and the Sunwrae Ensemble.
...Spoonbills 2nd album - Nestegg...
release date: 24th March 2007
Propelled by the massive response from Australian and international audiences, and the successful release of his debut album Megafauna, Melbourne-based electronic producer Spoonbill lays his anticipated second album: Nestegg.
Spoonbill's latest call from the wild is both cerebral sonic entertainment and smoothly-beaten groove, coming together as a heavily edited fusion of live recorded instrumentation and fabricated electronica. From antique tones to genre-warping sound art, Nestegg is a mastery of chaos. Enticing listeners with its smooth, shiny shell of downtempo tunes, Nestegg breaks open to reveal a thick and fast-flowing yolk of intricate beat chemistry.
...Spoonbills debut album Megafauna... release date: 25th June 2005
Megafauna is an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend. From its richly textured electronic centre to the live licks around its jazzier edges, Megafauna celebrates and pokes fun at colloquial Australiana.
Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Megafauna takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with AM talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.
Hello all, this will be our final release of 2009, and a great way to end the year... Pinklogik asked 10 artists and friends to remix her entire "Learning To Trust Higher Frequencies" album and what an eclectic and stunningly produced work this is. Each track has its own feel, thanks to the diverse range of artists involved in the project. A shimmering journey through ambient colours, broken beats, sweet melodies, a little bit of quantum physics, and is one hell of a trip....
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Also from S27...
[S27-030] MIN-Y-LLAN : Dark Days (Downtempo, Ambient)
We are fast approaching the last days of 2009, so what better way to celebrate than this release from Welshman "Min-Y-Llan" who offers us this collection of atmospheric ambient pieces, the melodies within are dark and cavernous, being the perfect listening for the walk home on a frozen winters evening. Each track has a very melancholic feel as if looking towards a future that isn't as bright as we hope for, but nevertheless are powerless to escape. Free download!
Hey Spoonbill! : ) “Watch your thoughts, for they become words; watch your words, for they become actions; watch your actions, for they become habits; watch your habits, for they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny." ~ Mahatma Ghandi”
Anyway time for a update!
2 New tunes out now ('Time' & 'Just Foe One Moment') & you can
now download them for FREE! just click on the widget & away you go!
Or buy direct, cheaper. Send payment through Paypal to steve.13@live.co.uk. All 3 tracks are £2.50. If you desire singular tracks then they are £0.89 (send separate email to same address with desired tracks)
It will be available from other sites soon but due to a distribution error it has been delayed.
It's going to be a monster four band pile up on highway 666 as Vultures of Venus crash into the Birmingham on Thursday the 3rd of ..heir debut LP which is now available through I-Tunes has been receiving strong support and favorable reviews from local radio RRR, PBS and Syn Fm. It will also be available in hard copy on the night. This gig is gonna be fun, fun, fun on the Smith st autobahn. Armed with big rock riffs and blazing electrified keys this is the Vultures first show since their sellout LP Launch. This is a band with a plan; and that plan is to make you do the Can Can. Joining them on the night is Mirrorhouse Antics whos live show is a cross between the Arctic Monkeys and The Stooges. They have just released their debut album, recorded at Bakehouse by Mikey from Eddie Current Suppression Ring. Dan Webb's 60's styled Hammond infused insanity is gonna be something to look out for as well as the 'Wise Flys' : they'll make you laugh they'll make you cry, they'll make you laugh about crying. And don't forget to look out for the crazy clown pinyada filled with burning flesh and give away fun toys for the kids. This is a B.Y.O "leotard friendly event ". So pour yourself into your favorite and come on down !!!
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Dear friends,
I'm happy to announce that my new album "Coming home" is available since nov. 6th 2009 as an exclusive bonus-track edition at iTunes and as a limited CD edition at Amazon.
Please check out my new tracks.
Online Now!
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