Forenzics

Been a bit slow on the blog posts but just had to post about this great all-improvised gig coming up.

It’s a Sounds Unsound Presents gig so you know it’s going to be something special!

Featuring a brand new guitar duo comprising Matthew Syres (Forenzics, Strange, Jekyll Switch) and Pete Jones (Whore, Psychic Date, Axis) to open the night, followed by the incomparable Louis Burdett doing a solo set on drums and electronics, then finishing up with Forenzics featuring Joe Cummins on trumpet, Dirk Kruithof on bass, Matthew Syres on guitar and a Special Guest drummer.

Visuals will be supplied by RedCell Disorder – not to be missed.

Doors Open at 7pm, Saturday January 19th 2013.  Tickets are $10 on the door.  Town and Country Hotel, 2 Unwins Bridge Road, St Peters, NSW.

Forenzics are playing a free gig with Psychic Date, Galaxy Fuzz Band and Helpful Kitchen Gods, Sunday 18th March 2012, at The Gladstone Hotel, 115 Regent Street, Chippendale.  We’re on first, a little after 5pm.  Dirk (guitar), Matthew (guitar), Joe (trumpet), will be joined once again by Forenzics regular yet quite extraordinary Alex Slater (drums).  We’ve also got the awesome RedCell Disorder doing visuals for us once again.  Come along for some cheap beer and even cheaper live music.  We’ll also be selling our latest CD Build Ruins released on the New Weird Australia’s New Editions label.

Realtime Arts have posted a review of Sound Series #15, as part of their look into Sydney’s experimental music scene.  We played this gig back in July at Hardware Gallery, Enmore alongside Textile Audio, Secrets and Toydeath, who were in fine form.  On the night we played with Alex Slater on drums for the second time and Joe Cummins on trumpet as usual.  I feel that we may almost have a regular line up now at long last with these awesome players.  Anyway here’s an excerpt from the review.

Forenzics have been around since 2005 but I hadn’t heard them play. With Matthew Syres on guitar and way too many effects pedals, Dirk Kruithof on lead guitar, Joe Cummins on trumpet and Kaos pad and Alex Slater on drums they play loose yet utterly cohesive improv inflected with jazz, rock, drone and psychedelia. Joe Cummin’s trumpet loops and soaring melodies are a particular highlight creating a smoky, sensual atmosphere and the rhythmic interplay, pushing against the metre with loping rubatos, gives the sound an intriguing elasticity. It occurred to me that music is best when it picks you up and takes you somewhere you didn’t know you wanted to go, and Forenzics did just that.

Gail Priest, Realtime Arts, Issue 104, Aug-Sept 2011

For the full review of the entire gig and also a look at The Now Now’s show from round about the same time, go to Realtime Arts website here.  The images from the gig are taken by Lucien Alperstein, Sound Series’ official photographer.

Just a quick one, we’re playing this Friday night at Hardware Gallery, 263 Enmore Road, Enmore, with Textile Audio, Secrets, and the circuit bent madness of Toydeath. Our line up for this one will be Dirk Kruithof on toy guitar, Alex Slater on drums, Matthew Syres on guitar, and Joe Cummins on trumpet/kaoss. Awesome visuals once again provided by RedCell.

Doors open at 7.30pm.

Running Times:

8.15 – Textile Audio
9.00 – Secrets
9.40 – Forenzics
10.20 – Toydeath

It’s also the last chance to see Lucien Alperstein’s exhibition ‘Water and Music’ which features some stunning ocean photos alongside a photographic retrospective of the last 18 months of Sound Series.

Free beer, wine and soft drink!

More info and RSVP on Facebook here.

Our new album Build Ruins was officially released on the 13th June 2011 on New Weird Australia‘s, New Editions Label.  You can purchase the album as a limited edition CD or pay what you like digital download here.

Thanks again to Michelle Barry, William Bowden and Ryota Yamamura for helping us make such an awesome sounding record, and Stuart Buchanan for releasing it.

We are proud to announce the imminent release and launch of our third album, Build Ruins, recorded back in 2009 with Japanese artist Ryota Yamamoto on electronics and Joe Cummins on trumpet. The album was recorded and mixed by Michelle Barry, mastered by William Bowden, and is being released by New Weird Australia’s New Editions label.  The album and poster artwork was created by Heath Killen, New Weird Australia’s resident designer and looks great.   Without a doubt this is our best album to date, both sonically and visually, thanks so much to everyone who’s helped to make it so.

Anyway come help us celebrate at FBI Social, Level 2, Kings Cross Hotel, 248 William Street, Kings Cross, Thursday 16th June, 8pm.  $10.

Supporting will be Domeyko/Gonzalez, Jusgo Mosh and Robot House with visuals supplied once again by RedCell.  It’s also being simulcast on FBI Radio from 9pm, thanks FBI!

For more info check out the facebook event here.

Forenzics gig at Tone 5-04-11 from Shahane Bekarian on Vimeo.

If you missed our intense gig with Louis Burdett a couple of weeks back, here it is in it’s entirety for your listening pleasure. Also available for free download if you just can’t live without it…

Sydney ambient, industrial, trip hop act Film Theory have kindly invited us to support them at the Sandringham Hotel, Sunday 8th May 2011.  We’ll be playing as a two piece featuring Dirk Kruithof and Matthew Syres, both on guitars, for a more stripped back, moody and soundscape inspired set.  RedCell will be joining us once again with his visually projected insanity.  Also supporting on the night will be solo artist Phebe Starr.

As promised in my last blog post, finally got the official forenzics site up and running. Direct link to the new site is www.forenzics.net and to this blog forenzics.net.  There’s also a feed from the blog on the new site so you can keep up to date from the one spot.  I’m still tweaking some things but it’s all pretty much there now.  Go have a look and feel free to comment – now that you can!