In the early 2000's, Martin Field was the driving force behind Sydney’s Don’t Send Me Back To Art School. Long before morally dubious young women with fringes and their mums made ukuleles hip, Don’t Send Me Back To Art School were responsible for a series of cassette-only reinterpretations of New Zealand noise music classiscs, such as “Killing Ukuleles With Ukuleles”, “Inner-city Ukulele Perspectives”, and – one of my own desert-island disks – the hilarious and strangely affecting “Ukulele Kills”.
During the recording of “L’Ukulele Non”, Field was diagnosed with a rare blood disease which necessitated complete inactivity. He documented the move back to his home town of Hawera and the physical and emotional tribulations of recovery in his zine, “A Period Of Ill Health”.
Over the last couple of years Field has re-emerged as a recording artist under the moniker Overhead Underground, eschewing his former pranksterism for a more serious, studied approach. I’m honoured to be able to release this, his most recent recording. Like all good experimental music, it sounds just as good playing quietly in the corner as it does if you play it ridiculously loudly. Huge blocks of sculpted noise alternate with tangled webs of speech, alluding to Don’t Send Me Back To Art School’s first cassette, “I Am Sitting In The Gloom”. It may sound simple, but in fact Field is able to wring surprising sonic complexity from these basic materials.
Available for free from the DivShare link below. Size: 14.6 Mb.
http://www.divshare.com/download/16705382-c3f
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