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Upcoming gigs:
** Sunday 13 July
supporting Fritz hauser (Switzerland) & Speak Percussion
Maximum Arousal, @ Toff In Town, Melbourne, starts 8:30pm
** Saturday 9 August
supporting Green Beret (CD launch)
Sabbatical, @ After Dark Bar, High St Northcote.
** Please Get Up On 8 CD by Zan Hoffman is out now, featuring remixes of artists including Undecisive God.
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** Live duo with Zac Keiller, Tuesday 6 November, Bar Open, Brunswick st, Fitzroy (as part of the String Theory CD launch).
** Smell The Stench does it again with another massive noise compilation for free download, featuring another new Undecisive God track.
** New limited edition mini CD out (52 copies with handmade covers) Duos for guitar and broken records. Hear one of the tracks "Insomnia 1" at the My Spazz page.
** I will be playing at Newcastle's Electrofringe Festival this year. Sunday 30th September, from 5pm, outdoors at Civic Park, with a host of others. See the Electrofringe website
** New track on the String Theory double CD - out now on Dreamland.
** First gig for a while, supporting the awesome Wall of E Electric Guitar Ensemble (not to be missed, this one), along with Tim Catlin, JK Fuller and Seth Rees for a guitar-themed night at Carni, 60 High St, Preston, Sunday 19 August - $10.
** New track on the massive Smell The Stench 5 CD set, download the whole thing here
** My 2005 collaboration with Scott Sinclair "With Doors Open" is now available for free download, courtesy of Half/Theory, who described it as:
Opening with a squall of shrieking and scraping before rising into a glorious cacophony of freefalling noise, With Doors Open builds in tension and intensity before eventually opening out into soothing, drifting territory. Here too though, things are unsettled, never allowed to become narcoleptic, with dissonance hovering quietly in the background, gently nudging the listener, but never breaking them totally out of reverie.
Despite their 6-string origins, for the most part sounds here elude easy identification, there's a willingness to bust out some gnarly axe moves, unlike most experimental guitar music. Appropriately enough, this fearlessness reaches its zenith and yields it greatest fruit on the album's title track (featuring Joe Musgrove of Biffplex) - a maximalist mantra of chromatic noise blur, given wings by a towering psychedelic 'solo', cutting through the noise like light beams through smoke.
** Some new Undecisive God tracks will appear on upcoming compilation releases by Smell The Stench & Dreamland Recordings.
Recently I've begun notating new works for groups of guitarists:
Two Guitar Trios - these pieces will be performed live by the West Footscray Community String Band (featuring Chris Smith, Justin Fuller, Barnaby Oliver & myself) at:
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Defenders of the Axe #3
Loop Bar
Myers Place, Melbourne
Wednesday 25 Oct 2006
Here are some pictures of the performance by Andrew Cosgriff
** A new CD by Bokor features myself playing guitar on 2 tracks.
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** New release from UG-related project Bite The Capsicum. Here is a preview track Dreaming in French.
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** Tuesday January 31 - 8pm , at LOOP (23 Myers Place, Melbourne, will host the first of a series of guitar-orientated events called Defenders of the Axe. I will be playing a duo with Bokor to kick off the night. Also featured will be Ben Frost, North Atlantic & Three Month Sunset.
There has since been a web page uploaded by Dreamland Records with photos and audio from the night.
There was also a limited edition compilation CD made for the night, with each artist contributing a track. I have a handful of copies you can order or trade
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** New CD out now - Eccentricites. This represents recent ground covered over the past 12 months or so with mostly live to PC recordings with no overdubs.
"Calculator", the only non-guitar track, is a noisy cut-up of voice samples provided by Greg Wadley (New Waver, Hi-God People). "Little Pieces for Guitar" explores some guitar techniques unhindered by any effects, but relying simply upon very physical playing of the guitar with hands, fingernails, slide, arms, etc. Both "The Convention of Time" and "Music that writes Itself" use the DD6 digital delay pedal in a live context to gradually build up increasing structure of guitar loops that are then improvised over, while "Home Music: Quiet Day" & "Headless" use multi-tracking to create atmospheric pieces intended to be listened to in specific settings as detailed on the CD cover.
Upcoming shows:
* The Wall of E Electric Guitar Ensemble presents The Story Of E (featuring me and 16 other guitarists).
'a theatrical exploration of 82.41hz and related frequencies. 17 electric guitarists take you through the emotional range of soaring highs and mysterious depths hidden within perhaps the most basic element of rock music. Composed and directed by Barnaby Oliver.'
Performance dates: October 1st and 2nd, 7.30 pm Venue: The Lithuanian Club Theatre, North Melbourne (part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival)
* Sticks + Tones - improvised music with 3 drummers and 4 others in 2 sets.
Saturday 1 October, from 10:30pm, Pony, 68 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
Now available is the Headless mp3/CDEP, for free download or purchase on CDR.