2007
Richard Francis | Together alone, together apart
CD | CMR
Plains | Underground
mini CDr | CLaudia
2006
With Throats As Fine As Needles
CD | Digitalis Industries / Students of Decay
Lawrence English / Richard Francis | LERFAUSNZNWSD1/22006
7 inch | no label
Francis / Guerra / Mattin / Stern
7inch | CMR
2005
Toitu Seance
CDr | The Seedy R
Mattin / Richard Francis | Live in Auckland 03-04
MP3 | Two Thousand And
Plains | Into Tone
CD | Scarcelight
Francis / Neville / Stelzer / Watkins
Lathe 8inch | CMR
Richard Francis | Watersheets
Edition of 50 tour CDr | CMR
Richard Francis | Night Fields
V/A Witching Hour
CDr | CLaudia
2004
Birchville Cat Motel / Antony Milton / Richard Francis
Hiss Methodologies
dble CDr | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Richard Francis | Windtone
V/A Music for Stairwell
CD | Artspace
Richard Francis | TV Remote
V/A Spoken and Field
CDr | CLaudia
2003
Tetuzi Akiyama / Richard Francis
7 inch | CMR
Akiyama / Francis / Kneale / Neville / Watkins
CDr | Absurd
Richard Francis | Slow Interior Circles
V/A Audible New Frontiers
CD | Radio NZ / Physics Room
2002
Richard Francis | Three Tracks
mini CD | Stateart / CMR
Eso Steel / Birchville Cat Motel | Serene Trajectories
CDr | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Richard Francis | 508
V/A
A Low Tide Rising
CDr | Pseudo Arcana
2001
Eso Seel | Two Ways
7 inch | Drone Records
Eso Seel | Technology of Sleep
LP | 20city
Eso Seel / Minoru Yonemoto
split 8 inch | 20city
Eso Seel / Birchville Cat Motel / MSBR | Droop Drone Drops
CDr | Denshi Zatsuon
2000
Eso Seel | Two World Walker
C30 | White Tapes
Eso Seel | Snake Processions
CDr | 20city
Eso Seel | The Human Weapon
CDr | American Tapes
Eso Seel | Venusian Attitudes
7 inch | 20city
Eso Seel / Birchville Cat Motel / Doe | Galleries 4-6
CD / triple 10 inch | 20city
Eso Seel | Five
V/A
Denshi Zatsuon CD | Denshi Zatsuon
1999
Eso Seel | The Agents
CDr | 20city
Eso Seel | INA
CDr | Last Visible Dog
Eso Seel | Galleries 1-3
CD | 20city
Small Blue Torch
double CDr | Last Visible Dog
1998
Eso Seel | Galleries 2-3
double 10 inch | 20city
Eso Seel / Birchville Cat Motel
split C60 | Freedom From
Eso Seel | untitled
V/A
Year of the Root CDr | Root Don Lonie For Cash
The Boa Guild
lathe 7 inch |
20city
1997
Eso Seel | Nezmet
7 inch | 20city
Eso Seel | First Intermediate Period
C60 | 20city
Eso Seel | Gallery 1
10 inch | 20city
Eso Seel / Birchville Cat Motel | Sect/Doverider
split 7 inch | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Small Blue Torch | September
V/A We’ll Sail Out Far triple LP | Apartment Records
Small Blue Torch / Hataitai Bowling Club
split C60 | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Small Blue Torch / Birchville Cat Motel
split C60 | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
1996
Eso Seel / Three
split 7 inch |
20city
Eso Seel | Sandpaper
C60 | 20city
Small Blue Torch
C60 | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Small Blue Torch | Full Fathom Five
C60 | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
Small Blue Torch | Stockpile
C60 | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon
CLaudi_013
Plains | Underground
Mini compact disk
17:41 minutes
Tim Coster - Field recordings, Computer
Richard Francis - Computer
Rosy Parlane - Computer
Mark Sadgrove - Feedback, Linux Csound
Clinton Watkins - Samples
Paul Winstanley - Feedback
Recorded opening a show for Birchville Cat Motel and Sam Hamilton. This was Plains last performance before Mark moved to Tokyo, and it turns out quite a bit more energetic than the first album "Into Tone" on Scarcelight. Here the improvised soundscapes are a bit more fragmented, with melodic rumbles through the background, and a surface bubbling of psychedelic noise.
'Auckland, New Zealand supergroup featuring, for this live performance from June 2006, Tim Coster, Richard Francis, Rosy Parlane, Mark Sadgrove, Clinton Watkins and Paul Winstanley. All members work with computer or feedback/electronics, and the resulting 17 minute improvisation doesn't stray too far from the usual model for digital group interactions. However, while the lexicon is unsurprising, with low-slung purr, scratchy field recordings and peals of high-end, Underground is one of the few computer group improvs you'll want to return to.'
THE WIRE 279, May 2007
'The big band is popular: Mimeo or Freq_out are well-known and much bigger than New Zealand's Plains, which is band with Tim Coster (field recordings, computer), Richard Francis (computer), Rosy Parlane
(computer), Mark Sadgrove (feedback, linux csound), Clinton Watkins (samples) and Paul Winstanley (feedback). As far as I know, they come together to play live music, and 'Underground' is such a concert, from june last year. It's a highly atmospheric piece of music. One could all too easily think things would be rather noise related, but these gentleman know how to be in control of their sounds. Things hiss and crack, and float by, even when two are created with feedback it's still an achievement to be so quiet and controlled. Somehow I don't think they will be on tour pretty soon, which is a pity, since I wouldn't mind seeing this live once.'
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