The Orb, Banco de Gaia, Astralasia, Future Sound Of London, Full Moon Scientist, Rhian Sheehan, Boards Of Canada, Pitch Black, Lemon Jelly, Orbital, Sola Rosa, Module, Invader Tron.
Sounds Like
The Orb, Banco De Gaia, Astralasia, classic early 90s ambient, Full Moon Scientist, Rhian Sheehan, Lemon Jelly, Tom Bosley Experience, Stray Theories, Invader Tron
Ambient electronica from Dunedin, New Zealand. Inspired and influenced by the likes of The Orb, Astralasia, Banco De Gaia, Future Sound Of London and a whole host of mid-early 90s ambient trance / dub / chill artists. My debut album "The Hammerhead Nebula" was released in 2006 and is still available. See links below. "Layers of keyboard wash form convection currents through which primitive drum machine rhythms clatter. Spoken vocal snippets introduce galaxial and other themes while a prowling keyboard bass glues things together. Sharkweek pulls back from the brink of chaotic overload to simmer with a repressed mania and the effect is serotonin re-uptake inhibition."
Jacob Connor, NZ Musician Magazine
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MOONRISE OVER KERALA (9:36)
A brand-new track, written specifically for a trancey show I was playing at. I felt like I needed something faster than usual for the occasion, so I wrote this. It's far from being typical trance, hell it probably doesn't even qualify as trance except in terms of BPM, but I like it!
This recording is from the second time I played the song live, it's a particularly psychedelic version.
I'd been wanting to incorporate some Indian instruments into a song after listening to Loop Guru non-stop for about a week, and I'm really pleased with how this came out, just the right mixture of organic dreaminess and electronic lushness.
It's going to be on my moon-themed album due out in about two years.
SIX FEET UNDER THEME (2:54)
Recorded for a compilation called The Box being put out by Canadian label Peppermill Records in June. I had a lot of fun working on this, particularly collecting the samples. Inevitably I now want to watch all six (or is it seven?) seasons of the TV show again.
LAST TRAIN TO SNOWDONIA (6:56)
My most recent track, the title is a deliberate homage to one of my favourite artists and influences, Banco de Gaia.
This song has a lot of personal meaning too - the Snowdonia region of Wales is a place I feel strongly drawn toward. My family come from Wales and I am very keen to visit there one day. The vocals in this song are by my mother, reading a legend about dragons living beneath Mt Snowdon.
For authenticity, the birds and trains in this song were actually recorded in Wales.
FOR ALL TOMORROWS (6:36)
Funky acid-jazzy kinda thing, I'm very proud of this one.
Featuring the talented Paul Young (Retrophonic Funk Machine) on saxophone, Vincent Price on vocals (from a recording he did for the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle), and Te Ohu Paratene - spoken vocals in Maori. Te Ohu, also known as Lyall, reads a traditional karakia which translates as: There is the origin, the taproot, the rootlets
The climbing plants, the growth
There is the forest, the form acquired
The sound, the void, the darkness
To come, was the Maori people
From the skyfather and Earth Mother
This is the beginnings
Of the Universe
This is the beginnings
Of the Universe
ROBOSPACEJESUS (6:00)
This song started life as a remix for my other project, The Tom Bosley Experience. But at some point it took on a life of it's own and became a Sharkweek song. I added some new samples to give it more a typical Sharkweek theme and claimed it as my own. To give credit where it's due, and well-deserved, the fantastic spooky key line is by my TBE partner-in-crime Sean Murgatroyd.
I'm particularly pleased with the way this song combines my love of ambient / downtempo electronica with big crunching rock riffs. Eat yer heart out, Angus Young, you old fart!
GOODNIGHT, KIWI (5:45)
The closing track from my debut album 'The Hammerhead Nebula'. Tranquil and hypnotic, with cicadas recorded one night at my mother's farm in the country. As an aside, the same cicadas would later appear as a loop in the song "Dark Matter", with the pitch lowered so much that they sound like the ping of a submarine radar!
Built around a loop from the Wendyhouse song "Hello Goodnight" with added New Zealand birds and ambient sounds, plus whispered vocals from me.
GARDEN PARTY VIDEO
Here's the video for my song 'Garden Party'. It's pretty low tech and homemade, but I had a lot of fun creating it.
yeah for a little bit. things just been hectic. got new studio setup super nicely..thats been taking up most of time lately..! how was the gig on the weekend (21st)? still keen to do something in july.. i need to escape from t-town for a day or two...boring me too much...trying to write lots of tunes though...man u should check out reason 4...so cool..heaps of updates.. what you been up 2?
Sharkweek...funnily enough the gingerbearded front man u have in ur picture looks rather similar to me...kinda... Anyways.... Couple of gigs this weekend coming for ya's: Also on Saturday night we're playing at Backstage with: Left Or Right, The Tweeks, Made In China, Deft Roots, Soulseller & Campus Watch. Hope to see you out and about. Cheers Osmium
I'm doing okay. Still trying to crack if Paul Mccartney is actually dead. I been wandering aimlessly in circles naked biting my skin off ripping my hair out trying to crack all the backwardmasking codes.
Yeah, that shirt rulz! We picked it up from Real Groovy in Wellington while we were there. It was a little more than we'd usually spend on stuff for him, but I had vouchers. :) Have you heard back from Benet?
Don't feel bad about not getting the snow. I'm sure your turn will come. ;p
The Mojo Cafe down your way is 329 Princes St. They are about three or four weeks away from being open. They are doing the whole works, roastery and food. Should be worth checking out. I don't think they'll have Coke-accino on the menu board though.
when i saw a vagina and then also the virgin mary in a tree branch i was compelled to believe that all, or most, early art was a type media.
not only did i see an image of a person with a halo around their head in the branch shooting up vertically with leaves sprouting all around the top, but also i was reminded of how this great feminine icon of history also looks a bit like someone's clit.
immidiately i thought of horny old men, and what those with money would do with it back in ancient times when this specific icon was invented.
media controls your thoughts and your feelings and your behaviors the same way a deep sense of dogma can influence the same details. partly because religious believe is tied hand in hand with the media, in all it's forms, modern, and ancient.
the majority of art that was survivable to our times was
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