1/3 Octave Band is the ambient/noise/drone project of Jules Desmond (Black Boned Angel) and Bill Wood (Birdcatcher) who conjure slow moving walls of eerie and epic electric guitar. Active since the late 90s, they've released a huge discography on labels like Celebrate PSI Phenomenon and Pseudo Arcana.
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The improvising duo of Bridget Kelly (reeds, harp) & Peter Liley (saxophone & electronics) will combine their unique creative voices and impeccable musicality moving from lyrical melodies to unearthly growls, creating meditative yet visceral compositions in real time.
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Erika Grant and Zac Winterwood join forces for a performance utilising hammer dulcimer, shruti box, 12 stringed acoustic guitar, and other various instruments.
Erika Grant is a musician and astrologer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She has 30+ years musical experience in bands including Orchestra of Spheres, and Cookie Brooklyn and the Crumbs. Over the past few years Erika has developed a sound bathing practice using gongs, bowls and chimes. She is interested in the healing properties of sound for mental and physical wellbeing.
Zac Winterwood (NZ/AUS) is a musical outlier whose art lives within the tradition/discipline of minimalism. Since the late 1990s, he has been a purveyor in the art of noise, ambient, drone, field recording and experimental music, whose work has been compared to Low, Terry Riley, Brian Eno and Neil Young.
RNZ Interview with Erika Grant
$20 door sales ($10 unwaged)
Special thanks to CNZ for supporting Pyramid Club's programme
