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: Taranaki
1999
At the close of the 90s, aged 20, I left New Plymouth, the large rural town in Taranaki province, where I grew up. I moved to Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, where I'd been born and where my 19th century pakeha settler ancestors had lived. My second album, The Marion Flow reflected this journey. It … Continue reading 1999
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!
The Marion Flow (part 1, Taranaki 1999)
"It's lo-fi, organic and about as eclectic as one could manage. Kind of reminds me of Nick Cave if he had grown up in Timaru. No pretentious American accents or catch phrase choruses, just a bunch of people making music. A little beauty!" - NZ Musician, August/September 2002 Produced by Paul Winstanley, & featuring Steve … Continue reading The Marion Flow (part 1, Taranaki 1999)
The Marion Flow, March 2019
Since last year I've been getting back into playing solo acoustic. Here's a 6 March 2019 version of 'the Marion Flow': https://youtu.be/u6NPQtBM0vg Originally recorded in New Plymouth in 1999, it became the title track of my second album. The 1999 recording had quite a different vibe - spoken word delivery, electric guitars panned left & … Continue reading The Marion Flow, March 2019
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
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
The Electricka Zoo
http://www.fiffdimension.com/the-electricka-zoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDjBBiU0Z4&w=420&h=225 https://soundcloud.com/fiffdimension/sets/the-electrickazoo This duo from Taranaki formed in late 2015 following an extended 15 year incubatory period. Roots in rock and electronica, The Electricka Zoo will leave you wondering if you should dance along, close your eyes, or just scratch your head in wonder how two people can produce such a wall of sound. … Continue reading The Electricka Zoo
Scratched Surface
“Worth searching out coz this lo-fi singer/songwriter oddball has a unique take on the genre. He’s pissed off, a tad fucked up (as usual), but not full of lugubrious self-pity (as unusual) and is happy to get raucous & obnoxious in just the right kinda way.” – Chris Knox The debut album from fiffdimension - … Continue reading Scratched Surface
dAdApApA: Waiting for the Drummer
A companion to The Marion Flow, recorded in 1999 by the same lineup who provided that album's longest (and least conventionally song-based track, pointing the way towards the increasingly radio-unfriendly Mantis Shaped and Worrying), "Lucifer Directing Traffic (at 3AM)" Recording engineer Paul Winstanley, head of the excellent, now San Francisco-based avant-garde music label Eden Gully recalls it … Continue reading dAdApApA: Waiting for the Drummer
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