Soundtracks to unmade movies.
ZAC KEILLER is a musician from Melbourne Australia. He has been a guitar and bass player for fifteen years. With a heavy interest in film score music it has been his ongoing goal to create intense guitar driven sound-scapes with a cinematic quality.
In 1998, jumping the gun and applying the alias Bokor, he released his first album in a quantity of twelve copies. Re-thinking his approach, he shelved the album but not before a few copies made it to Japan and to the attention of late great noise musician Koji Tano of MSBR (both the sound project and record label). At the invitation of MSBR, he performed at the What Is Music festival in Melbourne. For the remainder of that year he hosted a radio show Quiet Noise for the RMIT Syn Radio network that received positive feedback from listeners. He went on to collaborate with Japanese sound artist Kazuya Ishigami on the album Melbourne/Osaka created from field recordings captured in each of their respective home towns. He contributed guitar to the song The Nothingness for the Sonicanimation album Orchid for the Afterworld as well as vocal harmonies on other tracks. He also contributed guitar parts and other noises for their following albums Reality by Deception and Defective Perspective.
In late 2002 and marking the creation of his own micro record label Dreamland Recordings, Zac released his first proper EP titled The Field: a dense trip through an imaginary war zone, created with treated vocals and electronics. He then followed up with another collaborative album titled Dialogue; a single piece of droning and industrial sound-scapes, featuring Argentinian sound artist Pablo Reche. He contributed several tracks for compilations including the track Lost Horizon for the Canadian Petite Sono label. Around this time he found a renewed vigour for the expressiveness of the guitar and began incorporating it into new projects. Continuing on, his music splintered into several projects: Bokor, Rondel Kilgore: acoustic songs, and the short lived Desert Journies. After a massive creative period of seven albums in 2005 he decided to concentrate solely on guitar music, and on turning his attention to live performances.
In mid 2007 Zac joined the improvisational band The Immediatists on bass guitar. The project awarded great freedoms in experimentation and extended jamming. He lasted five shows and roughly four months before leaving to devote more time to his solo work. The end of 2007 saw him perform at The Toff In Town as part of Ben Frost's 6Guitars guitar project: Six local guitarists all playing different chords constantly for fourty five minutes whilst the mix is slowly manipulated into a volcanic wall of sound by Frost via his laptop. An exercise in endurance, the performance literally resulted in bloodied fingers by some players.
Presently Zac works under his given name. His works are available directly via Paypal from this page to anyone who may want them. New recordings are underway with an album Hillingar and EP Atlantis is Dead adding to an existing catalogue of over thirty recorded works. A self released series of limited online split EPs with various local and international guitarists is in the works. Along with these there are numerous albums slated for a 2008 release on the labels: Tentacle Beast (U.S.A.), Gears of Sand (U.S.A), & Trace Recordings (U.K.)
Working with local audio visual venue Horse Bazaar he curates a regular series of instrumental/ambient music nights featuring a mixture of greater/lesser known local and international artists.
Listen here here
And here here
Zac Keiller Live at the Noise Bar (download)
Coming soon, a series of split and collaborative releases between friends and musical cohorts. Each release will be packaged in full colour abstract sleeves featuring both the “torso†art of Arthur Karanikas for some and C. Keiller for others. Each run is limited to 50 copies.
ZAC KEILLER / GERMAN SHEPHERD
