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Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures from David Brown playing banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin. |
In Stock Shipping Weight: 2.00 units Quantity in Basket: None Log In to use our Wish List ![]() Label: Room40 Catalog ID: EDRM 412CD Squidco Product Code: 7949 Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2007 Country: Australia Packaging: CD in a clam shell snap case Recorded in North Fitzroy on Sunday afternoons May 2006. Personnel: David Brown-banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, eukolin Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist. Highlight an instrument above and click here to Search for albums with that instrument. ![]() ![]() 1. Everything is Cheaper than it Looks 10:53 2. Sad Dog (Gunbalanya) 5:12 3. Old Verve (Croajingalong) 4:47 4. This Happened When Dogs Could Talk 4:14 5. Rechabites' Hammers (Wakool) 5:58 6. Hymns In Spitting (The Nobbies) 4:48 7. Your Fantastic Chemist 4:49 8. Words Dissolved In Eyes (Gettysburg) 3:40 |
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![]() "Recorded over a series of four Sunday afternoons, Wakool is an interrogation into an expanded range of techniques and gestures applied to instruments including banjo, electroacoustic guitar, bandura, and eukolin. In part an antidote to laborious studio process, this project privileges live stereo recordings without additional overdubs, processing or equalization. The varied and spontaneous nature of David's effortless playing across an eclectic range of instruments was recorded transparently to direct the aural focus on the dynamics and nuances comprising each performance. In some ways Wakool is pure documentation of process, simply demonstrating David's formidable range of concepts and techniques developed over an extraordinary period of experimentation and research commencing in the late 70s. On the other hand David's meticulous preparation of each instrument combined with his prodigious knowledge of improvisational practice provides a complexity that negates the need for sophisticated studio process. Wakool stands as a testament to David's sustained and unwavering commitment to improvisation, which he executes with enthusiasm, vigour and inventiveness that easily posits him as the most vital figure in the Australian musical avant-garde." - Philip Samartzis David Brown (b. 1956, Melbourne, Aust.) has been involved in the Melbourne experimental, art rock/punk rock scene since the mid-seventies. His current projects include punk jazz band bucketrider, lazy an improvising duo with percussionist Sean Baxter, improv/sound art group Western Grey with Baxter and Philip Samartzis, psychedelic electronic duo Terminal Hz with KK Null from Japan and prepared improvisational group Pateras/Baxter/Brown."-Room40 ![]() Electro-Acoustic Improv Improvised Music Electro-Acoustic Guitarists, &c. Free Improvisation Australian Improvisers, Composers and Experimenters |
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