guitar.
drum kit.
electronics.
voice.
silence.
snow.
winter.
violence.
we are two persons of middle class suburbia surrounded by models of free market economics. we have played shows in australia, malaysia and singapore with adrian klumpes, blarke bayer, ii, anonymeye, cleptoclectics, my disco, leafcutter john, sebastien roux, m.rosner, sanso-xtro, ohana, to the north, spider vomit, akta angkasa, scul hazzards, the rational academy, off minor, sun of the seventh sister, andrew pekler, birchville cat motel, lucky dragons, kk null, candlesnuffer/black widow, guru guru amongst others.
we release recordings on hellosQuare recordings and Low Point .
'5:44/7:31' - two track single (SOLD OUT)
1. 5:44
2. 7:31
Asleep On Trains compilation (featuring 'Soldier Dub') - still available through hellosQuare
'...Stand-out tracks are always hard to choose but Spartak’s ‘Soldier Dub’ (a collaboration between Shoeb & drummer Evan Dorrian), the Leafcutter & Roux collab, and M. Rösner’s track are all favorites.' (Simon Hampson - Cyclic Defrost issue 18 2007)
Fight Songs - Malaysia/Singapore tour EP (SOLD OUT)
Fight Songs is a collection of our single and our contribution to Asleep On Trains with one new track and a version by Library Tapes
1. Soldier Dub
2. 5:44
3. 7:31
4. Red Star Dub
5. 7:31 (Library Tapes edit)
'Ostpolitik' - two track single
Presented as a double business card CD set, 'Ostpolitik' features two very different versions of the same melodic structure that encompasses our notion of 'the jazz standard' and abstraction at the same time
1. Ostpolitik (draft 1)
2. Ostpolitik (draft 2)
split 3" w/ John Chantler (SOLD OUT)
This 3" will feature two pieces each from us and John Chantler (Room40, Fourier Transform). Expect guitar tones, free rhythms and skewed songs. Awesome!
1. Spartak - In This Light, These Children Of Men...
2. John Chantler - Show Me Your Brights...
3. John Chantler - ...No Sad Songs Tonight
'Sunstrokes' - five track single
Second single in lieu of the upcoming album featuring the single from the album, an outtake from the same session and remixes by Part Timer (Moteer, Flau), Cleptoclectics (Feral Media) and Tomasz Bednarczyk (Room40).
1. Sunstrokes
2. Can You See The Snow, Lover?
3. Ostpolitik (Part Timer's Ost Is Ost mix)
4. Sunstrokes (Cleptoclectics' mix)
5. The Bloodletting (Tomasz Bednarczyk's mix)
Tales From The Colony Room - seven track album
debut seven track album spans an emotional landscape that encompasses violence and calm, sleep and tension in a genuine collision of melted jazz, microtonal exploration and post punk attitude, mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k, Room40).
1. 5:44 (reprise)
2. Sunstrokes
3. The Bloodletting
4. Flanders 1914
5. Downfall: National Crackdown On Spitting
6. Station Seven
7. Night And Day
excellent reviews @ Textura.org , Cyclic Defrost , Vital Weekly and Norman Records
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow compilation (featuring 'The National Single') - still available through Sound & Fury
No Signal - four track EP
A mini-album before the impending release of our second album 'Verona' in 2010, this record is 3/4 improvised exploration in the studio and 1/4 live while completely a product of the studio, using post-processing techniques all over these in the moment recordings.
1. In A Field Of Light
2. Sleet/Skid
3. The Distance Between Here And Time
4. Closure
Verona - eight track album
The new album, eight pieces recorded live over two days in early 2009 at the Dorrian's coastal home. Continuing on from our explorations into organic improvisation over the Colony Room tour, 'Verona' sees us tackle new sounds and techniques alongside our well-versed communications on guitar, drum kit and electronics. Features Joseph McKee from the band Snowman and Colombian chanteuse Lucrecia Perez on vocals and again warmly mastered by Taylor Deupree.
1. Morning Prayer
2. The Waves To The Rails
3. Tweezer
4. Pulled By Rope
5. Sleepstalker
6. ...
7. Second-Half Clouded
8. Tape Machine Dream
