After nearly two years of questing through the audio underworld, wrestling crocodile-headed samplers and taming fire-breathing speaker stacks, Spoonbill has returned to the earth's surface, ready to address his ecstatic followers.
His message: Zoomorphic, a shapeshifting sonic celebration of Spoonbillism. Zoomorphic is set to earn Australia's most unique aural oracle thousands of fresh converts across the globe.
Zoomorphic is the third album by electronic musician Spoonbill (aka Jim Moynihan), following the critically acclaimed Megafauna (2005) and Nestegg (2007). This time around, Spoonbill's anarchic, quirk-funk, glitched-up aesthetic has been forensically finessed like never before, sculpted to a well-bodied medley of groove-based sound art.
The Zoomorphic experience is crafted from an intricate web of edited studio recordings of exceptional musos melded with found sounds, foley folly and synthesised materials, much of which was captured while recently touring across US, Canada, Europe & UK.
Squishy pulsating bass lines carpet the undergrowth, while dirty squelchy synth licks frolic in a warped menagerie of neurotic cyborgs, rattlesnakes, sirens, champagne froth, fireworks and crushed eggshells. The jamboree coalesces to form a single groove shrieking beat-creature, covered with feathers, scales, bells and whistles.
Zoomorphic is a diverse musical mutant for late-night dancefloors, introspective train-rides, and everything in between. This fresh batch of Spoonytunes will captivate fans of glitch-hop,IDM, breaks, psychedelic electronica, folktronica, dubstep, trip-hop and more – but the Spoonbill's mighty call can't be pigeon-holed into any single genre. Some folk call it “vaudeville electronica”, responding to the jovial carnival feel like circus clowns with lobsters in their pants.
The Spoonbill project was born from an egg on a mountaintop in 2003. Since then Spoony has played countless live shows across the globe, from California’s Symbiosis Festival (2005,06, 07) to Nevada’s infamous Burningman Festival (2005 & 07) to Glade Festival in the UK (2007, 08), Shambhala Festival in Canada (2007) & Fusion Festival in Germany (2008). He has enjoyed supporting and playing alongside some of his favourite peers: Amon Tobin,
Tipper, Kid Koala and Bassnectar. Thanks to Zoomorphic, 2009 is set to be the Year of the Spoon!
C & P Jim Moynihan 2009. All Rights Reserved.
All tracks written, produced and mixed by Jim Moynihan.
Track 4 written by Jim Moynihan & Ani McCord
Track 9 is a Spoonbill remix of recordings by The Bird.
Mastered by Dave Tipper
Credits:
Eden Altman: electric & acoustic guitar > track 1, 5 & 9
Bryson Mulholland: rhodes piano > track 5 & 11
Mal Webb: slide trumpet & trumbone > 5 & 6
Mark Connaughton: vocals, organ & flute > track 2
Yarah Bravo: vocals > track 11
Funginears: beatbox & kalimba > track 11
JP Hedigan: lap steel > track 1
Aurora Kurth: vocal samples > track 3 & 4
Thanks:
Eden Altman, Jonathan Chong, Ani McCord, Matt Bonner, Jack Moynihan, Ben Dudding, Kess Dattner, Louis & Emmanuelle, Ben Roff.
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