Pimmon
{{Short description|Australian electronic and ambient musician, record producer and arranger}}
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Pimmon is the recording name of Australian electronic and ambient musician, record producer and arranger, Paul David Gough. He has released records on labels such as Fat Cat Records, Fällt, Tigerbeat6, Staalplaat and Staubgold, and collaborated with Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi, among others.
Gough started making music in the early 80s, inspired by Severed Heads,[http://www.angbase.com/interviews/pimmon.html Angbase interview, 2000] but never released any of it commercially. That changed when he sent a CD-R to the Japanese label Meme, who released it in 1999. Since then, Gough has been creating drone- and glitch-based abstract digital soundscapes, by manipulating a variety of sound sources on his computer. Gough's first documented output arrived in the very early stages of laptop Electroacoustic improvisation and he has thus been credited as "second only to Fennesz as a laptop artist."{{Cite web|url=http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1198|title=Dusted Reviews: Pimmon - Snaps*Crackles*Pops}} He has played live at various festivals around the world, and has toured several countries.
Gough lives in Adelaide, where he works as a radio producer at ABC Adelaide. He is also the host of a podcast called 1234 and The Quiet Space[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/ Quiet Space radio show] and another program on FBi 94.5 called Paul's Play-Lunch. Gough also performs with guitarist Jeff Burch under the name Mandala Trap.
Selected discography
- (1999) Pola-Pola (self-released)
- (1999) Waves and Particles (Meme)
- (1999) Copper Hats (Freedom From)
- (2000) Kinetica ((K-RAA-K)³)
- (2000) Assembler (Fällt)
- (2000) Afternoon Tea with Oren Ambarchi, Fennesz, Peter Rehberg, Keith Rowe (Ritornell)
- (2001) Electronic Tax Return (live EP, Tigerbeat6){{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080808090000/http://www.amo.org.au/release.asp?id=5518 | url = http://www.amo.org.au/release.asp?id=5518 | publisher = Australian Music Online | title = Releases :: Electronic Tax Return | archivedate = 8 August 2008 | accessdate = 25 July 2016 | quote = Pimmon's first record for Tigerbeat6 and is limited to 500 copies worldwide. It was recorded live at one of Australia's largest festivals, The Big Day Out.}}
- (2001) Orquesta Del Arrurruz (Staalplaat)
- (2001) Secret Sleeping Birds (Sirr Records)
- (2002) Grain (by Samartzis; Pimmon; Verhagen; Brown) (Dorobo){{Citation | author1 = Samartzis, Philip | author2 = Brown, David | author3 = Verhagen, Darrin | author4 = Pimmon | title = Grain | publication-date=2002 | publisher = Dorobo | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28933568 | accessdate=25 July 2016 }} Pimmon provides track 2: "Slegner Forgets".
- (2003) Mort Aux Vaches (Staalplaat)
- (August 2003) Snaps * Crackles * Pops (Tigerbeat6){{cite web | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080816230646/http://www.amo.org.au/release.asp?id=5531 | url = http://www.amo.org.au/release.asp?id=5531 | publisher = Australian Music Online | title = Releases :: Snaps, Crackles, Pops | archivedate = 16 August 2008 | accessdate = 25 July 2016 }}
- (2005) Curse of Evil Clown (Meupe) (Meupe6){{Citation | author1=Pimmon | title=Curse of evil clown | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Meupe | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/159516600 | accessdate=25 July 2016 }}
- (2008) Curse You, Evil Clown (Meupe) (Meupe10){{Citation | author1=Pimmon (Musician) | title=Curse you, evil clown | publication-date=2008 | publisher=meuple | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153052361 | accessdate=25 July 2016 | quote= Summary: "Gathering three pieces originally found on the highly collectible limited edition 3" CDr titled Curse of Evil Clown (Meupe, 2005), this release is more than a remastered reissue: fleshing out and filling a large gap in Pimmon release history with three long, previously unreleased pieces from Gough's seemingly endless archive of deep, dark electronic drone and minimal micro-tones. A must for fans of Tim Hecker and Machinefabriek."--Publisher's website.}}
- (2009) Smudge Another Yesterday (Preservation) (PRE021){{Citation | author1 = Pimmon | author2 = Gough, Paul | title = Smudge Another Yesterday | publication-date = 2009 | publisher = Preservation | url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36381259 | accessdate = 25 July 2016 }}
- (2009) Sounds of Perth (Cromim)
- (2009) Steered In Smash Ascent (Stunned Records)
- (2011) Lay Down Real Slow (Stunned Records)
- (2011) The Oansome Orbit (Room40)
References
External links
- [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p508112|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic]
- [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Pimmon Pimmon at Discogs]
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