BILL DIREEN & THE HAT - "The Flavour of the Meat" LPBill Direen & The HAT The Flavour of the Meat LP (Grapefruit, 2013) "Bill Direen and Hamish Kilgour go back to the early days of NZs Flying Nun label and even earlier, when the members of bands like The Clean and Vacuum would skulk to each others shows in small bars or run down church halls in the suburbs of Christchurch. In 1983, Direen and Kilgour were working within a cats call of each other, Hamish at Flying Nun Records and Bill at his Blue Ladder

describing how the self is shaped by the patterns of life

Uffe utilizes the techniques that have long fueled his reputation as a purveyor of off-beat sonic fusions and delivers a diverse trip that leans into unusual territory with thrilling and unpredictable results

The additions not only augment reality

drummer Anthony Bedard (Icky Boyfriends

2014 at the Sugar Maple

Maybe it is down to the silvery underwater concept that ties each track together – the bubbling pads

As the title Represencing suggests

Footings' sound embraces a sort of inner light derived from folk music

“House Rhythms” uttered the first broken words of man and reprogrammed the artificial intelligence of a brave new world in the same instance of genius

Are these songs being "freestyled

the kind of blasted folk/rock that Xpressway used to deal in

The capricious nature of these experiments opens many different doors of wonder to the curious heads