Music:
Member Since: 3/11/2006
Band Website: elheathmusic.co.uk
Band Members: Eric Heath - Instrumentation, Ideas, Production, Pictures/Artwork, Concepts, Realisation, Frustration
with occasional recorded and live contributions from:
David Bell (Piano, Vox, Live instrumentation)
Oliver Davies (Drums/Percussion/Clarinet)
Sioned Camlin (Drums/Percussion, Djumbe)
and artistic collaborations with:
Georgina Lake
Danny Beath
and pictures my mum takes...
They may not have been involved (yet) but I'd like to mention Remi Fox-Novak, Jack Hunter, Dominic Clarke, Ashley Ferguson, David "Gravy" Thomas, Rob Dunsford, Gavin Nelson, Jon Stolber, David Osborne, Michael and Graham Jones, Fowler+Sumner (aka. the "Haphazard Visual Movement") and everyone else who inspires me, helps me and plays music with me (especially Strap the Button)
I co-run the Green Jam (music) and Platform Alteration (arts collective) nights in Shrewsbury, am a member of the Strap the Button and My Formica Table collectives, contribute to Records on Ribs and record and play live for the Hungry I. Ain't my life busy?
Influences:
Sounds, Feels, Moods, Sound Manipulation, Beat Displacement, Delay, Ambience, Space, Dance, Drill, Noise, Calm, Lo-Fi, Tape Players, Ondes Martenot, Synths, Reverb, Soundscapes, Melodies, Splicing Melodies, Filling Spaces, Leaving Spaces, Jumbled Upness, Improv, Electric, Acoustic, Scores, Soundtracks, Songs, Lyrics, Meanings, Interpretations, Opinions, Pictures like
These , Mixing It on Radio 3 (RIP), I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on Radio 4,
W
Heath Robinson ,
Danny Beath.
I love and admire the following:
Strap the Button, The Hungry I, The Exploits of Elaine, Matmos (virging on obsession), The Dead Texan, Nick Drake, Virginia Astley, Epic45, Harmonia, Hubbard, Can, Sweet Potato, Laurie Anderson, Rob Dunsford, Bjork, Four Tet, The Bad Plus, Edith Paif, Dave Osborn, Michael Andrews' soundtrack work, Cliff Martinez, Circle, Cat Green Bike, Tom Waits, Tim Exile, The Welsh Rare Beat compilations and the artists appearing on them, The Stars of the Lid, Robert Redford for Bedford, Pep le Pew, Neu!, (some) Mr Bungle, Massive Attack's 100th Window album, Golfrapp's first 2 albums (none of the rubbish since), Doves, CAN, Broadcast, Elliot Smith, surprisingly the Dead Kennedys, Beth Gibbons, Portishead, The Dirty Three, Jocelyn Pook, a bit o'Mogwai, Tosca Tago Orchestra, Triosk, Yann Tiersen and "the usual" (Aphex Twin).
Don't try and make sense of that, I can't, and I wrote it.
Sounds Like: EL Heath Winter Soundtrack EP Visual Pilot
ORLive Improv
OR
"It's really monged and really beautiful. I used to stay up with my friend Remi getting stoned and trying to find enough music like it to last the whole night. It sounds a bit like Basinski or ambient Aphex doing the Blade Runner soundtrack." - David Bell (gotcha)
Record Label: Records on Ribs, My Formica Table, Dead Sea Liner
Type of Label: Indie
