My first solo album High Moon, Low Sun was released by Setola di Maiale in 2008. In 2009 I started to collaborate with French label La Station Radar which at first put out Ahata / Anahata - the collaboration with Liam Stefani aka Skitter (sold out). It was followed by my sophomore solo LP Lost. Lost resembles a short histoire de l’amour, complete with instrumental soundscapes filling in the gaps between her narrative lyrics. The album flows like a film, each track constructing a different scene, at times through a screaming violin or through electronic dystopic swirls building the perfect background for her revealing lyrics (Sabrina Lessard). In 2010 the label released another project I worked on with Skitter – The Strongest Walls Open As I Pass.
In January 2011, I took a part in BEKO / La Station Radar, followed by BEKO / Clan Destine Records and BEKO /Hartzine digital release. In May 2011, my 16 track tape collection of lo-fi 4 track recordings called NEO PI-R was released on Clan Destine Records. The cassette sold out and will be re-released by Clan Destine Records on vinyl 12″ LP in December 2011. NEO PI-R is the sonic equivalent of perhaps a Tanguy painting. It is sparse, but filled with both whimsy and deep brooding symbology. This is post-punk from the Gaslamp Era. Andrew Weatheral once titled a Sabres of Paradise album Haunted Dancehall, and that term is a perfect description of this tape (Dafydd McKaharay, Mishka). Pre-order vinyl HERE
My next solo 12″ LP Mars is Heaven is on sale via La Station Radar + Atelier Ciseaux since November 2011. Written in 2011, towards the end of my residency in New York City, the record consist of 8 songs inspired by Ray Bradbury’s “Mars is Heaven”. The story (written in 1948) was a critique of a smug assumptions about the superiority of American values such as: sentimental nostalgia, idealism, and above all delight in the pleasures of the senses. It also expressed deep cynicism about family life, pessimism about progress, and disdain for people in the mass to a degree that approaches misanthropy.
In June 2011 the split LP project with Dirty Beaches – Double Feature was co-released by La Station Radar + Atelier Ciseaux and Night People. Alex Zhang Hungtai aka Dirty Beaches and I are long time friends, artistic allies, and adventurous spirits. We both spent lives traveling between different cities, countries, and continents. The commonalities represented in Double Feature resound in a sense of space and time, a cinematic view of nostalgia. This is not a nostalgia that is trying to re-create the past but an art that seeks to use the presence and power of history to create more content in the present (Shawn Reed, Night People).
In 2009 I was selected for NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists. I was also accepted to Film Scoring Mentorship Program – Composing for the Screen 2009. Sponsored by BMI, this New York City based program selects nine emerging film composers. Since 2010 I have been musically collaborating with TVP Kultura. In January (2011) my piece – Amsler Grid was included in “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt” show at MASS MoCA.
I am a third part of the Glasgow based Hassle Hound. The band has releases on Staubgold, Pickled Egg, Twisted Nerve and Textile Records. Tracks from our records were selected by John Peel and presented on Radio BBC 1.
I was in a few experimental / noise projects based in NYC such as: 3i’s (with Marc Orleans and Pete Nolan), Ozone Swimmers (with Marc Orleans), Franklin’s Mint (with Phil Franklin). I played with Jackie O Motherfucker, Kevin Shea, Wende K. Blass and Scarcity of Tanks.
In the past I composed music for a few theater productions. I also collaborated with Marcus Schmickler (A-Music) on his composition “United Untitled” during The Goethe Institute program called “Sounds D” dedicated to emerging Polish composers.
