I don't feel any need to leave a greasy trail of promotional crap here. It's music, or noise depending on your point of view. It's generally made with a guitar and some effects. I made it myself with my own hands, plucking it out of the thin air, and you can listen to it if you like.
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PRETTY MUSHROOM CLOUDS
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MAGPIE ATTACK ON THE BACK ROAD TO ALBERT TOWN
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AT LAST A NEW DAWN
London resident and New Zealand native Peter Wright maps the same guitar/noise outlands as his NZ predecessors The Dead C, an acknowledged influence, first blazed through. His kit is an electric 12-string, pedals and, when recording, a laptop. He improvises a digital drone or melody fragment, the loops, layers and adds field recordings. His tools and methods are minimal, but his output is not. Since 1998, he has released 30 discs of solo material, much of it honing the same massive, blissful drift of decay and evolution.
The nine pieces on this two disc set encompass all the forms his approach can assume. There are extended drone forms, agitated textural landscapes and shorter abstract elegies. Yet Wright's touch is an organic one, and the exquisite sequencing here means the pieces coalesce into an enveloping, overwhelming flow.
Wright's music is always a delicate balance between its harrowing ascent towards climax and his cinematic ear for the audio panning shot. For the first three-quarters of the 30 minute title track, he builds an engrossing dialogue out of drifting tones, living tendrils of feedback, snippets of birdsong, and the conjured organ- and string-like timbres. But it's midway through "Blue Light District" that Wright's craft is fully realised. As the chatter of radio announcers appears, one notices they are actual excerpts from the London terrorist attacks on 7 July 2006 (sic). Even at their subtle volume, they disturb the placid ambience, utterly transforming the mood and direction of the piece. Wright excels at this kind of slow poetic reveal, and succeeds in opening up intense imaginary spaces.
Matthew Wuethrich | The Wire
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PETER WRIGHT DISCOGRAPHY
Pretty Mushroom Clouds | Archive Recordings | CD | 2008
Magpie Attack On The Back Road To Albert Town | Dirty Knobby Records | 7" | 2007
At Last A New Dawn | Students Of Decay | 2xCD | 2007
Crater Lake | Blackest Rainbow | CDr | 2007
Folk Songs And Blackness | (...) | 2xCDr limited 'tour' edition | 2006
Air Guitar | Drone Records | 7" | 2006
Red Lion | Digitalis | CD | 2006
Unvarnished, Untreated, Unzipped | The Seedy R! | CDr | 2006
Pariahs Sing Om | Last Visible Dog | 3xCD | 2006
Desolation Beauty Violence | Ikuisuus | CD | 2005
Yellow Horizon | Pseudoarcana | CD | 2005
Red Lion | (...) | CDr limited 'tour edition' | 2005
Distant Bombs | Last Visible Dog | CD | 2004
Desolation Beauty Violence | Foxglove | CDr | 2004
Pariahs Sing Om | Apoplexy | CDr | 2003
Catch A Spear As It Flies | Celebrate PSI Phenomenon | CDr | 2003
The Broken Kawai | Pseudoarcana | CDr | 2002
Distant Bombs | Apoplexy | CDr | 2002
Transfusion | Last Visible Dog | CDr | 2002
Coitus | kRkRkRk | CDr | 2001
In Vitro No.2 | kRkRkRk | CDr |2001
In Vitro No.1 | kRkRkRk | CDr | 2001
Bent Gastropod Omnibus | kRkRkRk | CDr | 2001
A Tiny Camp In The Wilderness | Celebrate PSI Phenomenon | CDr | 2001
Clavius | 20city | 7" | 2001
Duna | Last Visible Dog | CDr | 2000
Automaton | Apoplexy | CDr | 2000
Radioplay | Apoplexy | CDr | 1999
Moments Of Inappropriate Abandon | Apoplexy | 2x7" | 1999
Syncopate | Apoplexy | CDr | 1998
LP No. 1 | Apoplexy | LP/CDr | 1998