The Surf Messengers

What are The Surf Messengers?

A soundscape co-operative? A jazz quartet? A beat combo? An experimental cell?
We can sound like any combination of these at one time or another.
What you can be sure of is, whatever instrumentation we choose to use, whether it be regular or radical,
the resulting music is always interesting, frequently challenging, sometimes darkly humourous and often extremely beautiful.

Who are The Surf Messengers?

Annie Q, when not trying to find out what noises a milk bottle can make, plays flute, sax and clarinet and creates wistfully twisted lyrics.

Glenda Pescado, if not playing the bass, loves to manipulate noise and mess with off-centred and otherwise effected records as well as heavily-treated, sampled and looped guitars and such like.

Nick Danger is essentially a drummer who thinks the whole world is a drum kit; but he also likes to explore other sounds, usually invovling the unlikely juxtapostion of household objects and can often be seen with his trusty dictaphone in hand.

will whitney likes to hit things with varying degrees of violence: sometimes suspended gearbox housings but often just a guitar or a keyboard.

What do they sound like?

1. taken from "Ni, my lovest one" (6 minutes from 15)
recorded live in concert and released on the 2009 album 'LOVEST'

2.taken from "Toecap Little John "(8 minutes from 49)
as yet unreleased

3. taken from"Bright Clear Blue (everything goes to dust)" (6 minutes from 31)
recorded 'live' in the studio and released on the 2009 album 'LOVEST'

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