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Six Heads

a skeletal carriage drawn by flies

About Me

Based in Toronto, Canada and formed in 2000 from the ashes of the junk instrument collective Urban Refuse Group, Six Heads is an ensemble of six instrument-builders and sound experimenters dedicated to exploring the rarely trodden territory of surrealist sound collage - aware of the trails previously blazed by Nurse With Wound and other audio surrealists but charting their own path by means of free improvisation, homemade instruments, and live mixing as opposed to studio manipulation/composition.

Releases to date:
- Ether
2007, Psychform
- Small, Rubber Voice From The Spectral Furnace
2003, Disembraining Songs
- Six Heads or The Appearance of Hairs Band
2001, Disembraining Songs

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2006
Band Website: recordism.com
Band Members:

James Bailey, William Davison, Linda Feesey, Sherri Higgins, Colin Hinz, Pete Mosher


Influences:

punk and industrial music, DIY, cassette culture, noise, avant-garde jazz and classical music, musique concret composition, tape music, prog/Krautrock, psychedelia, exotica, easy listening, ambient music, electroacoustic composition, electronic music (early to modern), improvised music, world music, spoken word, children's records, novelty songs, soundtracks, field recordings, etc.


Sounds Like:

spontaneous, free form musique concrete resembling dense, shifting sonic dreamscapes with layers of ambient textures and jarring juxtapositions of concrete sound (machine noises, voices, fragments of music, and other less identifiable sounds).


Record Label: Disembraining Songs
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Six Heads on CKLN

Six Heads will be appearing on Jim Bailey's radio show "Electric Storm/A Missing Sense" on CKLN radio this Sunday evening (Feb. 17) at 11:30 pm EST. Tune in to 88.1 fm if you're in the Toronto area or...
Posted by Six Heads on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:55:00 PST

Dead Of Winter fest

Six Heads will be appearing at "The Dead Of Winter Will Not Be Silent" this Friday evening. Details follow:THE DEAD OF WINTER WILL NOT BE SILENTFriday, January 25thKnurlRoman PilatesPtarmiganSix Heads...
Posted by Six Heads on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:08:00 PST

Six Heads Noise Picnic!

SIX HEADS NOISE PICNICfeaturing:BONSAI FORESTRYCATHERINE CROCKETTCHARLES BALLS ANTIQUE SPECULUM REVIEWSIX HEADSUNDER HEAVENperforming on a variety of acoustic and/or battery-operated devicesbring your...
Posted by Six Heads on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:32:00 PST

Robber Bridegroom

Thought you might be interested in knowing that three of the Heads (Bailey, Davison, Higgins) have work in this online Surrealist publication/bloghttp://robberbridegroom.blogspot.com/Some pretty inter...
Posted by Six Heads on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:37:00 PST

another Ether review

Another positive review for Six Heads "Ether" cassette. Go to http://machetemob.blogspot.com/2007/03/six-heads.html- William
Posted by Six Heads on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:31:00 PST

Ether review

Check out what Smooth Assailing has to say about the new Six Heads cassette "Ether"!http://smoothassailing.blogspot.com/2007/03/six-head s.html- William...
Posted by Six Heads on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:30:00 PST

It's Out!

It's out! The new Six Heads cassette "Ether". Follow the bouncing heads to http://www.myspace.com/psychform. Take money with you. Go now!- William...
Posted by Six Heads on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:42:00 PST

COFO at Now Lounge

Six Heads member W.A.Davison will be performing at The Now Lounge tomorrow afternoon as part of Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects. Here are the details:The NOW Seriespresented by AIMToronto and the NOW L...
Posted by Six Heads on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:54:00 PST

new release!

Six Heads' third release "Ether" (C-20) is nearing completion and will be out soon on the Psychform label (http://www.psychform.com or http://www.myspace.com/psychform).More details to follow.- Willia...
Posted by Six Heads on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:07:00 PST

COFO at OCAD

Conspiracy Of Familiar Objects (GFR's Andrew Zukerman, Disguises' John Shapiro, Six Heads' William Davison) is doing a set at Ontario College of Art and Design this Monday evening. Here are the detail...
Posted by Six Heads on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:13:00 PST