New live album! With New Zealand in lockdown this might be the next best thing to an actual gig.. Track 1 recorded live at the Fringe Bar, Wellington NZ, 27-02-18 Tracks 2-7 recorded live at Escape Velocity, Featherston NZ, 10-03-18 As part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival credits The Digitator - midi, laptop, vocalDave … Continue reading Escape Velocity: the Electricka Zoo live
Tag: electronica
The Electricka Zoo – new tracks, late 2019
Here's a pair of new (late 2019) tracks from The Electricka Zoo https://soundcloud.com/darrel-hannon/digi-and-dave-black Keyboards & electronica by the Digitator & Dave Black on electric guitar in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, November 2019 https://soundcloud.com/darrel-hannon/jamming-with-dave Get our album if you haven't already!
Other Islands: 2012-2018
fiffdimension vol3 (see also Gleefully Unknown: 1997-2005 and Fame & Oblivion: 2005-2012) brings us into the current decade - with further wide-ranging experimentation and exploration sonically, temporally and geographically, in New Zealand, Western Australia, Indonesia, Okinawa (Japan), and Fiji. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTMQw7roXH0&list=PLtbrBpNjlOHOfvink1dJANU_UFOs6My4Y by Dave Black (acoustic & electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, laptop, bass, tenor saxophone, field recordings, piano, ukulele, sanshin, saron, … Continue reading Other Islands: 2012-2018
Friday 16th March @ Leroy’s
Postscript: thanks for coming along, keep an eye on http://www.fiffdimension.com/the-electricka-zoo for more! _________________ Friday 16 March, 8:00pm, free entry, @ Leroy's Bar, 2 Plimmer Steps New Zealand Fringe Festival: The Electricka Zoo are one of Wellington’s most intriguing new live bands - a duo of live electronica duo by the Digitator, and Dave Black on … Continue reading Friday 16th March @ Leroy’s
Show Me Your House Moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYR8hnRTh70 Our version of a catchy groove, the first track off the Electricka Zoo album... we're working on a music video and maybe a 7" remix, but in the meantime...
the Electricka Zoo album
We're happy to announce the release of the Electricka Zoo's first (self-titled) album. The duo of Dave Black & the Digitator, The Electricka Zoo combine influences from EDM and post-punk avant-garde rock to jazz, reggae, Balkan and Portuguese music. Their self-titled debut album features 8 original tunes by the bass/guitar and electronica duo wrapped in colourful mandala artwork by … Continue reading the Electricka Zoo album
22nd July – Tapioca Dragon, the Electricka Zoo, 1/3 Octave Band @ Pyramid Club
A night of improv, otherworld musics, and ethereal sonic crunch at Wellington’s Pyramid Club, plus an album release for The Electricka Zoo. Saturday 22nd July 2017, 8pm @ the Pyramid Club 272 Taranaki Street, Wellington NZ - $10 door sales The Electricka Zoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n2bjE_Y36Y&w=210&h=113 The duo of Dave Black & the Digitator, The Electricka Zoo combine influences from … Continue reading 22nd July – Tapioca Dragon, the Electricka Zoo, 1/3 Octave Band @ Pyramid Club
the Electricka Zoo on Access Radio this Saturday
Electricka Zoo played live in the studio on Terry's Songwriters Show. It was broadcast on Saturday 15th of April - hear the podcast online. Terry's Songwriters Show is a weekly programme hosted by Terry Shore - who is a singer/song-writer himself. It won Best Music Programme in the Access/ Ethnic Radio category at the New … Continue reading the Electricka Zoo on Access Radio this Saturday
the Electricka Zoo, early 2017
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n2bjE_Y36Y&w=420&h=225 Next appearing at Fringe Bar in Wellington, Tuesday 28th March 2017, 8:45pm. Free entry. The Electricka Zoo are one of Wellington's most intriguing new live bands, a bass/guitar and live electronica duo of Dave Black and the Digitator. They combine influences from EDM, punk rock, jazz, reggae, Balkan and Portuguese music into their own homegrown NZ … Continue reading the Electricka Zoo, early 2017
The Digitator
The Digitator: New Zealand Producer, Songwriter, Vocalist, Drummer, Synth Driver, Live Looping Musician. A fellow traveller from Taranaki, New Zealand, who formed The Electricka Zoo in late 2015 with Dave Black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDjBBiU0Z4&w=420&h=225 We had previously collaborated way back in 1999 as half of the DDPP quartet on The Marion Flow and Waiting for the Drummer