The People’s Republic is excited to finally welcome an outfit whose members traverse decades of the best experimental music Sydney has ever produced, in a rare performance with their full line-up...

dprk
with
PETER FONDA

FRIDAY June 27th
at 7 p.m. [doors at 6.30]

dprk – the trio of Richard Fielding (Severed Heads, The Loop Orchestra) on synths, Nick Dan (xNoBBQx) on electronic drums and synth, and Juke Wyat (Loop Orchestra) on guitar and electronics – have recently released their latest opus Dragonfly Mountain and completed a major Japanese tour, and this special Sydney performance sees the ensemble completed with the appearance of Japanese master drummer Yusuke Akai and saxophonist Brett Evans.

dprk’s sound expands into territories rarely explored in the Australian music scene, and the new record is an Eastern infused slice of electronic neo-funk which becomes, in performance, an infectious torrent of beats and samples driving a vital complex of acoustic and electronic instrumentation in a distinctly Japantipodean vein, with nods to Cluster and the sharper edge of Krautrock…

LISTEN TO dprk HERE

Caught like a wild dog in the guitar/bass/drums death trap,
Peter Fonda were forced to gnaw off the trapped limb.
 Their third album, "The Making of Thriller", documents Fonda's recent explorations of instruments unknown.  A fast track between subconscious and witness, this is Fonda's 'jam as magickal ritual' captured in its most pure form yet.  A gonzo selection of lo-fi ambient micro-soundtracks with extended visits to kraut, sampledelia, minimal techno and doom tropicana achieved with hive mind composition and low budget, one-mic-in-a-room fidelity. The meaning is in the act itself.  Gone are the tense guitar-bass-drum blowout antics of the band's first two albums, replaced by the push and pull of vintage synths, tape machines, samplers and analog effects.

The chimneys of our mind spitting out muck from city grime, part ecstasy and part nightmare.  The meaning is in the doing. The punk rock seance. If the question is "How does this thing work?" then this becomes the thing to work with. Nobody knows what these buttons do.  Control is relinquished.  Somewhere in the failings, and errors, and squalls is a fleeting idea of something behind this mortal veil - a golden truth or at the very least a vaguely satisfying answer as to why we do what we do.

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