
Summer/Winter - North/South - 2007/2008:
As the
seasons ensue, the threads of Cloudboy continue to diverge and interweave
as the various members are following their erstwhile individual paths, which
is to say that everybody is spread over the globe happily doing their own
and collaborative things, musical and non-musical. No specifically Cloudboy-related
plans have been made for 2007 or 2008 as yet, but don't be surprised to receive
a wayward message in your cyber-mailbox just when you've given up all hope.
Till then!
Ongoing items of interest:
For those
who are (still!) waiting for a repress of the 1995 "cloudboy" E.P.
- please be patient. It'll have to keep just a little longer.
In the meantime, check out Demarnia Lloyd's "Set Upon a Curve",
her second solo CD (out on Global
Routes); recorded while she was artist-in-residence at Smith's
Grainstore in Oamaru, this is a real gem. After a few years of absence from
recording, there are currently some garden-shed-type collaborations happening
with Demarnia's brother Jody, so check the She'll
Be Right website for any details should they eventuate!
John White's second solo outing "Mogwash", recorded in Berlin 2003
and released in Wellington 2005, is another beautiful gem; contact John
for details. (His first solo album "Balloon Adventure" has been
re-released on She'll Be Right.) While on the subject of John -
Mestar's
new album "Shut the Squizwot Factories Down" was released in late
2006 and is pretty cool alright. It's out on Arch
Hill.
Johannes in the meantime has long finished his second "Sleepytime"
album - "Schlafwandler", available from Monkey
Records - and is now working on several new, highly secret
projects involving instruments and computers. One of these is an album with
Jay Clarkson that should be released in mid-2007, and his third (final?) Sleepytime
instalment "The Twilight Drone" should be out this year too. That
is if the Bad
Statistics don't take over the world first.
j