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Blog : Audiopollen : Audiopollen 23/08/06

Audiopollen broadcasts on 4ZZZ 102.1FM in  Brisbane Australia every Wednesday night at 11pm.  We play Noise,  Esoterica, Outsider POP, Psych, Sound Art, Babble, Minimalism, Volk, Heavy Shit,  Shambles, and much more. Playlists are posted regularly to the half/theory blog.  Feel free to cut, paste  and mail it around. Your hosts are Lloyd Barrett and  Joel Stern.

contact us -  skon[at]halftheory[dot]com
send us music  - Audiopollen, c/o 4ZZZ, PO BOX 509, Fortitude Valley, QLD AUSTRALIA,  4006

Audiopollen Social Club is a weekly  off-the-wall, dada improv, noise folk, sound performance social club that  happens here in Brisbane, Ausralia, usually on Sunday's. APSC is helping to  revitalise the Brisbane sub-underground avant-community and also provide  opportunities for habitually reclusive noise artists to socialise themselves in  a non-judgemental environment.

book yourself in -  joel[at]otherfilm[dot]org

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Audiopollen 23/08/06

Tonight I soloed with a bunch of recent releases from Last Visible Dog - a fantastic label who provide quality AND quantity!
Aside from releasing the epic Invisible Pyramid set (a requiem to the extinction of a variety of animal life) they have continued to pump out multi-volume sets of interesting clatter and drone.
For this broadcast we focused specifically on:

Peter Wright - Pariahs Sing Om - a reissue of the original release adding the Catch a Spear as it Flys album, extended tracks and a 3rd disc of unreleased material.  Peter to me is 50% into the Jonathan Colelough / Andrew Chalk style of drone while the other 50% is firmly embedded in the New Zealand lo-fi scene providing thick droning walls of ambience that aren't content to be smug or wallpaper pretty but constantly flickering, shifting and evolving.  If Mirror is a glistening lake then Peter Wright is the campfire.  I played "5mins, 3seconds" and "Catch a Spear as it Flys"

My Cat is an Alien - The Cosmological Eye Trilogy - another awesome 3disc set that expands some original releases with material extras, remodeled and recently fashioned.  MCIA is primarily the Opalio brothers Maurizio and Roberto from Italy and I imagine if they had more traditional rock instruments and marshalls they might sound like Acid Mothers Temple.  Fortunately for us they don't have such things and modify what they have to create an indescribably spacey music that in theory is somewhat reminiscient of Taj Mahal Travellers though in fact it sounds nothing like them.  "The Trifid Nebula" was the track I chose to play.

Birchville Cat Motel - Curved Surface Destroyer - a 3cd collection of live recordings from 1998 - 2006 which provides an overview of the move from minimalist drone pieces through lo-fi anti-academic electro-acoustic to roaring metallic skree in a vaguely Hototogisu stylee.  The piece played was entitled "Drawn Towards Chanting Hordes" recorded at the Instal festival in Glasgow, 2005 which moves from electrical hum through bagpipes into a Highland Black Metal dervish!

All of these releases were purchased by me from Rockinghorse Records in Brisbane but i'm sure you can get them either from the Last Visible Dog site - http://www.lastvisibledog.com or other decent records stores.  The discs are bargain priced - retailing at around $40australian or less and they are all worth at least double that.

Til next time!
][oyd

Added by skon on 29 August 2006