Forenzics

Forenzics are curating a mini festival on the 2nd of April at The Bald Faced Stag Hotel, 345 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt NSW 2049. It’s from 2pm in the afternoon to 10pm, features about 10 acts – including Defektro, Toy Death, Forenzics, Infinite Decimals, Nhomeas and Baad Jazz with more to be announced. It’s a festival of experimental, improvised or just plain weird music. Go to www.myspace.com/thesoundsunsoundfestival for more info.

Just a really quick one to announce The Sounds UnSound Festival. It’s a mini festival we are curating featuring improvised, noisy, ambient, left-field experimental or out-there rock acts. We’re still in the process off lining up acts – if the above sounds like you get in touch before the bill is full.

It’s happening on the 2nd April 2010 at The Bald Faced Stag Hotel in Leichhardt, kicking off at 2pm. We’ll have around 8 acts so it’s sure to be worth a look if you’re into the weird stuff.

More info to come…

Thanks to everyone who made it down to the Static and SIlence Album Launch, we had a blast! Defektro started off the night in great style with his solo noise show – moving from ambient to drone to full on noise with the aid of bizarre hand crafted instruments played through his huge array of effects. Very very impressive. Check him out if you get a chance!

Following up we had the experimental noise pop of Newcastle’s Crab Smasher, definitely a band after our own hearts, playing an intense and almost punk inspired (post-punk anyone…) set with drums, guitar, bass, keys and occasional vocals.

Varlets were next and made a hell of a lot of noise for a two piece playing a very short crunchy crowd pleasing set with drums, guitar and mixing desk (yes mixing desk…).

We were last up and I could not be happier with our show, I felt we really gelled and were as together as we’ve ever been playing experimental improvised music in Forenzics. Thanks to everyone who hung around to the end of our set, I know midnight is pretty late on a school night.

Also thanks to Sue at the Excelsior for booking us, Dylan for mixing us, Tim for his lighting wizardry, Ed for his video work, and Michelle for the thankless task of selling our stuff on the night.

I’ll be posting some video and possibly a link to a review over the next few days.

Once again thanks for making it such an excellent night!

We’ve finalised the line up for the album launch with the addition of the excellently noisy Defektro from Japan, founding member of the infamous Defektro Noise Army. He’ll be starting at 8.30pm sharp so don’t be late! Also adding to the mayhem will be Crab Smasher from Newcastle, local lads Varlets and of course Forenzics, for this performance consisting of Matthew Syres – guitar, Dirk Kruithof – guitar/vox, Joe Cummins – Trumpet/Kaoss and Evan McGregor – Drums.

All the other details are still the same: Wednesday 17th February, The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills, 8pm to midnight.

So if you like noise/drone/improvised/ambient/experimental or just plain f**ked up music then this is the gig for you.

Check out the new tracks from static and silence on our music page and also www.reverbnation.com/forenzics. Here’s a tasty one to get you started – Womb 1.0

We’re pleased to announce that Forenzics will launch our new album Static and Silence on Wednesday the 17th February, at The Excelsior Hotel (64 Foveaux Street Surry Hills) with supports Crabsmasher (Newcastle) and Varlets, with more to be announced. Come along, we’ll be selling the new disc on the night for a special discount price to celebrate!

Today Forenzics are proud to announce Forenzics Radio – a streaming audio player containing all sorts of weird and wonderful offcuts from the improvised musical process that is Forenzics. Full of unreleased, demo, live and poorly recorded improvisations we’ve recorded over the years with many more to come.

Cover Art for H30. Concept, design and photography by Matthew Syres.

Forenzics are proud to release their self-funded debut album ‘H3O’, an hour-long spontaneous piece of music recorded in one complete take on 8th October 2007. Mixed by Jorden Brebach and mastered by William Bowden.

H3O is a semi-abstract liquid sound world that touches on psychedelia, ambience, art-rock and noise. The band features guitarists Matthew Syres and Dirk Kruithof who, with drummer Ben Eadie, create hypnotic and slowly building currents of sound, from turbulently disruptive noise to serenely calm minimalist textures.

The two guitarists have distinctly different playing approaches; creating a wide array of textures through the use of effects, non-standard tunings and found objects. The music moves from a very electronic sound palette all the way through to unabashed power trio rock sounds.

Rather than an ‘anything goes’ aesthetic of some free music the album has an internal logic and continuity; a group-sound arrived at through playing together over a number of years, and a loose conceptual sonic theme based around water.

Coming soon to itunes, amazon and other online sources.