Album US 1999 on Emperor Jones label
Electronic and Rock (Avant-garde)
Nigel Bunn is a shadowy figure from the periphery of New Zealand's underground music scene; until now his output has been limited to a couple of tracks on obscure compilation albums. He's better known in Dunedin, his hometown, as a polymath who paints, photographs, makes experimental films, and helps organize art exhibits. Index is culled from years of varied musical experiments. The title track is a stirring fanfare for a looped piano phrase overlaid with distant trumpets. Several paradoxically tranquil pieces are woven from threads of guitar feedback. Others feature percolating antique electronics. Two sullen organ interludes impart an aura of dread, but Bunn's recitations of fragmentary texts in a filtered and sped-up voice are the most disorienting element of all. The album is deftly sequenced so that its disparate elements flow together like a surreal film that one could watch many times without extracting all of its secrets. (Bill Meyer)
Nigel Bunn , album by |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
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1 | Index | Nigel Bunn | ||
2 | Goodbye God Baby Goodbye | Nigel Bunn | ||
3 | Beam | Nigel Bunn | ||
4 | Rusty Red Iron Green | Nigel Bunn | ||
5 | Stonato: The Evocation Of A Strange Love | Nigel Bunn | ||
6 | Tell Me And I'll Let The Mechine Ware Out | Nigel Bunn | ||
7 | Fishious Ikonicous | Nigel Bunn | ||
8 | Little Sea Ditty | Nigel Bunn | ||
9 | Katzenjamer | Nigel Bunn | ||
10 | The World Of Spirits | Nigel Bunn | ||
11 | Hippocampus | Nigel Bunn | ||
12 | Worshiping The Whiteware God | Nigel Bunn | ||
13 | Striartum | Nigel Bunn | ||
14 | Sea Goose | Nigel Bunn | ||
15 | This Day At Home | Nigel Bunn |