Species 8472
Alternative / Experimental / Gothic
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"It’s everywhere and nowhere, baby…."
Scottish Highlands,
United Kingdom
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| Member Since | 11/12/2005 | | Band Website | species8472.net | | Band Members | Core Members: Alasdair Wright - vocals, piano, keyboards, programming, songwriting • Clare O'Brien - vocals, woodwind, songwriting.
Occasional Members: Susanna Wolfe - vocals, guitar • Natalia Kutsepova - vocals • Beth Hunter - vocals, clarsach •
Ally Craig - guitar • Mark Goodjohn - guitar • Alex Urquhart-Taylor - whistles, pipes • Davie Munro - guitar • Davie Martin - percussion.
| | Influences | Steve Reich Scott Walker Chris Cornell Ted Hughes Radiohead The Mabinogion Igor Stravinsky Portishead Jeff Buckley John Adams John Barry Siouxsie Sioux Kate Bush Tain Bo Cuailgne Angela Carter Jimmy Webb Martin Grech Kevin Spacey Maynard James Keenan William Shakespeare Peter Ackroyd Led Zeppelin Colt Elizabeth Fraser P J Harvey The Who Julian Cope Viggo Mortensen Foo Fighters William Blake Jimmy Gnecco Glenn Richards David Bowie TS Eliot Mervyn Peake Trent Reznor Alison Goldfrapp Sir Christopher Wren Michael Symmons Roberts Rufus Wainwright R.S. Thomas Christopher Priest Martyn Bennett Billy Mackenzie | | Sounds Like | Scott Walker and Isobel Campbell collaborate with Led Zeppelin to write songs for David Lynch movies. | | Record Label | Fluidic Space (own label) | | Type of Label | None |
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| About Species 8472 |
Species 8472 is not a band. Species 8472 is an Internet-based project thats always under construction. Like the Star Trek creature from fluidic space whose name it borrows, its a shapeshifting beast which comes at you from everywhere at once.
Founded and directed by musicians Alasdair Wright and Clare O’Brien from their home in the Scottish Highlands, Species 8472 constantly adapts, reaching out and involving musicians and artists from other parts of the world and using the Internet to communicate, write and record. Participants are of all ages and ancestries, both genders but a common language - music.
Species 8472 exists to write, record and perform original music with a smattering of inventive covers. Released in the spring of 2006, Power Up is its first CD.
Species 8472 is music from nowhere.
Species 8472 are one of ten bands with a track on the fantastic new AQA Album.
Our CD Power Up is also available to buy via PayPal on our website, price £8.99 (UK) or £9.99 (international) - or download from
Scotloads.co.uk
Our unreleased track Green Sky featuring Russian-language vocal from Natalia Kutsepova is out now on an internet compilation entitled Falling on Earth Monkey Productions. They’ve even made us our own page on the site.
Click on the banner and download our track!
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Scarburst...is a mishmash of industrial beats, but which subside to a decided croon in the Scott Walker/Jack L vein, which sets the tone for the rest of the album.. Introspective and downbeat are the watchwords for sure, but what Wright and O’Brien have is a massive ability for songwriting, all in the Talk Talk / Tindersticks vein from the cusp of the 80s/90s, but musically landing on the credible side of that godforsaken era. If the sound and delivery are dark, then the lyrics vanish into an emotional crypt... A keen interest in the elements, perhaps aptly given their location, as emotions are laid bare in the cold then warmed by the flames of an open fire.
- Donald Bush, Is This Music?
With a name that could as well be a new Star Trek spin off show, Species 8472 take the artier moments of Kate Bush and blend them into a synergy of spiralling piano notes and beats that stretch and curl up like a frightened hedgehog. If only we could hear clearly under water as this would be perfect swimming music, but even in the open air this is the stuff that dreams are made of.
- Jeremy Chick, Subba-Cultcha.com
Species 8472...absolutely brilliant band. They’re a bit different...I first of all played them on the show a wee while ago and they’re absolutely wonderful. Alasdair Wright and Clare O’Brien...there’s a lovely wee tune, A Tripwire, a grand tune that’ll wake you’s all up. They’ve got an album out...Power Up, go and buy it. Fantastic voice that girl’s got. Absolutely stunning.
- Andy Richards & Alex MacLeod, Cuillin FM
More tracks are available to hear at our Pure Volume page or our IAC page.
Alasdair Wright and Clare O’Brien of Species 8472 also play alongside flautist and harpist Carole Miller in jazz group Black Cherry and help run local arts organisation West Coast Arts.
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