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This project is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Governments’ arts funding and advisory body, the Canberra leg of the tour is presented by www.birdslovefighting.com and supported by JW Sparrow & the Miner Birds.
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The Scrapes, formed in Brisbane late in the summer of 2008, are an unusual duo of feedback drenched guitar and scraping, epic violin.
Their music is rooted firmly in the traditions of western classical music while representing an attempt to transgress them. It is music that evokes landscapes and acts of nature as well as cerebral landscapes.
Inspired equally by composers such as Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and La Monte Young, sound artists and pioneers of the drone such as Tony Conrad and Spacemen 3, and the dark, demented sounds of the underground of rock music, The Scrapes can be at once immersive and chaotic in a live setting where wild improvisation and high volume come into the fold.
Having notably received acclaim from UK rock musician and writer Julian Cope for their hand-made CDr, The Scrapes’ debut album Electric Mourning Blues is due to be released in April/May 2010 to much anticipation. The Scrapes will be touring the East Coast of Australia in April 2010 funded by Sound Travellers, an initiative of the Australia Council for the Arts.
"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and lost times from beyond the beyond. Mostly, violinist Adam Cadell conjures up a fabulous and heathen see-sawing from his machine, kicking up a down home/back porch Henry Flyntian dust that guitarist/axe wielder Ryan Potter orchestrates with apocalyptic power chords and huge crunching rhythms."
– Julian Cope (www.headheritage.co.uk) gold with local supports
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