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First things first: Tristan has formed a band, The Crystal City Aviators, and that's where a large portion of the action is. The Tristan Haze material used to be on that account, but now it's here, with lower viewing statistics, making me look less popular...
Born in 1988 in under the pseudonym Tristan Jamison Grotvedt, Haze has been making up songs since he was about five. Around the middle of a patchy career as a highschool student, he discovered The Beatles. This was of considerable importance, and led to many further discoveries. Despite that band's liberal attitude to sense-making in lyrics, it took Tristan some years to escape the literal-mindedness of his juvenile songwriting. But he did.
His and Direz's admixture of melodic and lyrical enlightenment with filthy prog bass has been inflicted upon Sydney audiences for the last couple of years, and now upon bits of plastic, with the release of the Signals EP. Do yourself a favour.
Tristan is also a philosopher, and took a degree in the subject from the University of Sydney in 2008. He is a disciple of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was active in the first half of the twentieth century. There's no need to worry about any of that, though.
Signals is available here for AU$9.95, and from Tristan or Direz in person at an alluringly lower cost. It is available electronically through iTunes, LimeWire and others. Also, selected tracks are FREE at...
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