…themes like memory, loss and regret are examined obliquely through wistful piano, effects like ghostly reverberating voices and layering of instrumental textures and echoes…
ALBUM — 2020 with Safetynett
…they push the exploration of atmospheres through texture and timbre. We wander through finding overlapping and vocoded vocals, extended structures where it’s not always obvious what’s a musical workout and what’s a carefully calibrated arrangement…
ALBUM - 2020 with Safetynett
…the brothers have created a wider soundscape for the tunes and songs to inhabit using electricity, layered guitar parts, drones, loops, harmony singing, effects boxes and whatever percussion and other instruments were available…
ALBUM - 2020 with Safetynett
Deconstructing familiar modes of songwriting and using beat, synth and loop machines to inform structures as well as textures, the words disappearing altogether in some cases… Made and played by Jamie Flett with some synthesized assistance and groove programming from Safetynett.
ALBUM - 2017 with Safetynett
Attempts at recording and producing relatively non-experimental song structures in experimental ways. Played and made by Jamie Flett with assistance from Safetynett.
ALBUM - 2017
RADIO PROGRAM - Broadcast on Radiophrenia - 2015
An assemblage of music makers' spoken words and played sounds enquiring into why they make music, with hints of how and what for. Voices and tunes from outside the music 'industry' examining their motives and process.
The Flaming Jets and I convened in The Lizard Lounge (or Kev and Andy’s living room, accessorised with many microphones and some cameras) and recorded a live acoustic session…
ALBUM - 2013 with The Flaming Jets
“It is as understandable that a man should undertake a journey into his own mind, and get confused and lost, as that he should discover a new ocean or explore a new continent...”
- R. D. Laing
ALBUM - 2012
By turns lamenting, uplifting then sometimes angry and frustrated or downright belligerent with a world and a way of life that fall under an occasionally jaundiced gaze.
ALBUM - 2009