Great opening night last night with roughly 70 people through the door. 2 fun sets from TRIAD followed by a BLAST from the past from Magic Dirt.

LAWRENCE ENGLISH & TOM HALL – EUPHONIA (CD by Presto!? Records)
The Italian label Presto!? was founded by Lorenzo Senni, and his next two releases, following a disc by John Hudak are two collaborations. The first one comes from a land down under and both Lawrence English and Tom Hall have been reviewed before here, English probably more than Hall, but he is the more busy bee. They play here a variety of unnamed instruments, analogue and electronic, which they recorded in the studio and some of it re-recorded using spatial qualities of other places and together makes a very warm release of ambient music. Brian Eno is mentioned (think the ambiance, think the locations in the vein of ‘On Land’) of course, but the world of ambient glitch should not be forgotten as well. Beautiful slow transforming sounds, spacious and spatial, sometimes with a touch of darkness, but very nice throughout. Nothing new under the sun of course, but that’s nothing new either in the world of ambient music. Strong beauty.

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Event Info
Host: GUILDFORD LANE GALLERY
Type: Music/Arts – Performance
Location: Guildford Lane Gallery
Street: 20-24 Guildford Lane
Town/City: Melbourne, Australia

26th Nov. – 7pm
Bum Creek
Tom Hall (Brisbane)
Mark Reid
Marco Cher-Gibard

3rd Dec. – 7pm
Robin Fox
Bonnie Mercer
Ben Byrne

10th Dec – 7pm
Make Up Sex (Sophie Brous & Tarquin Manek)
Daniel Jenatsch
Christina Tester
Scot Cotterell (Hobart)

Doors Open 6:30pm each night.
Free Entry + Refreshments

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I got my last NO ANCHOR fix last night for 2008….look forward to ’09
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The beginning of a new series (in my garage) aptly titled SONIC BOOM!. This will be a monthly series that hopefully continues long into 2009. The inaugral one will see 4 piece bass outfit ABE SADA from PERTH take to the garage along with aXXoNN (Brisbane Debut/ EP Launch) + Cured Pink Radio + Goatcock (Brisbane Debut).

The idea it too broadcast these live to the World starting with the first one. The evenings event will be viewable LIVE from this SONIC BOOM! LIVE BROADCAST

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EUPHONIA Live – Lawrence English & Tom Hall.

I’m very happy to say that a collaborative album with Lawrence English ‘Euphonia’ out in Italian label Presto!? has finally hit Australian shores. On the down side there are not too many copies available for purchase. I received 30 copies of which 10 have already been locked down.

So, I have only 20 Copies sitting here ready to be purchased, mailed off, picked up or exchanged for household chores. Copies are $25 each in Australia (including postage). If you would like to grab a copy fast (I recommend this as 20 won’t last long) shoot me a SMS, Email, Call, Carrier Pigeon and I’ll reserve one for you. Payments by bank deposit/PayPal/Cash etc.

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Rhani died this morning round 10am EST

R.I.P Rhaster….
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Plenty on this weekend for eveyone..

Secret Birds are playing @ The Hanger this Friday night —> Details Here
Nikko are playing @ The Hanger Saturday night
The Rationals are playing @ Rosies Saturday night.

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I’m finalising and testing my setup for ‘Tangential Uprise’, an exhibition at INFLIGHT Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania opening on the 28th of November —> Details Here

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Getting ready for a few live solo gigs in Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart. —> DETAILS HERE

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Enjoying my new studio addition.

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…to the studio.



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Getting down to the bare knuckles stage of my solo release that’ll see the light of day mid-way through next year on Baskaru. These final stages are seeing the finale of the processing stage with just EQ/Mixing and matching to go (the hard part).

Here’s as interesting little organic/analogue processing setup I was using the other day.

It goes something like this:

>Sound in Laptop to Sound Card
>Sound card to Moog Pedals
>Moog Pedal back to Sound card
>Sound Card to Laptop
>Laptop to external lo-fi speaker
>Lo-Fi Speaker to Audio Recorder
>Audio Recorder to Laptop

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Also I got a sweet little package in the mail from one of my fav underground Oz groups ‘WHALEHAMMER‘ (with a name like that how couldn’t they be good!) with there latest CD release SUBTERRANEAN. Unfotunately David of WHALEHAMMER tells me he’s off to live in San-Francisco which I guess means that’s it for WHALEHAMMER….DAMN!!

Check out there >>>MYSPACE<<<

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They’re calling it the best NO ANCHOR gig of the year…..

….FRANKLY! I have to agree!!

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