'Dead Rhythm' by Gilbert Fawn

Call it post-rock, call it noise music, call it sonic experimentation... to me, they're always soundtracks for unmade films. Gilbert Fawn (a.k.a Matthew Aitken of Ghost of 29 Megacycles) likes his movies too; heck, he organised a backyard film festival that featured Dennis Hopper fishing.

Listening to the new Fawn album Dead Rhythm, my film nerd mind went directly to Harrison Ford instead. Why? Because it's adventure music with an exotic air, particularly when the folky ‘Median' strikes, so naturally it is Temple of Doom times. Things get weird with the atmospheric loops of ‘Dead Meat', take us out of Spielberg territory.

Yet the image of Harrison Ford sticks around, but this time in ‘Plane Food', it's Ford in The Mosquito Coast where he plays a freaky inventor who wants to build a giant fridge in Central America. Hardly anybody saw it. But it's just like a Werner Herzog movie, only directed by an Aussie. And Dead Rhythm can double as its brand new soundtrack. Music that is rugged, bold and a little bit madcap.

By Tristan Fidler

http://www.sixthousand.com.au/hear/dead-rhythm-gilbert-fawn/

DJ Set tonight at Velvet Lounge

Greg DJs tonight with Paul Prestipion for Noh Way! featuring Perth's finest experimental musicians:

Candied Limbs (Cat Hope and Lindsay VIckery)
Adam Trainer
Craig McElhinney
The Beatrice Chronicles

Velvet Lounge from 8pm.

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All Ages show at Dada Records this Saturday 10 July

John Grader is Kabouter's Forest! He plays at 5.30ish.
http://www.myspace.com/kaboutersforest

Greg Taw is the Ghost of 29 Megacycles. He plays after John and before...
http://www.myspace.com/theghostof29megacycles

...Dada's own Jess Hutchens as Jane Harris. She plays last.

This is the last chance to see Greg play before he leaves for Melbourne. Also most likely the last chance to see Jess play before she leaves for Europe. John doesn't have plans on moving away as far as i know but, it is his second gig so is still worth making an effort to see.

Traianos is bringing his urn. We're going to fill it with water. We're also bringing tea, sugar, milk, cups and spoons. You can use all of them. FOR FREE.

Love and Care Cafe are doing their Gado Gado and Chicken Satay Sticks again. They cost money, but are unreasonably cheap.

ALL AGES. FREE ENTRY. FREE TEA.

R.I.P Adam D Mills

A really sad day for music.
We send our condolences to his family.
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Matt Rösner Tape Series Volume 1

Matt Rösner Tape Series Volume 1

A. Transits

B. March 7, A Dry Heat

Western Australian sound artist Matt Rösner delivers the first in a series of three cassette only albums on Meupe. Volume 1 features 45 minutes of previously unreleased collaborations with Perth artists Greg Taw (Ghost of 29 Megacycles) and Adam Trainer recorded over the past 18 months. Using guitar and piano improvisations performed by Taw and Trainer as a starting point, Rösner has added his trademark field recordings and max/msp processing to craft longform pieces that play at the listeners sense of time and place. The cassette format suits these piece immensely.Available at a launch at Kulcha, Fremantle on Friday May 28, 2010. From then on exclusively from the Meupe Shop. Edition of 50.

Textura review of Love via Paper Planes

The Ghost of 29 Megacycles: Love Via Paper Planes
Sound & Fury Records

For some odd reason, I half-expected to hear a set of guitar-generated blaze when I put on Love Via Paper Planes by The Ghost of 29 Megacycles, a Perth, Australia-based trio featuring Karen de san Miguel, Matthew Aitken, and Gregory Taw. Maybe it had something to do with the stark blood-red photograph on the package or perhaps the My Bloody Valentine reference on the promo sheet. Regardless, the album's material is far closer in style to ambient dronescaping than shoegaze, as the group's debut full-length finds the trio serving up six long-form and miniature pieces in equally satisfying manner. The trio builds its sound using reverb-drenched layers of organs and guitars—drums and percussion conspicuously absent—and occasionally wraps a breathy vocal mass around it too.

For almost sixteen minutes, “The Cold Light of Silence” drapes de san Miguel's ethereal murmur over a beatific haze that turns even more church-like when the vocals drop out a dozen minutes in, leaving immense, cathedralesque chords to intone in their absence. In “Passing, Daydreams,” a shuddering and blurry mass quietly roars for eleven minutes, the chords of its melancholy song splintered into shards within the vortex. At the opposite end of the temporal spectrum, “Dusted” breathes shoegaze fire for a too-short three-minutes, while “True Love Will Find You in the End” catches one off-guard by ending the album with a shoegaze-&-country ballad (featuring near-buried vocals by producer Matt Rösner). Elsewhere, the stately title track and “We Are the New Romantics” ride blissed-out waves of crushing, guitar-based drift and distortion. A strong showing all around.

May 2010

http://www.textura.org/reviews/ghost29megacycles.htm

The Ghost of 29 Megacycles last show (for awhile at least)

This is perhaps the last Perth show of The Ghost of 29 Megacycles as Greg, Karen and Matt. The band will exist in some shape or form but not in Perth. We are proud to play our last gig supporting the amazing Matt Rosner as he launches his limited edition cassette at Kulcha.