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- The stratosphere, troposphere and mesosphere have aligned. Dissonance, harmonics and distortion have converged. Somehow, like astronauts re-emerging from a subterranean bubble, they have returned.
It has been thirteen long years. What were they doing? Where have they been? Somewhere, perhaps under a Manhattan substructure, or maybe above a spiral nebula, we know they have been doing something. But what?
Probably checked out. Gone exploring. Pioneering tonal semiotics, developing rhythmic syntax, plugging in, turning up - creating sheer bloody massive slabs of awesomeness. What atmospheric resonance or thermodynamic vibration have they traversed? Who knows? Just listen. Turn up. And imagine.
Strobosphere does not exist in a vacuum. Like all codes, communication plus context equals meaning. Logic, signs, systems – both human and non-human- it is a grand narrative. Date. Time. Location.
Before Bailterspace there was The Gordons. Formed 1980, Christchurch, New Zealand. Future Shock 1981, still electrifying. Then, there was Nelsh Bailter Space. Then Bailter Space. Alister Parker (guitar, bass), Brent McLachlan (drums/percussion, samples) John Halvorsen (bass, guitar) - the core. Hamish Kilgour (The Clean) and Ross Humphries (The Terminals, the Pin Group) came. Then they went.
Over seventeen years Bailterspace mobilized recording technologies to capture audio. They organised noise. Audio was reproduced into seven different longplayer phonographs. Tanker, Thermos, Robot World, Votura, Wammo, Capsul and Solar 3. Plus manifold extended player (EP) phonographs. These were disseminated via Matador Records and Flying Nun Records. The populace procured the multiple reproductions of this audio. They were amazed at what they heard.
From Christchurch, which is also the only air departure terminal for Antarctica, the band migrated north. First Wellington in New Zealand, then New York, in the United States of America. In many urban settlements Bailterspace performed their work to the public. It was a mosaic of radiant frequencies. Metrics and decibels. In 1999 the mass media communications outlet Pitchfork described them as "a huge mess of sound that's simultaneously beautiful, jagged, atonal, and supremely melodic"
Then, shortly thereafter, they disappeared. Silence. Thirteen years.
But now, they have returned. They have delivered. Strobosphere. Eleven songs.
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BAILTERSPACE - AUCKLAND SHOW PHOTOS
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 23:28 0 Comments 0 Likes
Bailterspace have just played three New Zealand shows - their first in around 13 years. The shows were St. Jeromes Laneway festival, Wellington (San Francisco Bath House) and Auckland (The Kings Arms).…
Bailterspace Play Two Extra Shows: Longer and Louder!
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 17:29 0 Comments 0 Likes
After their killer Laneway set on Monday, the original line up of Bailterspace have just announced two more New Zealand shows.
Now is your chance to see and hear them, intenser, longer and louder. Much louder. At Laneway their set included the Gordons "Machine Song" and Bailterspace…
Continue NEW BAILTERSPACE VIDEO FOR "WORLD WE SHARE"
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 11:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
Stuart Page - who shot the video also writes the below about the video:
The “World We Share” music video project in New York City turned out to be quite a memorable affair, as after doing the first shoot with Alister Parker one evening at the site of a geodesic neon sculpture in Madison Square Park,…
Continue PHANTOM BILLSTICKERS AND ARCH HILL TEAM UP FOR A FREE BAILTERSPACE DOWNLOAD
Posted on October 5, 2012 at 13:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
The most excellent folks at Phantom Billstickers have put together once of those fancy QR code things so when you are out walking the dog you can also do a quick pickup of a free Bailterspace track...just point your handheld…
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