Primitive Motion Certain Materials 7' ep (Soft Abuse)
Edn of 300 with download code
"This duo is an offshoot of Brisbane's Deadnotes, and while they have some similarities to that outfit's stumbling gait, their approach is way diff. Electronics, male/female voices and echo-up-the-wazoo make me think of a certain strain of San Francisco post-punk aesthetic of the very early 1980s. But the label's reference to the Door and The Window is accurate as well. Very diffuse, non-anti-hippy pop-weirdness. With flute! "
Byron Coley, The Wire
"Four wraithlike emanations emerge from down under, with Leighton Craig and Sandra Selig shunting disposable snippets of flayed cosmology around a well-ventilated garrison. A Straight Line hotfoots it along a decomposed drum machine rumba before stumbling over the disembodied sales spiel of countless perfume counter assassins. Elsewhere, Your Eyes revels in its solemn after-the- apocalypse vibe, a high church manoeuvre remonstrating with a severe case of the doldrums."
The Ledge! and Sandy Selig at Deadshits Festival, Nov 2010
Over the past two years The Deadnotes + The Legend! have recorded well in excess of 100 songs. "Why?", you might reasonably ask of this seemingly pointless exercise. Good question. No answer.
While it's taken us too long to whittle the first notch in the discography post, the timber was finally splintered a few months ago with an appearance on the '78 Ltd compilation cd released on Thick Syrup Records from Little Rock, Arkansas.
And indeed we are honoured to share disc space with some of our faves - Jad Fair, Mike Watt, Julie Cafritz et al. Ye Gods! Without whom...
Doin it for the young folks at I Used to Skate Once, 24 June 2010
Our contribution,"Real Bad Man", has been a mainstay of live sets over the past year or so. Here is a live version of said song (not the comp. track) recorded at The Zoo in March 2011 when we supported The (still righteously boss) Clean.
If you were up the road that night at the Best Coast show, the folly of your probable youth is excused, and forgiveness flows to you good friend. That said, probs for the best if you kindly exit this blog now.
While I'm on a roll, plans are still afoot for the Room is Nowhere 7' ep on Soft Abuse.
This 5 track single is to my mind amongst the best material we've recorded. Hells bells, we even overdubbed a couple of parts. Sell outs! Jad Fair cover art, mindless expletives, double sax attack - well, could you ask for more in seven inches of punk rock? And if you did, what would be the point? I put it to you once again - there is no point.
Woa! Back again. Just like the carton of Coopers Sparkling Ale I'm currently investigating, this post knows no end.
Here is a gratuitous shot of a Deadnote with a Teenage Panzerkorps member only moments before the ceremonial destruction of the last known copies of The Legend!'s legendary 80s eps - lest they one day fall into the hands of an undeserving Nirvana fan.
Have another track. Unrelated to the aforementioned eps. What would be the point in that?
Primitive Motion's first album out now on beautiful pro-dubbed/printed cassette (with download) from our Minneapolis cousin, Soft Abuse. Numbered edition of 100. Overseas maties order cassette here, Australian and Kiwi family push this button:
"Primitive Motion, a.k.a. caveman rumba a.k.a. neanderthal pulsewave... By Arc or Chord is crude music & virtuoso magic, lazy mood pieces with stratospheric trajectory. I'm grasping at scratchy Thick Pigeon singles & lost Here & Now sessions for some kind of reference point, but it's already all there in the band name. Male & female vocals careen haphazardly over cyclopean beats, drenched casio & emotive euphonium at the fertile intersection of post-punk, kraut-communal & art-school stoned." - Glenn Donaldson.
Poem Mask: Different Bird, Same Tree; and World Behind the Great Mirror
Also available on Kindling cdr in a numbered edition of 47 - different artwork to the cassette, same tracks. Different bird, same tree. Lovingly printed on 300gsm watercolour card, with a signed/numbered Sandra Selig cut-poem insert (1 of the 2 opposite). You need. CDR SOLD OUT SORRY Small cache just unearthed! Last few copies:
Public interest posting of lost band from the overlooked downtown Wooloongabba warehouse scene. Circa unknown. DTN joined dots from the striped sunlight sound to the lower east side (of Brisbane). Track taken from the not-really-existent "Skeleton" cassette.
Founding Lost Domain member Simon Ellaby moved to Tasmania last week. As I write, he'll be holed up in his mountain retreat outside Hobart, reading-slippers on, packing down a pipe. He's from another time is our Simon. Breaks in his pipes by curing them in brandy. I love that.
So Simon has left town and I've been thinking about those nights when we convened with Eugene Carchesio to smoke trout at the Northgate sheds - a collection of fibro industrial buildings in a northern suburb of Brisbane. Dragging gear up the precarious flight of stairs into a small room with a big PA. I can still smell the fusty carpet.
At Pestorius Sweeney House, August 2005
We took our first communion in July 2004. It was a rhythm thing. Little instruments, big sound. Casio and miniature guitar. (Quarter-size violin came later). Eugene's first pummel on the tubs. It was loud and it felt good. The first-time rush of blood. I pulled into the driveway at home later that night and sat in my car with ears ringing, top of the world...
We called ourselves G55. It was the model of headphones we had each coincidentally bought on sale. No mystery there.
G55 played a handful of shows in our 18 month existence, our first in the carpark behind Jamies Cafe on 19 March 2005. Pumice played too and jammed with us. I have the recording. In fact, I have a wad of G55 recordings in the Kindling archive under my bed.
Reunion gig, Tongue and Groove, Feb 2007
We only released our first two sessions as cdrs on Kindling - lovingly boot stamped heavy card covers - imaginatively titled G55-1 and 2. No mystery there either.
The archive suggests we stopped hitting the Northgate sheds on a regular basis around December 2005. Here are a couple of unreleased favourites that distil the essence - smoke pouring outta Simon's little vintage Goldentone. In memorium...
Three works from Special Mechanism for Universal Uncertainty, a
suite of 10 cut-poems by Sandra Selig with accompanying recordings by Leighton Craig.
Exhibited at Before and After Science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, February - May 2010 (review) and Milani Gallery, Brisbane, November 2010.
(We are discussing a set of prints with lathe-cut record - wishful but possible!)
When wandering punk minstrel Pumice recently tried to fly home to Aotearoa from Sydney, his plane was grounded by plumes of Chilean volcanic ash that had wandered 9 000km across the Pacific.
Being himself a solidified volcanic emission and finely attuned to the convergence of tectonic plates, he had 'sensed' the grumblings of Puyehue and the imminent stratospheric mass several days prior to its arrival. Aghast at the prospect of being trapped south of the border, he had pre-purchased a bus ticket to deliver him from the perils of the Harbour City into the arms of his kin folk in Brisbane, The Deadnotes.
Sixteen hours later, and following several bags of his favoured Smiths crinkle cut crisps and roadside stops for milky cups of tea, a Trans-Tasman summit of sorts transpired in Milani Gallery, captured for posterity be ye faithful archivist Sandy Seashore Selig.
With resident string-bender Mr E collecting mandarines by moonlight at his country retreat, axe duties passed to our man from the Shaky Isles, who garnished with heavy delay throat sung doo wop. Here's a wee dram. Eyes and ears out for release of the full session later this year...
A Nathan Shepherdson post-it poem, found between the high-hat cymbals during The Deadnotes performance at the opening of Madonna Staunton's Homework exhibition, Milani Gallery, 27 May 2010. How he posted it remains a sweet mystery.
