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Spoonbill

The nest of the Spoonbill

About Me

...Spoonbills new album - Nestegg...
release date: 24th March 2007
Propelled by the massive response from Australian and international audiences, and the successful release of his debut album Megafauna, Melbourne-based electronic producer Spoonbill lays his anticipated second album: Nestegg.

Spoonbill’s latest call from the wild is both cerebral sonic entertainment and smoothly-beaten groove, coming together as a heavily edited fusion of live recorded instrumentation and fabricated electronica. From antique tones to genre-warping sound art, Nestegg is a mastery of chaos. Enticing listeners with its smooth, shiny shell of downtempo tunes, Nestegg breaks open to reveal a thick and fast-flowing yolk of intricate beat chemistry.
...Spoonbills debut album Megafauna...

Megafauna is an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend. From its richly textured electronic centre to the live licks around its jazzier edges, Megafauna celebrates and pokes fun at colloquial Australiana.

Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Megafauna takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with AM talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.


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Member Since: 12/15/2005
Band Website: spoonbill.net.au
Band Members: Spoonbill aka Jim Moynihan
Guest musicians who sometimes grace the stage and the studio: Bryson Mulholland: rhodes piano, flute. Eden Altman: guitar, bass Jack Moynihan: guitar, bass. James Maguire: double bass. Aurora Kurth: vocals. Syncronised live video projections by King Aphid and Djak.

Influences: Amon Tobin, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Bonobo, Aphex Twin, Kid Koala, Prefuse 73, Cinematic Orchestra, President Schnitzel Head, Hexstatic, Tipper, The Glitch Mob, Tipsey, Hermitude, Dj krush, Stock Hausen and Walkman, Dummy Run.
Sounds Like: ... an elegant and quirky symphony of honey-scented grooves, jovial humour and joyous beat trickery, melding an ever-evolving array of styles into a distinctive ozzie blend. Call it quirk-funk or downbeat with bite, Spoonbill takes the listener firmly by the scruff of the ear and leads them into a shady forest of rhodes, horns, and deep double bass, then back out into an eccentric wonderland of glitched-out grooves infused with talkback radio and rowdy bush cobbers.
Record Label: Omelette
Type of Label: Indie