DESCRIPTION:
Off of the Earlyman Recordings 7''

http://www.last.fm/music/Nigel+Bunn
Nigel has rooms full of old machines. Many of them found their way onto the album "Index," released in 1999 on Emperor Jones. He's also a visual artist (mostly pencil and watercolor), a cinematographer and a photographer, who develops his own films and photos in his flat in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Anyone that's heard his music no doubt first became familiar with him via the seminal New Zealand compilation Killing Capitalism with Kindness (1992). His contribution "Goodbye God Baby Goodbye" (included in this collection) set the world on end for just over two minutes. It's a disorienting and exhilarating listen, with primitive computer gurgles and plinked guitar set alongside Nigel's disturbingly droll vocals. Besides a couple more compilation appearances and a rare lathe cut 7" EP, nothing else was released by Mr. Bunn until "Index."

Alastair Galbraith coaxed/tricked Nigel into assembling a double album of his work, and the result is this impressive body of work; it's largely instrumental and a good bit of it is loop-based, with pulsating guitar songs. Ultimately, all of his music is simply beautiful and his vision alone.