KnifeLadder

KnifeLadder

Knifeladder was formed by John Murphy and Andrew Trail in 1998 as a result of a chance meeting in Temple Underground Station. Knifeladder uses hand played electronics, tribal military drums, ethnic instrumentation, found sound and heavily sonic bass to create a form of Organic Industrial Music. Using rhythmic ritual repetitions, jarring angular sounds and frantic primal energies, Knifeladder has found a home outside of standard genre definitions of noise/folk/experimental to be everything and nothing to do with conventional approaches to avant rock music

Personnel

The personnel include Jonh Murphy, percussionist and electronic pioneer with such acts as SPK, early Current 93 and credible pop act The Associates. Hunter Barr was a founder member of the infamous Infant Skull Surgery and is a renowned recording engineer for his unconventional yet obsessively perfectionist approach. Andrew Trail was founder of Autogeddon and performed in the controversial Ministry of Love, who broke up after

being banned from performing in every live venue in Sydney. Up until recently he also played live keyboards with Inertia. Knifeladder themselves have performed with such acts as Allerseen, Sieben, Naevus, Coil, Bad Sector, Music Wreckers Sol Invictus and Neither/neither world. With over 120 live actions, they have mastered the live environment like few others.

Recently, due to work commitments,  Hunter Barr has had to take leave of Knifeladder. Taking his place is Andie Brown, ex Cindytalk bassist and creator of These Feathers Have Plumes.

The Releases

Knifeladder’s new album Music/Concrete is now released by Cold meat Industry.

THE SPECTACLEwas the previous KnifeLadder album. It was released on Cryonica music 27th February 2006. You can find outrageous numbers of rave reviews on www.cryonica.com

CRYONICATANZ V4 The Spectacle (AntiValium remix)

CRYOTANZ V3 Dervish ( AntiValium remix)

ORGANIC TRACES CD
KnifeLadder
KnifeLadder’s Debut Album courtesy of Operative Records

SPLIT CD
KnifeLadder/Shining Vril
Combining tracks from the two acts. An audio feast featuring John Murphy’s two projects

SCHLECHT UND IRONISCH CD
Laibach Tribute
Compilation featuring KnifeLadder’s rendition of “Dogs Of War”

DOCUMENT THREE CD
KnifeLadder/Naevus
Split CD from KnifeLadder and Naevus courtesy of Terra-Fria

AUDACIA IMPERAT
VVAA
Compilation CD feat. KnifeLadder courtesy of Old Europa Cafe

Live

The Show Knifeladder are pleased to continue to deliver a sound from powerful electro acoustic ambience, to primal driven industrial energy via nods to the more extreme edge of prog and space rock

CONTACT andrew66693@aol.com