My first two albums are now available on limited edition CDs 500 of each:
Eyed Side
NonSilence & Beats Under Heat
Prices, including postage and tax, are:
AU$17.50 for one, or AU$25 for both.
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Please send purchase requests to:
info [at] umrecords [dot] com
Or call +61 (0) 423 497 357
Influences
Bill Laswell, Charles Mingus, Art of Noise, Tricky, MC 900ft Jesus, John Frusciante, Mick Harris, Techno Animal, Public Enemy, Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, Sly and Robbie, The Dust Brothers, Manu Chao, Bjork, Nina Simone, Howie B, DJ Krush, Brian Eno, Susumu Yakota, Painkiller, Moloko, The Future Sound of London, Divination, Massive Attack, Sonic Youth, Jean Michel Jarre, Aphex Twin, Helmet, Peter Tosh, The Beatles, Scorn, Miles Davis, Sepultura, The Necks, Mad Professor, Eurythmics, Music Vs Physics, Duke Ellington, Chico Hamilton, Plaid, Gabor Szabo, Ministry, Pink Floyd, Gotan Project, Boards of Canada, Black Sabbath, Orishas, Midget, Morganics, Beasts of Burban, The Herd, Black Uhuru, Linton Kwesi Johnstone, Run DMC, Harold Budd ,John Coltrain, Front End Loader, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Scratch Perry, The Police......the sound of the wind, engines, birds, water moving, breathing, eating, the sensation of skin on skin, the taste of bitter chocolate, black sesame, Tensegrity, Qi Gung, riding bicycles, dancing, Dr Who, Monkey Magic....
Sounds Like
Video for "I've Seen" from "Ciudades del Alma"
A Contact Improvisation dance to "Luz de la Mente" from the forthcoming album "Ciudades del Alma".
New video for "I've Seen" check it out below left.
New tune "Falling twigs" with a Creative Commons licence!
Benn DeMole - Composer
I was born with a fascination for the sonic world. After a childhood playing wind instruments (recorder, flute, & didgeridoo) and listening to the radio and the music collections of my parents and older brother I started working as an Audio Engineer and a Composer with computers. I have an interest in the mix of acoustic/traditional instruments with sounds generated by technology. Also in sampling sounds from the real world and manipulating them with machines.
In 1997 & 1998 I composed my first two discs: Eyed Side & NonSilence And Beats Under Heat. The former, Eyed Side, has dark poetry and sounds, rhythms & textures from a strange future past. The later,NonSilence And Beats Under Heat, was the first in a series focusing in on music ambient, electro-acoustic, downbeat, and experimental music, without words, and has recently been reviewed in Cyclic Defrost"...Evocative ambience that soothes despite its comparatively dark textural palette...".
In 2002 I went on a journey to South America. After some months travelling through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia & Argentina I settled in Buenos Aires for 4 months. It was there that I composed most of Ciudades del Alma (Cities of the Soul) which has influences from HipHop, Tango, Electro, and the culture of the Incas. Ciudades del Alma was finished in 2005 when I returned again to Buenos Aires and lived there for most of the year, during which time I also studied composition and worked with local musicians.
Other pieces composed between 2000 & 2005 were selected to form Volumes 2 & 4 of NonSilence and Beats Under Heat and were composed in a variety of locations including Paris, Venice, Buenos Aires, Sydney and Eden.
Currently I'm living in Sydney composing new works, both alone and with the ambient hiphop duo Assemblage Point. I am also setting up an independent record label Um Records and am involved in a physical theatre troop Strings Attached. Last year I completed my sixth? album The Music for The Foreign Installation which is the soundtrack to the first production of Strings Attached and can be purchased online at Um Records.
Recent compositions include the soundtrack for a dance performance by the Pork Collective at The Great Escape Festival and special song for the anti-nuclear power/uranium mining compilation call Turning the Tide that was composed entirely using the voices of Aboriginal Elders talking on the about the issues.
I've finished work on "The Experiment" a new production by Strings Attached, we had two seasons, and I did the soundtrack both music and sound design as well as performing in it.
The Tango Saloon play the 'Gypsy Tango Party' next Thursday 2nd October at The Factory, with The Barons Of Tang (Melbourne) and On The Stoop. Also, email thetangosaloon@hotmail.com to receive details of our Secret Halloween Gig on October 31.
hi benn. thanks for reaching out. you, christian and a.p have popped into my mind many times. have been non stop travelling this year and based in india until i got too pregnant. i am now into my 7th month and my belly is huge! we have connected with a very earthy, cool midwife. excited to experience the primal intuitive state of birthing and to meet this baby late nov/early dec. will post pics. lots of love is there. a
Thanks for the kind words - much appreciated. Sorry it's taken so long to reply - been moving house (twice!)... shattered and I really need some sleep before I crumble away in a corner somewhere...
Hope you liked the free download on the myspace page. Take care. Thanks again. Mike
Nice to see you! Sorry to have missed another gig! You guys seem busy.... isn't it great? :) Better to be making art than landfill. Big Hello from Newcastle! L
Hello. The new EP from daily misconceptions; "if i hug your sweaters will they get their colour back?" is now available for free download at Mimi. Enjoy and share it with your family, friends and lover(s).
Hey Benn, hope that this finds you well! We have just posted our first video. It's fantastically spooky. Check it out when you get the chance. All the best! L
