sam hamilton

Music:

Member Since: 9/21/2006
Band Website: even better - audiofoundation.og.nz
Band Members: myself as myself. - The Absolutionists - myself, Chris O'Connor and Dean Roberts, ecstatic universe music. - City Peoples Farmers Music - myself and Mark Sadgrove aka mhfs keep your eyes peeled for new 3" on Japanese label Black Petal
Influences: plants, Infinitesimal, borbetamagus, circles
Sounds Like: some recent reviews?.................................................... .......review from WIRE MAGAZINE November.................................................... .......SAM HAMILTON "Low Hill" CLAUDIA 3" CDR Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Sam Hamilton works through various media, including groups such as City Peoples Farmers Music and Muffin Seeks Sunship, and film collaborations with Eve Gordon. But he's known mostly for his solo recordings, of which the nine minute "Low Hill" is a fine example. Hamilton digitally edits recordings of busy, shuffling percussion and pinging guitar harmonics into a short suite loosely held together by low, abraded drones. All the action happens thanks to Hamilton's deft editing, as he cauterises little moments of static and smears them across the dashboard. Towards the end, he starts humming along absentmindedly, inserting the auteur's presence indelibly into the frame. (Jon Dale)....................................................... ............................................................ ................../////review from VITAL WEEKLY 549 ............................................................ ..................................................SAM HAMILTON - THE BORDERS OF THE GARDEN PATHS ARE OVERGROWN (CDR by Transient Recordings) This is not our first encounter with Sam Hamilton. Only two weeks ago he was here as part of Muffin Seeks Sunship, who had a release on CLaudia, the same label who released his 3"CDR 'Low Hill' (see Vital Weekly 515). 'Please listen to it as if it was no different than music made by an origami crab playing a cucumber' it reads on the cover, but does the crab also knows how to play guitar, electronics, field recording, piano, computer and gong? Perhaps it does, but perhaps not as sophisticated as Sam Hamilton. The release has three tracks spanning just over twenty-six minutes. Whereas 'Low Hill' brought back the music of Dean Roberts, the overall atmosphere on this new release is much more dreamier and more minimal. The improvisational element of 'Low Hill' seems to be gone in total favor of composition. The nagging piano of 'Do Nothing Garden' with low key electronics is the centre piece of the release, slowly and minimally developing and unfolding it's beauty. The opening pi ece is a much shorter piece of swirling short electronic notes that slowly evolve into feedback and closes with piano notes. Also a moody piece, which can also be said of the closing piece, field recordings of fire works. Moody, atmospherical and in many ways very un New Zealand music, which is perhaps a very good thing. (FdW) Address: http://www.darcy.co.nz/transient
Record Label: A Binary Datum, Claudia, Transient, CMR, Seedy R +
Type of Label: None