At Hap­py tomor­row night you can hear three of New Zealand’s ris­ing stars of min­i­mal­ist elec­tron­ic music:

  • Sam Hamil­ton
  • Ange­line Chirn­side aka Jane Austen
  • Nigel Wright

These artists are described in the media release as “won­der­ful and amaz­ing; think the mag­nif­i­cent beau­ty of Rosy Par­lane, Minit, and Rachel Shear­er’s Love­ly Midget project. Hell, think of the inter­na­tion­al­ly reknowned Fen­nesz, Tim Heck­er or Kei­th Fuller­ton Whit­man, if you like.”

In sup­port of the above will be appear­ing Mr Antony Mil­ton, in his Nether Dawn guise. Antony has just returned from a huge­ly suc­cess­ful tour of the entire god­dam world. The Nether Dawn is Mil­ton’s “ghost blues / sound scult­pure” project. Of his recent CD “Whiskey Mute-Down” (released on US label Last Vis­i­ble Dog) one writer enthused “There’s a tan­gi­ble sense of calm and won­der in every sec­ond […] a glid­ing shim­mer of reverb, amp­buzz, wind and rain that blos­soms to the most ecsta­t­ic heights of sedat­ed fuzz tran­scen­dence; it sounds like it was record­ed on a wind swept beach some­where with sounds of surf rush­ing and reced­ing in the back­ground, and sug­gests ear­ly Fly­ing Saucer Attack at their con­cep­tu­al best.”

From that descrip­tion, I guess Hap­py will also be a good refuge from Sev­ens mania.