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About Me

The Boy Who Spoke Clouds began as the solo project of Adam Casey, guitarist and singer of the now defunct Seascapes of the Interior. Slowly it has evolved in various formats, currently a 3 piece.
The Boy Who Spoke Clouds, featuring acoustic guitar, banjo, piano, melodica, violin, drum-kit and etheric vocal harmonies, explores the full dynamic range of acoustic instrumentation, proving that a band can sound large and harrowing without amplification. The ensemble engages in the pummelling sound of artists such as the Swans and Godflesh, but take this sound outside of the amplified arena and attempt to achieve the same fullness with acoustic instruments. The ensemble simultaneously embraces the delicacy and sparsity of devotional classical music, conjuring artists such as Popol Vuh, Henryk GÃ³recki and Arvo PÃ¤rt. The combination of these disparate musical traditions is unexpected, yet somehow, the sounds unite into a glorious whole, taking the audience on a dark journey into the human condition.
A debut album from The Boy Who Spoke Clouds has now been completed and will be released soon. There is also an EP/storybook coming out soon featuring the wonderful artwork of Jenny Oakley (www.emptyvesselart.com).

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Member Since: 10/20/2005
Band Website: theboywhospokeclouds.info
Band Members: The Boy Who Spoke Clouds is:

Adam Casey (guitar, voice, banjo, programming, found sounds)

Jenny Jo Oakley (piano, voice, melodica, clarinet, guitar, visit our other project at ww.myspace.com/emptyvesselartmusic)

Justin Rhodes (drums, also drums with these guys: http://www.myspace.com/dominaeon).

We are currently on the lookout for a fourth member who plays a stringed instrument to play more decorative parts (fill in spaces and make some noise!): they could play any number of instruments that could work, i.e., violin, guitar (electric and/or acoustic), hammered dulcimer or even something as 'unstringlike' as the vibraphone or glockenspiel. Interested and live in the Melbourne/Geelong region? Then please send me an email: [email protected]
Influences: Popol Vuh, Rachels, Swans, Neil Young, Angels of Light, The World of Skin, Mississippi John Hurt, Labradford, Virginia Rodrigues, Karen Dalton, the Moody Blues, This Mortal Coil, Gordon Lightfoot, Cindytalk, Akron/Family, Animal Collective, Steve Reich, Dead can Dance, Gillian Welch, M. Ward, John Fahey, Latcho Drom Soundtrack, My Bloody Valentine, Henryk Gorecki, Arvo Part, Zbigniew Preisner, Gavin Bryars, The Necks, The Body Lovers, The Paradise Motel, Silver Mt Zion, Talk Talk/Mark Hollis, Steve Roach, Jeff Buckley, Windsor for the Derby, Stars of the Lid, Sigur Ros, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, Hildegard von Bingen, Hungry Ghosts, Nusrut Fateh Ali Khan, James Gordon Anderson, Ry Cooder, Trial of the Bow, Windy & Carl, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Function Ensemble, Led Zeppelin, Hungry Ghosts + the list does not really end, but I will end it anyway!
Sounds Like: dark experimental folk tales
Type of Label: None

My Blog

10,000 plays, holy mackeroli!

Today I got excited because our songs have been played 10,000 times! :)Adam
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:43:00 PST

show at Glitch: are you coming?!

We're playing a show at Glitch Bar/Cinema: an old cinema that in Fitzroy that has been renovated into a performance space. Check them out here: http://www.glitch.com.au We're very proud to...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:48:00 PST

LIMELIGHT SHOW CANCELLED!

Hey everybody,Sorry for the extreme late notice, but our Limelight Show has been cancelled due to the venue been shut down for the past two weeks (we don't know why they were shut down, they haven't t...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:15:00 PST

parting ways with our violinist

Dear all,Unfortunately we parted ways with our very talented violinist this week. Alex will be concentrating fully on his own project: The Cerberus Ensemble (www.myspace.com/thecerberusensemble)...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:32:00 PST

new songs posted

Hey everybody,I have put up a bunch of new songs for you to listen to. Traces is one of the newest things we've done and features the whole band playing. It also features me on the banjo, ...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:06:00 PST

I am the filtration thing

Hi, I'm Jenny. I'm in the band. I've been put in charge of the filter system. Adam says I'm doing a good job. I am the one who will delete you if you spam us. Track you down and delete you. I am the F...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:59:00 PST

interview on 3RRR on Sunday

Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know that we'll be interviewed on Melbourne's 3RRR this Sunday the 8th of July (102.7) on Owen's 'Delivery' show at 4:30pm Australian time to promote our next sho...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:48:00 PST

hacked!!!! (mother fuckers!)

Hey there, My account was recently hacked and I appeared to be sending macy's advertisements to everybody! My sincere apologies to all who received this spam. I fucking hate spam (and mac...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:08:00 PST

Interview in Local Anaesthetic

We were recently the front cover feature story of a local zine from Geelong entitled 'Local Anaesthetic'. They also used Jenny's paintings on the front cover and throughout our article. Th...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Sun, 20 May 2007 01:46:00 PST

new songs uploaded

Hi everybody, Uploaded some "new" songs, although most of them have been around for a while. You'll find 'Where have we gone?' and 'Separate' on my self titled album which I'm hoping to get a r...
Posted by The Boy Who Spoke Clouds on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 06:56:00 PST