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Avida Dollars sweeps across the audio spectrum with sounds varying from otherworldly,Electronically bent, beautiful choral vistas or remains well grounded,firmly rooted in the folk traditions alike.
From the monumental epic tribute to Salvador Dali, to the cutesey parade of Taking Tea With The Parson, the not so lovely and utterly barking pissflaps of Cameron's Britain all the way through to music captured solely on a dictorphone and re:arranged upon a modern tablet device using ReacTable.
In it's duration AVIDA DOLLARS also utilizes ancient lutes, Celtic rose lyre, sublime fiddles,eccentric prog guitars, harmonically sliced Stylophones, primative1980s Casio digital guitars, hand claps, choral sections, pianorg accordion, Moog Theremin, charity shop keyboards, circuit bent amstrad, reverse tapes & loops and acoustic bass.. To not even cover the range on show here entirely.
All constructed to form either vast pollychords or understated counterpoint.
The method of fathing around & crusty composing at it's finest!
Especially for fans of Raymond Scott, Penguin Cafe, Frank Zappa, Mike Patton, Mr Bungle, Goblin, Animal Collective,Tangerine Dream or a.P.A.t.T
Rejoice! For music can exist without boundaries
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This album features these incredible people without which it would notbeven exist : John Joeseph Murray, Philip Butler, Edward Steelefox, David Headon, Emily Hàf, Greg Hoedt, & James Gibson. With additional vocals by Becky Rose & Shane Moroney.
CRAIGUS BARRY:
Onetime prolific singer songwriter turned multi instrumentalist composer. Films scored : Day Of The Stranger (2020), Senseless (2022),
Video shop Tales Of Terror I & ii,
Pocket Film Of Superstitions (2023), I Curse This Land (2024)
Robot Armadillo (2024),
Mr M (2024)
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