Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia Recordings
Gail Priest is interested in releasing the hidden melodies and broken beats found in raw sonic material. She manipulates field recordings, random instruments and the tortured voice to create works that explore the fine line between pleasure and pain. Her atmospheric explorations incorporate dirty machinic rhythms and bass-heavy pulsations contrasted with glassy cascades and occasional sweet slippery vocals.
CD Releases
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Presentiments from the Spider Garden |
"The author, enigmatic and hypnotic in the performance, doesn't shy away from capturing the listener's attention…Priest is always fully [in] control of the atmospheres, which sparkle imaginatively but are neither trivial nor predictable because of that. "
Aurelio Cianciotta, Neural, March 2011 (see full review)
"an engaging, enigmatic and hypnotic work…" Oliver Laing, Cyclic Defrost, Dec 2010 (see full review)
"unanticipated exotic territories…There are many creatures in Priest's garden besides common spiders." Caleb Deupree, Furthernoise, Dec 2010 (see full review)
"a deeply rewarding album…" Fred Nolan, The Muse in Music Nov 2010, (see full review)
Second full length release courtesy of Endgame Records. Presentiments from the Spider Garden weaves together field recordings, vocals, instrumental material and extended digital methodologies to create an album that challenges, charms and transports the listener to a mirror-world of revolutionary battles, natural histories and strange alchemies.
Available Nov 1through iTunes, emusic , Endgames' online store (physical CD inc download $25)
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Fear of Stranglers |
Fear of Stranglers Furthernoise Review
Gail Priest has been exploring the timbre and elasticity of sound in a way that has become distinctly her own…[Fear of Stranglers] shows her taking her vocal and sonic manipulations to new levels of textural improvisation and processing…Treading a tightrope between darkness and light, texture and space, Priest creates sound worlds that never feel too gloomy or melancholic. It is this duality in her work which keeps refreshing her sound and charting new directions. (Roger Mills, Furthernoise June 2010)
For Full review see Furthernoise
6 tracks composed over 2009/2010. Extreme vocals and drone guitars, multiply manipulated to make moody soundscapes teettering between lullaby and nightmare.
You can download from Bandcamp (pay what you feel)
OR burned to order with handmade covers
$12 inc gst & postage and handling
via PayPal
Or if in Australia you can email me to order
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28 Songs for a City: Tokyo |
28 tracks documenting the project of the same name undertaken during an Artspace/Tokyo Wonder Site 6 week residency.
Over 28 days I went to different locations in Tokyo to make audio recordings. I listened to the sounds around me and then sang back what I heard, improvising a small tune with the city.
These samples were then manipulated, working with the narrative arc of the recording, to bring out the character of the site. No extra vocal material was added: through editing, filtering, effecting and overlaying, I hoped to draw out the songs of the city.
See the project page for 28 Songs to hear samples
Burned to order with hand made covers
$15 inc postage & handling
via PayPal
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Imaginary conversations in reverberant rooms is the debut CD from Gail Priest released on her own label Metal Bitch Recordings Nov 2006 |
Idiosyncratic and indefinable she weaves broken melodies
and digital debris into potent atmospheres and near-future fantasies.
You can download from Bandcamp (pay what you feel)
Hard copy gatefold $22 inc postage & handling
via PayPal
Or if in Australia you can email me to order
Compilations
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>Audition Records: [ar058] WONDERWERP http://auditionrecords.com/ar058.html, free digital download Recorded at Studio Loos. The Hague, Netherlands 2010-2011 December 2011 |
WONDERWERP CONCERT SERIES is curated by Yolanda Uriz at Studio Loos.
Promotional compilation curated by Julian Bonequi.
Featuring: Xavier Lopez, The Monarchy, John Fanning, Ofer Smilansky, Ariel Ninas, Moonrise Hernandez (Michael Straus & Ted Coffey), Microseq (Pandelis Diamantides), Duel Protocol (Aurimas Bavarskis & Yiannis Tsirikoglou), ZLB (Miguel Cerdeira Marreiros Negrão), Hatzatz (Maya Felixbrodt, Ilya Ziblat, Tomer Harari), Ayankoko, Gerri Jäger, Enka (Nikos Kandarakis), Basshaters (Tony Dryer, Jacob Felix Heule), Visumatic Craft (Claudia Ignoto, Augusto Pirodda, Michele Bagaglio), Luc Döbereiner, Yota Morimoto, Robert Blatt, Marie Guilleray, Gail Priest, Future Fossils (Raoul van der Weide, Takuro Mizuta Lippit aka DJ Sniff, Sanne van Hek)
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>Audition Records: [ar024] SALON BRUIT - Berlin http://www.auditionrecords.com/ar024.html, free digital download March 2011 |
A compilation of Salon Bruit archives curated by Séamus O'Donnell & Julian Bonequi
Featuring: Angie Yeowell (USA); Circuit Parallele (FR); Gail Priest (AUS) and Mangrove Kipling (FR); Hassan Khan (EG); Steffan de Turck aka Staplerfahrer (NL);
Jeff Gburek (USA) and Rinus van Alebeek (NL); The Quiet Club (IE); AntenA and David Vrbik (CZ); Tetsuya Hori (JP); Fake Mistress (DE); Ostear (IE); Sciolist (IE);
Bob Rutman (DE); Preslav Literary School (UK); Hilot Lilanth (DE) and The Evolution Control Committee (USA); DeeMeeTree (RU); HANY (DE); Ayankoko (FR) and Matchees (DE); Lifeloop, Stoerfan Sender, Fake Mistress and Dr.Nexus; Mahmoud Refat (EG)
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> New Weird Australia Vol 5 http://newweirdaustralia.com, digital download March 2010 |
New Weird Australia, Volume Five includes tracks from Vorad Fils (a new solo project from Seekae's John Hassel), Justice Yeldham, Gail Priest, Crab Smasher and Peace Out! (featuring Milo Kossowski from The Emergency), plus new and exclusive music from Mookoid, Dot.AY, Burning Palms, The Atlas Room, ///^^^\\\, Kate Carr, Duns, Caught Ship, Ripples and Blake Freele. The cover artwork is by musician and artist Kris Keogh, formerly known as Blastcorp -and the compilation also features a track from Kris' new project, Red Plum & Snow.
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> Explorations in Sound Vol 3: Music of Sound Furthernoise digital download June 2008 |
A compilation of sound works inspired by the tones, drones and rhythms of everyday life. Featuring Solange Kershaw, Thanos Chrysakis, Derek Morton, Gail Priest, John Kannenberg, Iris Garrelfs & Douglas Benford, Simon Longo, Robert Curgenven
curated by Roger Mills
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> Liquid Architecture 2006 www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/index2.htm July 2006 |
Compilation cd from the 2006 festival including: Faber Castell, Gail Priest, Greg Davis & Jeph Jerman, Speak Percussion, Martin Baumgartner, Philip Brophy, Julian Knowles & Donna Hewitt, Dean Roberts, Duo B&B, Erik M, The Loop Orchestra
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> Transit Lawrence English Cajid Media www.cajid.com 2005 |
Lawrence English surveys a variety of radically different sonic environments and sets them against a rich array of textured electronics.
Featuring audio contributions from John Chantler, Mike Cooper, DJ Olive, Ben Frost, Cat Hope, Tam Patton, Gail Priest, Heinz Riegler, Robin Rimbaud and Philip Samartzis
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> Melatonin: Meditations on Sound in Sleep Room 40 www.room40.org 2004 |
Featuring new works from Chris Watson, Stephen Vitiello, Ai Yamamoto, Oren Ambarchi, DJ Olive, Lawrence English, Pimmon, Marina Rosenfeld, Skist, Timeblind, DJ/rupture, John Chantler, Scanner, Zane Trow, David Toop, Steinbruchel, Philip Samartzis, Barrett, Musgrove, Sinclair, Martin Ng, Tetuzi Akiyama, Frost, Gail Priest, Tim Koch and Janek Schaefer
CD sold out - Digital download available from PostEverything & ITunes