Re: (idm) The Necks

From Peter Hollo
Sent Wed, Sep 1st 1999, 04:52

Yep I met the Carpet Bomb guys in New York when I was there recently and
they said they were licensing Aquatic. Cool!

The Necks are in fact and _Australian_ group, not New Zealand. From
Sydney, where I come from. Lovely guys, and AMAZING live preformers too.
Piano, bass and drums, creating minimalist, slowly evolving pieces
influenced by jazz, funk, dub, minimalism and probably even hip hop...

For those interested, they are:
Chris Abrahams - piano/keys
Lloyd Swanton - double bass
Tony Buck - drums

They have 6 albums out, including the soundtrack to the Australian movie
The Boys that came out last year.

Those Carpet Bomb peoples really have great taste (their Highways Over
Gardens comp was one of the very best CDs of last year) and are quite
brave releasing something that's superficially at least quite different
stylistically. However, I think the music would appeal greatly to
practically everyone on this list.

Peter.
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