Annie, when not trying to find out what noises a milk bottle can make, plays flute, sax and clarinet and creates wistfully twisted lyrics. Glenda, if not playing the bass, loves to manipulate noise and mess with off-centred and otherwise effected records as well as heavily-treated, sampled and looped guitars and such like. Nick is essentially a drummer who thinks the whole world is a drumkit; he also likes to explore unlikely sound sources usually involving the juxtaposition of household objects and is often seen with his trusty dictaphone to hand. Will basically likes hitting things with varying degrees of violence: sometimes suspended gearbox housings but more normally just a guitar or a keyboard. (We are also sometimes blessed with the contributions of others; most notably Phony Reality on "excerpts" and "T50 + 1", and Pragito/Steve Higgins on "Relentless").
Annie Q (Devon), Glenda Pescado (West Wales), Nick Danger (Surrey) and Will Whitney (Devon) come together once or twice a year to play and record as The Surf Messengers. We've been playing together as this combo for over 10 years now and have an understanding that allows us to improvise creatively in many different set-ups: sometimes as a straight beat combo; sometimes as a experimental cell; but, more often than not, as a combination of these. All the music is created without prior discussion. We have a deep love of the lo-tech, a high pain threshold and an absolute inability to take ourselves too seriously.
Most recent releases.
CD
- "LOVEST" -
(1hour 13 mins.) - very special limited edition (400 copies)
Released 2009 by RAIG in Moscow £13.00 / $18.00 available at RAIG and c is for dog
CD - Excerpts
from a 24hr performance - (1hour
13mins.)
Released
2005 £8.00/€15.00 (incl. P&P)
Listen to "Attack
the target!" from this album
For further info., and more free downloads go to c is for dog
To buy or download this CD online, go to cd baby
GREETINGS... OUR FIRST FIVE STAR REVIEW FROM USA Sendelica: The Girl From The Future Who Lit Up The Sky With Golden Worlds
The instrumental outfit from Wales Sendelica returns with a fabulous collection of seven face melting jams on their brand new offering for RAIG called The Girl From The Future Who Lit Up The Sky With Golden Worlds. For this new disc the two principal members, Pete Bingham (guitars, electronics) and Glenda Pescado (bass) have enlisted two Boston area musicians Geoff Chase (drums) and Ed Guild (electronics) to join them on their lengthy, astral excursions. Kicking off with a brief snippet of sampled, ethic tinged female vocals "Standing On The Edge" quickly shifts into overdrive as Bingham slashes out a mammoth swath of thick power chords, as bursts of psychedelic sounding electronics swirl around his extended solos. His guitar lets out an extended run of feedback at the tail end of the track before seamlessly segueing directly into the metallic, twelve minute crunch of "Manhole Of The Universe". Bingham tears off solo after solo.... FOR FULL REVIEW GO TO... http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=7884
OUT on June 05, 2009 - "One listen to this musical outfit from Southern Russia known as Vespero was all it took to make me begin thinking about the great things that must be happening in Russia…" - by Ryan Sparks, Sea Of Tranquility.
RAIG is proud to announce Vespero "Surpassing All Kings" (R041, CD), the second studio album by psychedelic/progressive/space rock band from Astrakhan.
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW ON RAIG RECORDS.......... “THE GIRL FROM THE FUTURE WHO LIT UP THE SKY WITH GOLDEN WORDS”
OUT NOW OUT NOW OUT NOW
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FULL T/L: STANDING ON THE EDGE – MANHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE – HAZELNUT – DARK DISKO – THE GIRL FROM THE FUTURE – GLORY BEE – SEVERAL SPECIES OF FURRY HUMANS GATHERED TOGETHER IN A CAVE GROVING LIKE GROOVY PICTS........... TWO TEASER TRACKS UP ON OUR MYSPACE PAGE… GO LISTEN!!
THE GIRL FROM THE FUTURE CD £10.00 INCLUDING POST/PACK TO ANYWHERE IN WORLD
Also will be available as a limited edition (100 copies) which come as a collectable CD+DVD edition with the "SleepWalker Fever" movie by Grant Wakefield. DVD: 8 tracks - 51 min........
THE GIRL FROM THE FUTURE LTD EDT CD WITH BONUS SLEEPWALKER FEVER DVD ONLY 100 COPIES... FIRST COME FIRST SERVED... £15.00 INC POST/PACK TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
ALSO A FEW COPIES OF SPACEMAN BUBBLEGUM ALBUM LEFT IN STOCK............
SPACEMAN BUBBLEGUM AND OTHER WEIRD TALES FROM THE MERCURY MIND CD £10.00 INC POST/PACK TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD
LAUNCH NIGHT AT QUEENS HALL, NARBERTH APRIL 24TH LOVE AND PEACE SENDELICA -X-
The Electro Acoustic Spring Zither installation as used in Isomorphism II & III from the re - mastered album "......Further Observations" to be released soon
Sonic Surgeon said: "Epopopoï popoï, popopopoï popoï, io io, ito ito"... "Tiotiotiotiotiotiotiotio"... "Trioto trioto totobrix"... "deuro deuro deuro deuro"... "Torotorotorotorotix"... "Kikkabau kikkabau"... "Torotorotorolililix"... One of these days you might need a Sonic refreshing.
