SKY NEEDLE are a conceptual rock band performing primitive hypnotic music played on home-made ‘unstruments’ invented and operated by Alex Cuffe, Joel Stern, Sarah Byrne and Ross Manning. Sky Needle live in Brisbane, Australia.
- Sky Needle live at Objectophilia
“The music, well, let’s talk about the music. It’s stalking, eerie, the night stumblings of a pot addict; a literal time hammer bearing down the weight of its metronomic corrosive mechanism onto a skull that’s ready to step into flight mode. Oh, and the sweet meandering sounds of what could be a kids’ learners trumpet, but in fact… could be that tacky orange PVC piping? As Sky Needle say, “we are a couple of steps up from banging rocks together in a cave and a couple of steps down from modern music”. You can hear in there, the influences of the repetitive abrasion of 80’s New York post punk/no wave, but it’s got more rhythm and more soul. Perhaps somewhere between post punk and free jazz. Hell, why not throw in a bit of African Folk, outsider noise and distortionist gregorianism? The one-liner describing their sound: Uncle Fester discovers alchemy.” Sarah Werkmeister – Anxious Objects 2009
Joel Stern (latex pump horns)
Ross Manning (elastic dust shovel)
Alex Cuffe (bass speaker box)
Sarah Byrne (voice, percussion)
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