the wellingtonista

Wellington music month 3: getting noizy

Posted by noizyboy on Thursday, 17 May 2007
Skallander - The Camels Take the welly dub ethic, mix it up with some guitar and ambient noise, and you end up with this brilliant slab of aural inventiveness. One of the many projects to come from the musical mind of the very talented and massively under-rated Bevan Smith. Shihad - Killjoy Best NZ rock album. Ever. Nuff said. The Bilge Festival - Cape Goat The good side of Wellington wacky rock. Two mad singer/songwriters and a super-tight rhythm section, create an opus of bizarre yet funky songs. Wildebeest a go-go!! Over the Atlantic - Junica Another Bevan Smith collaboration - this is like a Wellingtonian take on what the definitive New Order album might sound like. The noise wig-out on the last track 'Fly to the States' is the best bit of distortion you'll ever hear. (Video below is the track '35 Black & White')... Debris - She's the Bomb Yeah, I played on it. And technically we're all from Christchurch. But we were living here at the time, it was recorded at the infamous Church on Frederick St., and it's f**kin' awesome. '35 Black & White', from the Over the Atlantic album Junica.

Bevan Smith underrated? Never by me! Though of his collaborative projects, my favourite would have to be Patio (with Jet Jaguar).

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Well, under-rated in that he's virtually unknown in his hometown beyond a small band of knowledgeable music fans.

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