Recorded at The Tranzac, December 6, 2015.
No Octopus Dances – [set 1, first piece excerpt]
No Octopus Dances – [set 1, second piece excerpt]
Quoted from Mechanical Forest Sound
Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), March 23, 2016.
A rare evening manifestation of a grouping usually seen on a Sunday afternoon, this splinter faction of No Angels Dancing (Allison Cameron and Stephen Parkinson) and Octopus (Germaine Liu and Mark Zurawinski) played a couple sets of spontaneous electroacoustic spatter wrangled by organic percussive clatter. Sonic ingredients include the yawing noise-taps of Parkinson’s guitar; Cameron’s tapes, keyb and ribbon synths; and stereophonic percussion ranging from gentle brushwork to abstract bow-sawing.
Recorded at The Tranzac, April 20, 2016.
No Octopus Dances – [set 2, first piece] (excerpt)
Quoted from Mechanical Forest Sound
In light of Inky’s valiant escape from captivity, there was some talk from the stage on whether the band’s moniker, at least on this night, should be the more celebratory “Octopus Dances”. Meanwhile, percussionists Germaine Liu and Mark Zurawinski challenged themselves by stripping their kits back to no more than a snare apiece, along with a variety of bricabrac at their feet. There was still plenty of inventive rings and rattles while Allison Cameron mixed in some distorto-banjo to her warped keyb jigs and Stephen Parkinson added his stabbing guitar worries.
Recorded at The Tranzac, December 6, 2015.
No Octopus Dances – [set 1 excerpt]
Quoted from Mechanical Forest Sound
Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), April 20, 2016.
After a seasonal break to regroup following the departure of drummer D. Alex Meeks, the remaining No Angels Dancing (Allison Cameron and Stephen Parkinson) returned in this reformulation that joins them with Octopus, the eight-limbed co-drumming duo of Germaine Liu and Mark Zurawinski. The percussion is in stereo here (Liu on the right and Zurawinski on the left) giving a newly-unsteady foundation for Cameron’s synth-bobbing/sound-making and Parkinson’s guitar skinning. You’ll now be able to find this quartet in action at The Tranzac on the first Sunday afternoon of the month.