Train from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam June/July 2008:From the Sapa region in Vietnam, June/July 2008: Hello. This is a great venue for music in particular, which keeps me going for sure, so: ____________________________________________________  I have put up some old music archives and video clips on these sites (Bands I have been in): www.myspace.com/wondrousfair, www.myspace.com/lamingtons,www.myspace.com/sniffymusicand for a few obtuse musical sketches of my own:www.myspace.com/falseimpressionists, (not a real band) ____________________________________________________ My entry in ABC FM's the ORPHEUS REMIX AWARDS, using an archane and antiquated Ensoniq ASR-10:http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories /s2131724.htm ____________________________________________________ bio: Former member of following Brisbane Bands, variously on vocals/ alto saxophone/ ensoniq samplers/ fx knob twiddling: The Lamingtons, Wondrous Fair, Frankly Zappa (Zappa tribute band), Sons of Bee Gees, Muddy Nolan and the Twisted Hearts, The Nutty Squirrels, Lost in Space, The Safari Suits (live music to silent movies in Fortitude Valley), and once played as guest with My Three Sons at a ZZZ joint effort Qld Uni, and the Lemon Fabs at the old Hacienda Fortitude Valley, presently a member of Sniffy ( a recording only band of guys I have known since High School) ____________________________________________________ Lyric credits include: Tallest Building in Tiny Town, Floor of the Forest, Can You Afford Free Love?, Trouble, Bush Week, Dying Frame, South Pacific, (Fade) Golden Memories, Weird Little You ____________________________________________________ recorded music include: with Lemon Fabs as guest on their vinyl single 'All we leave behind are the Memories' (1987), c.d.'s as follows: in Sons of Bee Gees 'Live', in Wondrous Fair 'Cosmological Clock' (1994) and on 'Spill compilation 1' (1992 - cassette only),'Spill compilation 2' (1993 - c.d.) and 'Spill Compilation 3' (1995-c.d.) (note: these Spill products are no longer available but free m.p.3's are downloadable at www.spill-label.org/compilations.php), c.d.'s with Sniffy: 'Sniffy 2000', 'Sniffy 2001', 'Sniffy 2002', 'Sniffy 2003', 'E-Z Sniffling', 'Fire Ants on the March' ____________________________________________________ music video clips include, in Wondrous Fair: Floor of the Forest, Silence, Biggest Tallest, Steve Smith, Ant Walkover, Mars, and in Sniffy: South Pacific, Weird Little You ____________________________________________________ live soundtracks, in band The Safari Suits (with Leo Power and Neil Neilson) for Brisbane Independent Filmmakers, to Salvador Dali and Louis Bunuel's: L'age Dor, Tarzan King of the Apes (we all bought Safari Suits for that), and the Buster Keaton movies: The Golf Nut, and The General ____________________________________________________ theatre and soundtracks for film: performed with Street Arts (Thrills and Spills Circus)in 1984, and later: musician-in-residence for Queensland Performing Arts Trust’s 1994 Out of the Box Festival in Fractal Theatre’s Scratch and Scrap Opera… also wrote the music for Fractal’s 1994 production of Coriolanus, and did a performance piece with them at Livid Festival, La Boite Theatre’s 1997 productions of Mr Melancholy, and The Shoe Horn Sonata, and the 1998 production of X-Stacy, On Giant’s Shoulders production of Holy Days, and Wolf’s Lullaby, and Purple Pears Production’s Oleanna, and on some movie soundtracks, including (with the Lamingtons and actor Noni Hazelhurst) on Jackie McKimmie’s 'Stations' (1983), and Purple Pear’s 'Shades of..', and a children’s musical 'Red Rock Rebel' with Christine Smale for Nash Theatre 2005 ____________________________________________________
Jan Svankmajer - Meat Love (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQkWrZw05P4
