Forenzics

Four new T-Shirt designs are available for purchase through our redbubble shop or on the shop page of this website. You can pick almost any colour and 4 different styles – standard, long sleeve, v-neck and fitted. Check ‘em out. From A$30.

Forenzics finally has a proper mailing list running through our reverb nation site. Go to the contacts page and sign up! We’ll be offering exclusive downloads and streaming to folks who sign up in the near future.

Shoji Hano rocks out during his Now Now show on Sunday night in The Big Room, Newtown.

Japanese drummer Shoji Hano completely blew me away last night at a Now Now gig in the Big Room, Newtown. Playing a blistering solo set, his intensity, passion, power and technique left me a little deaf but happy. Check out his website www.shojihano.com. Two laptop acts followed him – one a duo comprising Ben Byrne and Ivan Lysiak playing choppy crunchy sounds, the other Gilles Aubry from Berlin playing field recordings overlaid with some pretty harsh and torturous drones. Check out upcoming gigs at www.thenownow.net.

An intent Jorden Brebach during our mixing session in the Orange Room on Saturday.

We’ve finally managed to nail down the incredibly busy Jorden Brebach to begin mixing our second album. We’re almost half way through the 5 track CD which is almost certainly to be titled Static and Silence. Some teaser tracks to come in the next few weeks…

The Droning Earth guys have kindly included our track The Diving Bell / The Deeps on volume 26 of their free online drone/experimental album compilation series. Check it out here.

Updating the blog is all very well but I realize that actually uploading the pages is the largely vital part of the process that I’ve been very slack about.

Hence the swag of new posts going back a ways. Will try to keep things more up to date…

I don’t think the problems we are having finalizing ours are what most people mean when they talk about the difficult second album. Playing completely free and being open to whatever develops musically, we are not really trying to outdo what we achieved in our first one, or concerned about it being the same but different. For us it’s a different day with a different drummer so there’s a different outcome. So far so good!

The main problem we do have is trying to make sense of the huge 3.5 hours of music we recorded with Evan back in January. It doesn’t sound like that much but believe me it is…. Want to listen through the whole session twice? That’s the best part of a working day right there! As you can imagine it’s really hard to stay objective and even remember the stuff you liked over that time period . Because of all this we weren’t really getting anywhere individually so we spent a big chunk of today going over it together. We’ve now got some clarity about what to include – or at least what not to include.

The second problem is that we recorded a really diverse range of stuff that day; from very minimal almost electronic and static sounding textures, to quite massive sounding weird art rock, plus much that lies between the two. Bringing all this together in one album, plus combining 5 minute pop songs (not literally, you’ll not be hearing us on 2day fm anytime soon…) with 20 minute soundscapes is proving much harder that we thought. And we haven’t even started to mix it yet…

We’ll keep you posted.

Fantastic independent record stores Repressed Records, Bravery Repetition and Noise, and So Music are all kindly stocking our debut CD H3O. Go to the shop page for more info. Then get down there and buy one! You know you want to…

Forenzics and Ryota after recording for an as yet untitled Forenzics album. From left, Joe Cummins, Dirk Kruithof, Ryota Yamamura, Matthew Syres.

Forenzics record with Japanese electronic artist Ryota Yamamura on the 11th May 2009. In our quest for sonic diversity and continuing musical inspiration we took the opportunity to record with Ryota during his brief stay in Sydney. We’d played together last year – complete with our then drummer Even McGregor, and it totally rocked – so we were keen to get together and record it this time. Totally glad we did, some audio teasers and more pics to come. Kudos to Michelle Barry for the sterling recording under difficult circumstances.

Cyclic Defrost gave H3O the once over. Here’s an excerpt:

Forenzics appeals to a tuned ear, one familiar to the art rock world, high on minimalism, completely rebelling against the structured codes that their chosen instruments lend, yet succinctly reveling in their wielding. Providing powerful new landscapes of sound, abstracted estranged music that is becoming uncannily familiar and growing fonder in the ear of this ‘noise’ avoider.

Check out the complete review at http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/blog/?p=3012