Sounds from underground/File N°036

if you rally yourself after the hit of <Drearian> you'll need probably something more chill out, so here it comes <<Paddock>>. we're diving into melodic atmospheres, and it's so good, and we like it. you'll love it and also your friends will love it.


 
0. name of the band
Paddock
1. where are you from?
Albury-Wodonga, Australia.
2. what kind of instruments/equipment you use? do you use some particular record technique? which is your method of composition?
whatever instruments are at hand. The usual. Guitars, drums, bass, keyboards, harmonium. For this album, there were some melodies stored as Voice memos as reminders from which to begin improvising longer song forms. There were also fragments of journal entries used as source material for lyrics. Kishore Ryan, Nick Huggins and I gravitated towards the instruments that felt right for each piece. We played each one through a few times, recording everything as we went and then picked out the pieces we liked the best the next day to compile what became this selection of songs.
3. what do you think about the music context nowadays and how you place yourself in? do you feel a part of any scene?
I feel as though there are as many musical contexts as there are people and environments. The context I most enjoy making music in is either alone, or with loved ones or strangers who are open to improvising.
4. do you think that nowadays has still sense talking about "underground"?
Perhaps. I'm not sure about this question.
5. do you play live? how public react to your music?
I do play live sometimes. Last night I played a series of songs written during a trip to Tasmania. The songs were interspersed with readings from a short illustrated story that I enjoyed making on this same trip. My friend Peter Joseph Head played the cello whilst I played a nylon string guitar and sang. The small audience seemed to be listening. At one stage I heard someone laugh. Once the performance ended there was applause and after the show a variety of people offered words of encouragement and praise saying things like "well done" and "are you going to do it again?"
6. Genesis P-Orridge said "Our records were documents of attitudes and experiences and observations by us and other determinedly individual outsiders. Fashion was an enemy, style irrelevant.". What do your records represent to you?
I love the work of Genesis P-Orridge and Throbbing Gristle. To me, paddock records represent a gathering of people playing, arranging and recording songs in a manner that felt right at the time.