Forenzics

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…

Flyer for seminal UK free improvisation collective The A Band. Featuring supports Forenzics, Violence in Action and Hinterlandt. Tone, 16 Wentworth Ave, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia. 5th April 2011

Thanks to the wonderful guys over at Bird’s Robe, we are proud to support seminal UK free improvisation collective The A Band.  More info to come…

…a night of improvised, experimental or just plain weird music featuring Forenzics, Jusgo Mosh, UND and Espadrille. Tuesday January 25th 2011 at The Excelsior Hotel, 64 Foveaux St Surry Hills. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets are $10 on the door.

To listen and download free tracks by the artists click this link.

For more info including running times, details of the bands, and to RSVP go to the Facebook Event Here.

Tour may be a slight exaggeration but it is our first time playing out of Sydney metro, inner city scumbags that we are. So we’re heading down to Austinmer on Thursday the 11th November to play a gig for the 1/4_inch crew at The Headlands Hotel along with P.A. and Clocks and Clouds. Doors open at 8pm, only $5!

From 1/4_inch…

Audio and Video in one seamless feedback loop. Phil Williams and Andrew Gaddow return to 1/4_inch to give Wollongong another amazing show of light and sound. The beautiful melodies, purpose built instruments and haunting tones of Clocks and Clouds will take you to another dimension and 1st timers Forenzics an improvised musical collective from Sydney play psych, drone, art/post-rock, and post-punk leanings make their debut at 1/4_inch with VJ Shahane Bekarian.

We’ll be playing with Finn Ryan on drums, Joe on Trumpet on Kaoss, Dirk on who knows what , me on the usual assortment of pedals connected to my guitar, and Red Cell on visuals, all together for the first time. Check twitter or facebook for late breaking news.

Please RSVP on the Facebook event here!

Okay loads of news to catch up on….

We’ve played two gigs since my last post. Hopefully you’ve all been keeping up to date via twitter, myspace and facebook. If not – my apologies. We supported the excellent Duchesses at the Excelsior Hotel on the 21st October as part of Bird’s Robe Collective’s Menagerie 2010. Check them out – they a great blend of Mogwai, Sonic Youth, Interpol and even a bit of The Church in there. Joining us on stage for that gig was Finn Ryan on drums who did an awesome job.

On Saturday 30th October we played as part of Electric Brain, a group show consisting of some 15 print, ink, photo and paint artists. We played for the very first time with improvised visuals, provided by Red Cell, projected on a massive translucent screen in front of us – way cool. Video of the show to come…