The Necks
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The Necks are an Australian avant-garde jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. They play improvisational pieces of up to an hour in length that explore the development and demise of repeating musical figures. Their double LP studio album Unfold was named by Rolling Stone as "one of the top 20 avant albums of 2017."
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Discography
Studio albums
- Sex (Spiral Scratch, 1989)
- Next (Spiral Scratch, 1990)
- Aquatic (Fish of Milk/Shock, 1994)
- Silent Night (Fish of Milk/Shock, 1996)
- Hanging Gardens (Fish of Milk/Shock.ReR Megacorp,1999)
- Aether (Fish of Milk/Shock/ReR Megacorp, 2001)
- Drive By (Fish of Milk/Shock/ReR Megacorp, 2003)
- Mosquito/See Through (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2004)
- Chemist (Fish of Milk/Shock?ReR Megacorp, 2006)
- Silverwater (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2009)
- Mindset (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2011)
- Open (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2013)
- Vertigo (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2015)
- Unfold (Ideologic Organ, 2017)
- Body (Fish of Milk/Northern Spy, 2018)
- Three (Fish of Milk/Northern Spy/ReR Megacorp, 2020)
Live albums
- Piano Bass Drums (Fish of Milk/Shock, 1998)
- Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab (Fish of Milk/Shock, 2002)
- Photosynthetic (Long Arms, 2003)
- Townsville (Fish of Milk/ReR Megacorp, 2007) live album, recorded on 15 February 2007 live in concert at the Riverway Arts Centre in Thuringowa City, Northern Queensland.
- Live in Berlin (memory stick video, 2019)
Soundtrack albums
- The Boys (original soundtrack) (Wild Sound/MDS, 1998)
- Strade Trasparenti (Staubgold/2011)
Other appearances
- "Royal Family" on Beyond El Rocco (Vox, 1993) – soundtrack to Kevin Lucas' documentary on Australian Jazz
- "Chemist" (live performance) on Highlights From The ABC TV Series Studio 22 (ABC Music, 2002)
- "Hall" on split-single 7" with Hards-Ons (We Empty Rooms, WER#25, 2014)
- Drift project by Underworld (2018 - 2019) - appear on "A Very Silent Way", "Appleshine Continuum" and "Altitude Dub Continuum"
- Leaving Meaning by Swans (Young God & Mute, 2019) - appear on the songs "Leaving Meaning" and "The Nub"
Linking in in 2023
Australian jazz, Benders, Body (The Necks album), Brian Eno, Bronze Rat Records, Chemist (album), Chris Abrahams, Damien Lovelock, Dominic Lash, Drift (Underworld project), Drive By (album), Dynamic Hepnotics, Gareth Liddiard, Golden Plains Festival, Hanging Gardens (The Necks album), Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, Helpmann Award for Best Original Score, Jon Hopkins, Kavus Torabi, Le Guess Who?, Leaving Meaning, List of ambient music artists, Lloyd Swanton, Lotto (band), Melanie Oxley, Mindset (album), Mosquito/See Through, Neil Murray (Australian musician), Next (The Necks album), Northern Spy Records, Open (The Necks album), Paradoxical Frog (album), Peril (band), Photosynthetic (album), Piano Bass Drums, Private Music, Recommended Records, Riverway, Townsville, Rooms of the Magnificent, Sex (The Necks album), Silent Night (album), Silverwater (album), Sleeps Like a Curse, Sounds of Australia, Stephen Cummings, The Boys (1998 film), The Boys (The Necks album), The Catholics, The Neck, The Tender Hook, The Triffids, Three (The Necks album), Tony Buck (musician), Townsville (album), Underworld (band), Unfold (The Necks album), Vertigo (The Necks album), Vivid Live, Wizards of Oz
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