Biography
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Years Active
2002 – present (21 years)
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Members
- Graham Jones
- Patrick Farmer
An exploratory improvising group from middle England, The Exploits of Elaine's music hits like a relic from a forgotten future: the tribal utopia of a post-capitalist Britain. Deconstructing a variety of musical forms (krautrock, gamelan, folk traditions, post-punk, no wave), these young men reshape them into ghostly shapes and ecstatic trance-outs with all the glee of school children let loose in the instrument cupboard. Their music is without leadership or prefiguration and revels in the joys of the immanent, the unexpected, the mistaken. They utilise whatever they can lay their hands on: detuned guitars, bike wheels, circuit bent keyboards and homemade percussion all feature prominently, whilst contact mics are used to 'play' surfaces wherever they play.
Two albums are in the pipeline: 'Plateau Suite' will be released as a CD-R by Gravid Hands and free FLAC/MP3 by Records on Ribs and 'Crawling out of Context' as CD by Gravid Hands.
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