shoeb ahmad : guitars (electric, acoustic, prepared electric) :: processing :: laptop :: keys :: voice :: field recordings etc etc etc...joined by - peter hollo : cello :: laptop (live/recordings) // evan dorrian : drum kit :: radio noise (live/recordings) // wendi graham : voice :: glockenspiel (live/recordings) // m.rosner : field recordings :: processing (recordings)
Influences
Bark Psychosis, My Bloody Valentine, Low,June Of 44, Neil Finn, Crowded House, Oren Ambarchi, Keith Rowe, AMM, The Necks, Magic Dirt, Will Oldham, Colleen, Wilco, Tim Hecker, Le Fly Pan Am, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Hood, Pimmon, Suicide, Dean Roberts, Autistic Daughters, M.Rosner, To Rococo Rot, Christian Marclay, Shipping News, Fugazi, Minit, Rosy Parlane, Boards Of Canada, Anticon, Sixtoo, Beck, Deadbeat, Portable, Dizzee Rascal, Jackie O Motherfucker, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, The For Carnation,The Rectifiers, Something For Kate, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Triosk, Adrian Klumpes, Micah P. Hinson, Juana Molina, The Double, Supersilent, Bluebottle Kiss, Fennesz, New Order, Deathprod, Animal Collective, Pan American, Adem, Tunng, Gerling, Labradford, Arve Henriksen, Food, Refused, Not From There, Deftones, Set Fire To Flames, Anthony Guerra, Seaworthy, Castings, Function, David Sylvian, Tony Buck, Masha Qrella, Mice Parade, Chris Abrahams, Axel Dorner, I.C.P. Orchestra, The Ex, Islaja etc etc etc...
Sounds Like
a crisp Canberra morning in late April through to August...mist sitting still in the sky while frost covers the green grass outside houses...hazy sun trying to peek through the low lying cloud but being split into shards of light drifting down on water particles...
Shoeb Ahmad is a musician/sound artist based in Canberra, Australia. Beginning with toy microphones and instruments, Shoeb obsessed over feedback manipulation and minimal organ drone before feeling the push of punk experimentation. He performs and records fragile tone structures and spacious songforms using guitar, voice, field recordings, keyboard and laptop.
He has released recordings on the Sound & Fury, Wilting Flower and Low Point labels while performing alongside the likes of Gersey, DJ Olive, Richard Chartier, Tenniscoats, Christopher Willits and Magic Dirt. Shoeb has just released his first full length CD, titled 'Sonar Love Songs' on French label Cook An Egg. Here's what Boa Melody Bar out of Scotland had to say:
"Another lovely release from Shoeb Ahmad - guitar textures delayed / reverbed to the nth degree drifting towards the horizon, sometimes sounding like a guitar, with elongated notes extending ever outwards and sometimes like a ghostly shadow of the sound. Gorgeous." (Gayle Brogan)
:: LIVE ::
2005 - gigs w/ Dale Gorfinkel, DJ Olive & I/O3, M.Rosner, TQ, Gersey and Sub Audible Hum. duos w/ Peter Hollo (Fourplay), Wendi Graham (Radarmaker) and Tarquin Manek.
2006 - gigs w/ Jasmine Loop Control, Sabre Tooth Tigers, M.Rosner, Radarmaker, Polaroid Ghost, Alien Digit, Ladder, Richard Chartier, Filastine and Adrian Klumpes. duos w/ Peter Hollo (Fourplay), M.Rosner and Adrian Klumpes (Triosk). trio w/ Wendi Graham and Noah Norton (Radarmaker)
2007 - gigs w/ Three Month Sunset, Cam Butler, Robin Fox, M.Rosner, Jaime Fenelly, Blarke Bayer, Talbet Fulthorpe, Alps Of New South Wales, The Rational Academy, Pavel, Underlapper, Tenniscoats, Ben Spiers, Sam Hamilton + Adam Willitts, Nigel Wright + Tim Coster, Christopher Willits, ManKilled, Abject Leader, Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, ii, Anonymeye and Magic Dirt. duos with M.Rosner, Adrian Klumpes. trio with M.Rosner and Simon Hampson.
2008 - gigs w/ Mike Cooper. duo with Adrian Klumpes.
:: RECORDINGS ::
'Roomsound' EP - hellosQuare recordings 2006 ...SOLD OUT...
a limited edition tour disc of lo-fi acoustic sketches layered with found percussion sounds and bedroom vocals......
Scott Da Ros' album 'One Kind Of Dead End' (Endemik Music 2006) features Shoeb on 'melodic drones' on the piece 'Dilshad And Tohti By A Frozen Lake'
'Vinyl Sketches' 3" - Sound And Fury Records 2007 ...$10AUD w/postage...
six piano miniatures processed live to hard disk over the course of an afternoon sometime in 2006 whilst living in Wollongong......
'Summer Drift' 3" - Wilting Flower Records 2007 ...SOLD OUT HERE...
three pieces of processed acoustic guitar drone, heavy on minimalist tones and manipulation......
'Mixed Doubles' EP - out now on hellosQuare recordings 2007 ...SOLD OUT...
a collection of ambient songforms recorded between 2006 and 2007 along with remixes by M.Rosner (Room40, Apestaartje), Prettyboy Crossover (Surgery, Sensory Projects), Part Timer (Moteer) and Jasmine Loop Control (Wilting Flower). housed in a beautiful handmade cotton sleeve and case, this CDr is in a limited run of 50......
'Mammoth/Deer' split EP w/ ManKilled- hellosQuare recordings 2007 ...SOLD OUT...
six ManKilled stunners, brutal drone and punk blast. very lovable noise you know. i give up five tracks of ~scape tinged drift'n'pop and improv processed buzz featuring Wendi from Radarmaker. think meloncholic and glassy......
'Piano Music' 3" - Low Point label 2007 ...$10AUD w/postage...
this new 3" features four extended pieces of processed piano that builds on techniques first shown on 'Vinyl Sketches' while also working textures such as sleigh bells and found sounds for a new sense of composition......
'Sonar Love Songs' album - Cook An Egg Records 2007 ...$15AUD w/postage...
first full length release on French label Cook An Egg (Zelienople, Pefkin, Rory Storm). a collection of seven pieces, beginning with the crackling 'Pre-Nocturne' and the fuzzy thrum of 'Kokoda' before reaching the spacious tones of 'A Simple Discourse' and heading back home again......
'Prepared' 3" (as Pieno) - Curt 2007 ...$8AUD w/postage...
first record under the Pieno guise featuring three prepared guitar works as post-processed by Lawrence English (Room40 label head), M.Rosner and myself. at once alienating, contemplative and heavy on the mind......
'Snapshot 1' - Feral Media 2008
'When We Were Sirens' featured on this compilation for POWWOW in June 2008 alongside pieces by Morning Stalker, Adam Trainer and The Ghost Of 29 Megacycles.......
'Sea Songs, Dead Ends And Sleeping Pills' album- Sound And Fury Records 2008 ...COMING SOON...
a nine track follow-up to my last release Sonar Love Songs featuring bedroom sketches recorded during a year long stay in wollongong in 2006 alongside 'Vinyl Sketches'. features contributions by M.Rösner, William Ryan Fritch (Sole & The Skyrider Band), Machinefabriek, Plinth & Felicity Mangan (Function)........
'In The City' 3" - hellosQuare recordings 2008 ...COMING SOON...
a companion to 'Sea Songs...' featuring versions by Cleptoclectics (Feral Media), Bracken (Anticon) and Inch-time (Static Caravan) exploring a more rhythmic side to the drifting ambience of my work.......
:: future ::
split 7" with Library Tapes on Sound And Fury Records (Passeridae Series)
split 3" with Adam Trainer on Frosty You Haunt Me
Fancy playing any of your delectable music for the exhibition opening? Is gonna be at the Front almost defintely. Hope to see you there either way.
Peace.
-Joe
PS-please tell any one you know that might be interested dude! Hope to see you soon-its been too long. Will bring Highly refined Pirates to our next redevouz-i swear!!! =)
AsSalaamuAlaikum, ssgood to cee people in my ummah who make music. Prophet (SWS) said believers should encourage one another in their deeds. i like yr music. u have some good sounds. and a very etherial feel at times oceanic. -yusef [AD]
Anonymeye/Cam Deas split 3 inch available to order on the myspace! i assure you, its awesome. Tutts is doing more of the fennesz meets greg david sort of vein, and Cam Deas does a really lovely additive looping thing which works really well as a contrast to the Anonymeye side. I'll pick up your anonymeye split right now!
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Hi Ahmad.. I'm Liz. Thanx 4 da add! Nice to meet u.. Are you still live in Canberra? Is it in winter, fall, spring, or summer there? I'm from Indonesia. Actually i live in Hammerfest Norway since last year. I got midnight sun in summer and no sun in winter here.. How are u?
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