Gaslight Radio Too Close

This is from the Tote about one whole year ago. I had the gain up too high so it sounds pretty outrageous. But that is the way I like it. Around the time the swine flu pandemonium scare festival was in full humor.

For those of you who don't know, a brief: Gaslight Radio: Out Of The Wilderness : Mess+Noise

Although I do believe they remain in the wilderness perpetually. Hitch on the Leaves is a great album. I'll post that one day. Im sure they wont mind too much.

Milk Teddy Live!

Here is a booted leg that I snapped when the local Teddie's blew the ditch Bats back across to NZ. The staff at the East held my parmigiana while I watched them play at the late-dinner unfriendly time of 8.30. Then I ate post. Only a snatch, as I ran out of space.

Later this 2010 I saw the Chills playing in Sydney at the OAF. On a more positive note for the flying nuns cool factor(y mark II), Martin Phillips et al. were decidedly uncool and therefore, totally cool. They were actually amazing, I did not record this show however.

Ruins of Drop City

Joel Sternfield

Anti-Israel Rally, Casablanca, January 2009

The sound of discontent.

Roky

I just remembered this. I remember German Shepherd being the best. Francis was second. Maybe biased.



- giles

Francis Plagne Likes Kurt Cobain

Merzouga Too...

So many stars.

Merzouga Jam

While I went to the desert Sahara with my friend Lauren, I heard this and captured it. Just young folks jamming like you or I. I guess they are like Berber folk songs.
There is more of this to upload...

Ladies and Gentlemen We Were Floating In Space Re Place

Here is Somaloha! playing in the sound installation I made for a show that was on during the State of Design Festival 2009. It was called 'Ladies and Gentleman We Are Floating In Space' and was severely indebted to the work of Alvin Lucier. My friend Vijay wrote the MaxMSP code for me. Vijay is xenosine. Somaloha! consists of Duncan Eastey from Melbourne prog/sun-psychers The Sun Blindness and myself. The work essentially transformed a disused basement on Bourke St. in Melbourne into a big reverb tank / delay machine. It was fun while it lasted.

Also here is one audio cycle of the Opening.

Bettina's Piano

A song I recorded when I was in Berlin last year, on the cool piano in Mitte.
Fucked Folk.

- giles

Doctors and Nurses

Here is a song I made with Richard Prince playing in the back.
Fucked Folk.

- giles

Brian Jones presents...

The Master Musicians of Jajouka,
Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan At Jajouka

From 1968, these recordings captured by Jones and his cabal documents the Moroccan musicians status as hip influencers of the late sixties pop world continuing right through to the now (Lee Ronaldo who performed with them in 2003). Discovered by Brion Gysin and Paul Bowles in the fifties through Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri, Gysin introduced Jones to the sounds in 1968 and the Musicians held sway at the beat hangout The One Thousand and One Nights in Tangier during the times. Recorded on two-track during the very dionysian festival for Pan, full of manic, panic inducing rituals, goat-sacrifice and intense, repetitive music, Jones took the recordings back to ol' blighty and duly fucked with them until they sounded pleasing to his warped reality (completing the project just before his death in '69). This album is apparently the first 'World' music record to be released. Good onya Jonesy.

Check it out. Here

For sweet Julianne

- giles

Children

A movie we made using Alfred Hitchcock and Ken Jacobs film set to music made by children

Follow them here

- giles

White Woods

a local band that i have seen only once. they were great. i managed to grab this from the show at the curtain.

White Woods