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Welcome
to the asylum
of
rarg.
rarg
is
an avant-garde composer based in the UK, making music out of himself,
his surrounding objects and assorted musical devices.
Influenced
by the likes of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Aphex Twin, Dr. Octagon, Tom Waits,
Leafcutter John and Scott Walker, rarg
is possibly the oddest noise you will ever hear.
Dark,
brooding and enigmatic, rarg and
his music goes beyond the underground, and into the realms
of sound populated by very few daring artists.
According
to some people, he is a sonic alchemist
and
possibly
very,
very wrong.
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There
is one album available,
and another two are nearing completion. rarg
composes on a daily basis,
so new product is always forthcoming.
The music
is available through this website. Please click on to
this highlighted text,
which should take you where you ought to be going.
This website
is supposed to be updated as often as the music is being produced. Come
back whenever, and please feel free to email if you have any comments
or queries..
(C) All
music and content: DJW GREENSMITH 2004
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October
2005
- I
know, I know, it's been a while since I've updated. So spank me.
- rarg
has not been idle. Oh no. Having said that, although rarg.2
is almost complete, the main focus this year has been on the mighty
SMOKEHAND
- Yes,
the Smokehand album 'The Last Train' is now available here.
Buy it! Buy it now!!
- Smokehand
are gigging in the run-up to Christmas. Have a look at the gigs
page to find out if the wild and exotic sound of Smokehand
is coming to a venue near you.
- You
can also visit Smokehand's Myspace
website. There are some samples, plus it's an easy
way to keep in touch with the Smokehand juggernaut!
- rarg
has completed a session for Darius Akashic, that mad, crazy, wonderful
dude who hosts totallyradio.com's CROOKED
STYLUS. If you've come here as a result of hearing
rarg on the show, then a big fat
hello to you!
- rarg.1
is still available, but not many copies are left. You can still
get it here.
- Hopefully
more news very soon.
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March/April
2005
- Belated Happy New Year
to you!
- rarg
has been played a few times on Crooked Stylus; a radio show dedicated
to the darker side of music that is part of Brighton's www.totallyradio.com.
rarg will be curating a show in
July!
- The show from 4th March
2005 is now in the archives, but you can always join the listener's
club to hear it. DJ Darius played '1.30 (i)' and 'Architeuthis'.
If you caught the show and have come here to check out the site,
welcome!
- rarg.1
continues to sell. Do get hold of a copy while stocks last. Work
on rarg.2 is now stepping up a
gear or two now that 2005 is well underway.
- SJ
Esau's remix album, 'Stop Touching My Cat',
featuring rarg, Twocsinak, Team
Brick, Why?, and some other assorted reprobates from Bristol and
beyond is now available. Go to his website and check it out for
more information. You simply must get a copy as it is a fabulous
document of the avant-pop scene in this fabulous city. Esau's
new album, 'Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse' is also now
available and is frankly excellent, featuring rarg's
other half, Meiliung, as a backing vocalist on one track.
- rarg
will be playing drums for the Esau man at the War Against Sleep
album launch, 30th April, at the Folk House, Park Street in Bristol
- Smokehand
is playing a few gigs for your diary in the coming months.
- 29th April - Toucan
Club, St. Marys Street, Cardiff
- 5th May - Aberystwyth
University
- Do come along and support!
- The Smokehand album
is due to be released in July 2005!!! You will buy a copy.
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December
2004
- rarg.1
is selling pretty well in the run-up to Christmas. It does seem
to make the perfect present for the more discerning of you.
- 'Glass Statue'
has been featured on the 'Madvent Chokalender' website, a selection
of seasonal delights from the Choke Forum c/o White Trash Ambition.
- You can find the Chokalender
here.
Have a flick through all the dates. Like all advent calendars,
it reveals a lovely surprise every day, each featuring a guest
band. Unlike some advent calendars (for example, a cheap Thomas
the Tank Engine one for rarg and
a Barbie one for Meiliung), this one does not contain poor-quality
chocolate and frankly shit pictures of baby Jesus. rarg's
contribution is the choice soundtrack for December 7th.
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November
2004
- rarg.1
is being duplicated by machines this very month, and the album
should be available in time for Christmas. The cover was completed
a few short weeks ago by Meiliung, rarg,
and our friend Lucy, who is very very good at this sort of thing.
- Music, music, music
and occasionally horrid things like a day job and real life are
the order of the day. If it seems like time is dragging on and
there is not enough happening on this website, it's probably due
to:
a) Boredom/ennui/depression/fed
up/listless
b) Too many
other things to do - housework, cooking, doing "stuff",
and the like.
c) Guests
popping round and doing for me what persons from Porlock did
for Coleridge. Thank heaven for Meiliung and her skill with
cocktails.
- During all this time,
the splendid Phil, who writes and directs plays, is talking with
rarg about the possibility of
further collaboration. As the last few projects together have
been extraordinarily fertile for rarg
and potential album ideas/material, this should be one to watch.
Watch this concave space.
- Smokehand are increasing
their gig rate and the album is incoming. Next gig is The Barfly
in Cardiff on 12 November supporting Nick Harper. After that,
it's 20 November at Aberystwyth University. If you can make either
of those gigs, it would be great.
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August 2004
- The constant tide
of work keeps flooding onwards. rarg.1
is now finished and awaiting some sort of cover design. rarg
and Meiliung will probably do that in the next few weeks.
- More music, as ever.
rarg.2 is being mucked about
with so that there is going to be an absolute ORGASM of
sound. Track listing is being quibbled over, so bear with us
until the body is in the bag.
- There
is a purpose to all this bragging, which is to say that we're
beginning the hype for rarg.2.
Of course, you may also wish to know that the hype starts HERE
for the new Smokehand album, which is also having cover
negotiations. An October release is anticipated.
- You
may have noticed some shiny new pics around the site. rarg,
Meiliung and Meiliung's poetic brother Pip went on a photo rampage
just recently and the results are now doing the business on
the website. Enjoy!
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May.2004
- New rarg
website and hurrah for that! Please feel free to have a bit
of a nose around and bookmark for regular updates...
- rarg's
true identity is busy with the finalising of the Smokehand
album, 'The Last Train'. We're just waiting for sleeves and
suchlike to be finished. Gigs and release date will be announced
shortly. Watch this ever-changing space.
- rarg
has been asked to remix a track by Bristol-based singer-songwriter,
and all-round psychedelic funster, SJ
Esau. The original track, 'Dream o' Sweetness'
featured on SJ Esau's marvellous album, 'Queezy Epiphany
Coming Through The Wall', features Meiliung (rarg's
significant other) on vocals. rarg
has re-recorded Meiliung's vocals and done some of his usual
techniques (i.e. mucking about) to create a massive, dark, epic
track which completely turns on its head the original song,
which can best be described as pleasant whimsy.
- The track
may or may not see a release on this site (maybe as part of
a future rarg release? Who knows?),
but will certainly (possibly/probably) be part of SJ Esau's
remix album 'Stop Touching My Cat', to be released along
with his third album. Don't ask me when that'll be, you'd be
better off contacting the SJ Esau man himself.
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