New Album Out 5 July

Dear readers, So here I am self-promoting again. Firstly for anyone who's interested in my work in The Scrapes please head HERE and have a look at the Gig page for info on our many upcoming performances, including one as yet unlisted gig for the Brisbane Fringe Festival in August. But as the subject heading here suggests this is not about The Scrapes, rather this is about a new album coming out through DUSKDARTER. A duo free improvisatory meeting in a warehouse dungeon between myself and Tony Irving (Ascension/Descension) on drums. Tentatively titled "Some Shards For the Void", this album consists of around 7 blistering improvisations for violin and drums that bare some resemblance at times to the wild meanderings of the Revolutionary Ensemble or the messy exploring of the Rashied Ali & Leroy Jenkins duos. But really, comparisons aside, this is a meeting between two blokes blasting out sounds from the heart and guts, and captured by The Scrapes' eagle eared and Soviet microphone-toting Ryan Potter. Excitingly this album will be released as a creative commons online only release at this stage...ie. FREE! On 5 July 2014 with a launch performance, along with Kahl Monticone (who is also releasing an excellent new recording on the same label) at The Waiting Room, West End, Brisbane. This is not to be missed for anyone who can get there. Not least of all because the Waiting Room is a very special venue, a converted Old Queenslander - for those reading not from these parts they're old 19th century wooden houses on stilts - which, like many such buildings, has beautiful acoustics and nice soft floor boards to sit on...and as always it's BYO so you avoid atrocious booze costs at other live venues...I could go on for a long time about what makes this event appealing, but more than anything it's the music. So be there or be irrefutably square. Best, Dr Adams.