Tuesday 15 October 2019

Rampant Rampage on the Ramparts

Well here it is...the last of my live self-bootlegs from my recent Euro tour. Recorded in Bayonne for Bastringue #42 with Eugene Chadbourne. We performed under a tree, on some ancient ramparts, to a great crowd. Eugene and I did perform a duo but unfortunately not captured here. If anyone has any footage feel free to share. Pick it up for a couple of quid and hell I may even be able to afford to visit your town one day. https://adamcadell.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-ramparts Thanks to Iban once again for a great time! Don't worry...you'll all hear more of my racket soon enough - new Delphine Dora LP will have me on it....Kahl, Erik, Eugene (Carchesio) and I still have The Quartet for the End of Time recordings to unleash on all one day....new The Scrapes sounds/activities are rumbling from the beneath the gutters...Street Music Vol. 2 is finished and mixed and I will get that out there eventually...and I'm working on the next solo record to follow up Bush Songs (which will most likely not be very solo)...yep.



Tuesday 8 October 2019

The Quest to Find the Golden Picnic Table

Sunday 29 September 2019

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Monday 23 September 2019

New Adam Cadell Release

Part 1 of a series of live recordings from my recent ramblings around Europe....


Sunday 25 August 2019

Onwards to Bearn!

NEXT GIG COMING UP IN THE MAD WANDERINGS OF YOUR TRUSTY SUBTERRANEAN FIDDLE SCRAPER.....SUMMER BUMMER WAS A BLAST!!


Wednesday 21 August 2019

SUMMER BUMMER COMING RIGHT UP!

Greetings all from Antwerp...

I'll be playing at the upcoming Summer Bummer fest starting Friday afternoon. 

Will be playing twice...




Sunday 4 August 2019

Fiddles Over Europe

Well well well. Hello there. I'll be hopping on a plane next week and heading well north to hang out in Finland, Belgium and France. All started with a chance to play at the amazing Summer Bummer Fest 2019 and has now resulted in this mess of gigs and wanderings. See you out there.

16 August – solo + Aino Juutilainen, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki, Finland, 19:00, DETAILS
18 August – solo + Pekko Käppi, Vastavirta Klubi, Tampere, Finland, DETAILS
23 – 24 August – solo (24th), w/ Ada Rave/Jasper Stadhouders/Pak Yan Lau/Audrey Lauro (23rd), Summer Bummer Festival 2019, Antwerp, Belgium, DETAILS
27 August – solo + Artús, Buvette du Lac de Bious-Artigues, Laruns (64), France, DETAILS 
29 August – solo + Eugene Chadbourne, Bastringue, Bayonne, France, DETAILS



Sunday 28 July 2019

Digital Anarchy



That's right all if CDRs aren't your thing (what's wrong with you?) then you can get the new Tony Irving/Adam Cadell Duo album digitally on our bandcamp as per above. Our previous release, "In A Kitchen", recorded in the high tech confines of an actual kitchen, is now also available as a "pay as you like" (aka FREE if you're too cheap/broke to pay anything) download for the first time. Yes please. Go on then.


Tuesday 16 July 2019

New Chocolate Monk CD release of Tony Irving/Adam Cadell Duo!!!

New release on Chocolate Monk by Tony Irving/Adam Cadell. Some serious cyclonic brain bruisers from the 2 of us for you all. Get in there before there's none of them left...and there might not be much left of you once you give it a spin! http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.html

TONY AND MY BANDCAMP

Saturday 29 June 2019

Neu Noize

New noise up on Bandcamp for pay-as-you-like DL. Solo drone mind melt. Lasted 2 hours straight at the time and was so loud and unending - in the vaguely cavernous Sidney Nolan exhibition space at MONA - I got heckled by a lady who recommended I buy some ear-plugs for me and I guess everyone else...I dunno...I couldn't hear her. Fortunately her whining doesn't come up on this audio. Had to cut the performance in half to 2 movements if you will for this document.

    

 Cover Art is more weird work-avoidance by yours truly (thank you temp agency for kindly sponsoring my visual art ambitions).

Please consider downloading and chucking me a couple of pennies along with the previous installment (Vibrations for Sarcophagus, named as such because I was set up in front of an actual sarcophagus above The Void at MONA to make weird noises while people stuffed themselves below with an odd array of avant-garde canapes. Yep. The nice guy helping me set up had to check that the vibrations wouldn't damage the sarcophagus) up there as it will go a long way while I wander the streets of Europe in August with appearances in Finland, Belgium (Summer Bummer Festival 2019!!) and France, solo and with the Artús legends.

Both of these MONA - Museum of Old and New Art recordings were made during 3 days of live performances for the opening of Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni's installation 'The Everted Capital', a 24 hour durational work for which I were composer and musician. Both sets of recordings feature music from that mammoth composition/improvisation. It's possible to view an excerpt of the film HERE Keep an eye on that space as those two and I continue to work together with an exciting new long-form project on the go at present. Anyway thanks all for your support and interest. If you've read this far it's probably time to go outside for a walk or something. This social media stuff is incredibly bad for us all.

Until next time,
Adam.

Thursday 13 June 2019

Dredging

Well happy Friday to those of you for whom that matters. In the next installment of blathering garbage about my work I'll fill you in on Barbarian Meditations, an album recorded, mixed and mastered by Ryan Potter - the other member of The Scrapes for those who for some reason don't know that - in his old family home in Alderley, Brisbane. This one is my little attempt at paying tribute to the atmospheric aspects of Black Metal music (something that often creeps into my composing/improvising sort of...maybe it's just in my head...some people seemed to get it anyway and some people still pick up on it...and no I'm not interested in the fascist Black Metal stuff...they can piss right off) while also of course drawing heavily on the drooone of Tony Conrad and The Theatre of Eternal Music. It's just me, my fiddle, a loop pedal, distortion pedal, and big beast of an amp - probably Ryan's trusty Vase, because I only own a tiny little "casino" brand practice amp that I've used on almost all the other recordings on that there bandcamp that are amped that is - ample use of vibrato effects and feedback. I think also I was going for a violin version of the image on the cover of T-Rex "Electric Warrior" album with a dash of the proto-heaviness of Randy Holden's "Population II" album. One of these days this will get a proper physical and digital release because I like it. The cover art is a photo taken by my wife of the karst mountains that dominate the landscape of Yangshuo in China where I'd been recently traveling back in early 2012 before recording this one. The next few albums in the series are also from this period where I was well into Tony Conrad in a big way. Lots of drones, drones, drones. Here it be, Barbarian Meditations, your Friday medication:






PS. I SHALL BE VISITING EUROPE IN AUGUST for Summer Bummer Fest in Antwerp and more......more to come...