Sooterkin Flesh

Music:

Member Since: 14/11/2007
Band Members: Troy Norfolk (Scourge, God Guns & Guts, Slub, Burr, Christbait, 33 Degrees, Cancrum Oris, U.S.A., Bladdergun, Toll, The Elephantless Trunks) & Rake Heller (Bladder Blade, Pyre Hydrant, Final Death Toll) : Tape machines, cassette-tape-loops, AKS synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, various samplers, casio keyboards, voice, field recordings, toy record-player, record treatments, turntable & stylus treatments, oscillators, various electric and acoustic guitars, bass guitar, zithers, viola, televisions, radios, power-drills, 44 gallon drums, water tanks, kick drums, floor toms, bowed cymbals, singing bowls, buddhist chanting boxes, porcelain baths, sheets of steel & iron & aluminium, hollow metal pipes, bells, alarmclocks, tuning forks, wind-chimes, chicken-wire, assorted tools, fence posts, steel gates, stainless steel sinks, microphone manipulation & empty beer kegs.

Principal Members in Temporary Absence : John Murphy (Nurse With Wound, Death In June, Shriekback, Lustmord, The Associates, Slub, The Wreckery, Knifeladder, Shining Vril, The Dumb & The Ugly) (AKS synthesizer, tape manipulation, effect pedals, floor toms, metal percussion, voice, samplers, drones and bowed cymbals). Gordon Fukushima (samplers, tape manipulation, metal percussion, radios)

And at various times, incarnations, performances, recordings : Mark Connors (Lump) (metal percussion, zithers, microphones), Jaysun Van Den Boogert (God Guns & Guts, Cancrum Oris) (samplers, voice, bass & electric guitars), Carl Thomas (Steak Kave, U.S.A.) (metal percussion), Spike K (Bastard Squad, Womnal, Scourge) (metal percussion), Jake the Snake (metal percussion), Jak Perception (Kids On Death) (electric guitar & effects), David Brown (The Dumb & The Ugly) (tape manipulation), Michael Sheridan (The Dumb & The Ugly, No) (electric guitar & effects), Laura Swanson (viola), Matt Bastard (Bastard Squad) (metal percussion), Matt Skitz (Damaged, Terrorust, Manticore) (metal percussion), Daffyd McKell (Dyschordiance) (keyboards & voice), Jason V (Christbait) (samplers & keyboards), Phaedra Press (Rope, Womnal) (cello), Mayavi Rupa Norfolk (acoustic guitar, voice), Kristian Schaefer (sound manipulation, objects and voice).
Influences: Non (Boyd Rice), Einsturzende Neubauten, Zoviet France, SWANS, Z'ev, Test Dept, Laibach, Lard Free, Severed Heads, Stockhausen, Jim Thirlwell : FOETUS, Alan Splet (Eraserhead soundtrack) : David Lynch films in general, Philip K.Dick, Ouspensky, Crowley, James Joyce, Mescaline, Pscyilocybin, "Stalker" & "The Mirror" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. "El Topo" & "The Holy Mountain" directed by Jodorowsky.

The Illusion of Silence & The Continuum of the Vaccuum!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned