Archive for 'Interviews'
[MUSIC: Interview] Ned Collette + Wirewalker
Ned Collette + Wirewalker’s 2 is a dry, pragmatic, immediate record, which shares little with the heady avant-rock of 2010’s Over The Stones, Under The Stars.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Brag 462 (May 14), Interviews, Music.
Tags: FBi Socical, Luke Telford, Ned Collette, Wirewalker
[MUSIC: Interview] Daniel Merriweather
Daniel Merriweather has been relatively quiet since his 2009 debut LP Love & War and subsequent ARIA for Best Male Artist. That’s not to say he hasn’t been busy – quite the opposite in fact. Having just recorded a new EP in Brooklyn, which was mixed in LA, he’s back in his hometown of Melbourne about to embark on a national tour, including a few support slots with Kimbra.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Brag 462 (May 14), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Daniel Merriweather, Music, Nils Hay, The Standard, Toucan
[MUSIC: Interview] The ReChords
One of my favourite Massachusetts bands, Piebald, once said, “All you need is drums to start a dance party.” The ReChords would probably find that amusing; they’ve been coping rather well without a drummer since getting together in 2009. The western swing/RnB/roots three-piece have amassed themselves a rather large following in their home town of Melbourne, settling in for residencies at The Gem in Collingwood for month-long stints, scoring support slots for touring acts like Justin Townes Earle and King Cannons, and turning heads with their performance at the Meredith Music Festival. And all this without a single snap of a snare.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Brag 462 (May 14), Interviews, Music.
Tags: Barbarion, Black Cherry, Music, Rich Warner, The Drey Rollan Band, The Factory Theatre, The ReChords
[MUSIC: Interview] Amon Tobin
From the traditional vinyl samplings of his debut album, Adventures In Foam, to the manipulated field recordings of Foley Room, Brazilian-born producer Amon Tobin has consistently been fascinated by the re-appropriation of sound. Like Foley Room, his seventh and most recent album, ISAM, sees Tobin crafting a cornucopia of sampled ‘found sounds’ into a sonic maelstrom – except this time, he went looking for curious sounds closer to home.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Brag 462 (May 14), Interviews, Music, Vivid LIVE 2012.
Tags: Adventures In Foam, Amon Tobin, Digby Woods, Foley Room, ISAM, Sydney Opera House, Vivid Live
[MUSIC: Interview] Imogen Heap
If Imogen Heap sounds like she’s buzzing with ideas on record, wait until you hear her speak. The dynamic, award-winning and boundary-pushing artist seems almost incapable of sitting still – which makes for an excellent interview. Heap is returning to Sydney for a performance at Vivid LIVE and for Vivid’s Song Summit conference, where she’ll deliver a keynote speech about the processes behind her dazzlingly diverse range of compositions. She’ll be bringing six months worth of custom-made songs with her, which were created with the help of her extensive online fanbase using a diverse range of mediums including sound, text and vision to inform her songwriting process. This collection, currently entitled ‘Heapsongs’, is a continual work-in-progress that will result in an album that almost every listener will have been involved with in some capacity. It all seems utterly exhausting – but for Heap, it’s endlessly fascinating.
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Brag 462 (May 14), Interviews, Music, Vivid LIVE 2012.
Tags: Imogen Heap, Jonno Seidler, Music, Sydney Opera House, Vivid Live