Majik69
6majik9 on 'The Human Hand' are creating surreal symphonies to disorientation. Starting with words, speech overlapping, manipulation of vinyl it then evolves into strummed acoustic density, playing chords not recognizable in this dimension. Guttural non-verbalized calls and exhortations sit in the background evoking the indescribable. Fuzz guitars, clattering percussion, bass that empties brains of reason. Speech from those not-quite alive seethe over broken melodies, spurts of stomach loosening noise, random drums, nobody playing together. Speech intoning, indistinguishable, reduced to primal sludge. Order from chaos, sense from the Surreal. This isn't music, its noise as liturgy. Caveat Emptor profundis.
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the "once again we battle mara" shows
mymwly. live shows in toowoomba 24th - 27th december 2004
Mara was the final psychological-demon force that Buddha fought before reaching his 'enlightened state'. the last attack by the forces of illusion, ego, desire,and loathing. in my mind that concept fittingly describes MYMWLY shows at this point in time-space. 3, 4 or 5 strong, conscious creative forces; each willing and receptive for the existential catharsis that happens whenever we play together, but each with their own ideas and intuitions of how to get there.we happily let the moment consumes us and most times the spaceship takes off. in may of 2004 we; james barrett, steven moller, meyekal donnelly and myself,eon mcintyre; played our first live show together in 12 years. it's unrealistic to expect it to have gone off without some falling down and flailing about, but we were pleasantly surprised at the results. this time round we had a better idea of what to expect, knowledge of which areas to focus on. and focus we did. in the space of 48 hours we somehow recorded around 5 hours of raw 4track material and played publicly three times.
the first performance was at c7 cafe. wednesday night, 9pm. the first act at their weekly open mic night. joining james, meyekal and myself was luke; a young violinist who also occassionally plays with redcoat (folk-funk with 3-part female harmonies. exquisite). luke warmed up with us that afternoon. two exploratory instumentals that unfortunately weren't captured for posterity (it was actually after these two numbers we went "shit!!! that's right. if we dont record them straight off, there's little chance of an exact replaying...prepare the tape machine!"). only about 4 people saw us at c7, they received our sounds with warmth and applause. musical frequencies sent-out : dijeridu, rattles, spoken word, violin, delay+phaser acoustic guitar, zoom+wah shortwave/keyboard/ tape machine.
after c7 we went to 4DDB (102.7 FM) RADIO, the tba community radio station. on wednesday nights there's a long running "demo show" where tba,SEQld,national independant/emerging bands can have their recordings played. i mistakenly believed an agreement had been reached with the DJ that MYMWLY could come in and perform 'electrically-amplified', be interviewed, discuss our cd releases. [about two months beforehand BLONDE COBRA (in which i play guitar/bass/noises) had done a 'live-to-air' show. i believe it to be the first time an 'electric' band had done so, beforehand only acoustic performances had been done.] so we lugged all our gear into the studio, and we were joined by kris donnelly. member of BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD, cellist/multi-instumentalist, sister to meyekal. a series of phonecalls revealed that a piddling by-law of the station was being thrown against me by the DJ who didn't even have the balls to show up. leaving the show to be run by two young men (luke, the violinist being one of them) who definately weren't expecting this to happen. thankfully the others weren't constrained by any regulations and interview, tracks being played, and an acoustic set was performed in the studio. some people aren't so petty and spiteful.
on thursday night we were booked to perform at BON AMICI'S CAFE. bon's owners, james and minna, are quite receptive to letting left-of-center acts have at least one go at the live thing, and they happy to have us back..but not on a friday or saturday night..haha. this is night previously posted photos are from. well our usual 'fans' turned up, plus some new ones from the latest wave of bands (funnily enough from a heavier-metal-punk band); so wow, that makes about 5 fans now...hahaha. i must mention Andrew Taylor here. he is a longtime resident and performer in the twmba scene. member of the amazin Dancing Bear fraternity and Open Mic night organiser, and not a bad mixer when u need someone quick and free (ish). now he has been to pretty much EVERY live show we've done over the recent years, only ones missed would've been at parties he not knew about. my first memory of him is when we were 17yr olds playin in The Klan's first incarnation. at a 'battle of the bands' organised by Dancing Bear in conjunction with The Carnival Of Flowers (tba's biggest event), we played a feedback-mayhem version of Interstellar Overdrive for our last song, the sound-dude was running round screaming at us to get off, and there was Andy - dancin by himself between the stage and the sitting crowd. he's always seemed to be there ever-since. plus many his cover versions set off my emotional-memory triggers. so yes; we did our stuff, all unplanned and 'site constructed'. should be interesting to hear my free-flow ramblings. by the end of the night we'd felt like we'd been beaten round the head by sacks of lead...and the cafe employees were happy when we finished. but at least it got recorded, a friend used her camera to record some sound and vision, its teasing 92 seconds is unsatisfying and marred by the talkin at the end..but you get that. the best part for me was that kris came out and played, so hopefully botos shows will be sonically exploding in the near future.
meyekal went back to kyogle the next day. in 72 hours we'd recorded about 2-cd's worth of material (5 master tapes); ranging from free-folk to ambient-soundscapes to flat-out-noise-fuck-assaults. with all holding their structual integrity and flow..sweeeet. just our normal pallette depth i suppose. it felt like we'd been together for about 3 weeks instead of 3 days. the mini corporate conference we'd had would scare anyone but a general consensus and positive outlook was achieved. that saturday night james and i continued our 'live music' offensive in tba. this time with g. charles - noisefolk songwriter extraordinaire and fellow noise beast in BLONDE COBRA - and two djembe drummers from DRUM ZULU, an African drumming troupe (euro-aussies tho). we had them snuck into the alcove and apparently the first half was overwhelmed by the drums, we had to turn the instruments up for once. all i can say about that night is - WOW!! i dont think any of us was expecting the rush we all got, something that was supposed to only be one sets worth ended up goin all night. when james was didje-ing away and i had the bass all droney - ahhhh, it was earthy and low-frequency. this is something we will look into doing again, the drummers looked like they were wired and their hands were numb to the elbow. they somehow kept the amazing rhythms going, once again our minds were drained and emptied.
the recordings from this period are reaching final mastering stage, and will hopefully be released thru digitalis records, and a 60sec lift is going to be released on the soon-to-be-relesed 'pincher' compilation. we've started a wonderful relationship with digitalis and brad has kindly given amazing reviews for the BOTOS and TERRACID recordings. digitalis recently released the latest LOST DOMAIN recording. curiously enough we (under the name of SOAR WHOLE) were on a compilation cd released by malignant records in about 1994, they were called 'the invisible empire' back then. blonde cobra recently did a show with lost domain and seeing/hearing them was an inspirational experience which allowed BC to explode into lateral-abstract soundscapes. ahhhh, there is hope for this part of the world.
neon phyreHave you performed in front of an audience?Ohh yessssss.....This is not musik this is spiritual cleansing through hypothalmic bass intonation.
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