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SIMON
WADE > guitar / piano B I O G R A P H Y Vivid soundscapes infused with texture and meaning, Mushroom Giant is an Australian band specialising in dramatic instrumental music. Mushroom Giant’s live performances offer an aural and visual experience that transcends the conventional 4-piece rock band, exploring an instrumental realm full of colour and imagery and have taken the show to audiences in Sydney, Adelaide and rural Victoria and are currently organising a European tour for 2009. The band has experienced a meandering evolution from a contemporary 3-piece orchestra (C3PO) thrashing out loud and distorted riffs into something more psychedelic with the David Lynch inspired Rails album. The 4-piece was settled serendipitously in 2003 via an unlikely camping experience in The Grampians National Park, in western Victoria. Since then David Charlton (guitar), Craig Fryers (bass/bowed bass), Trent Horwood (drums) and Simon Wade (guitar/piano) have brought to life a thriving family of thoughtfully crafted songs – a compelling mesh of dynamic musicianship and imaginative themes. By 2006 Mushroom Giant was performing regularly with leading Melbourne bands and in September of that year released the Graven Image EP and recorded most of the Kuru album before ending the year with a captivating performance at Phillip Island’s Pyramid Rock Festival on NYE, with the likes of Silverchair, The Living End, Brant Bjork and Evermore. A 44-minute EP entitled Woman Heroin was then released in May 2007 featuring a selection of songs including two live tracks recorded at The East Brunswick Club and an improvised performance recorded during one inspired rehearsal session. Kuru was released in February 2008 offering an engrossing listening experience; a 60-minute journey through up-tempo grooves and intricately-layered soundscapes to dark, cavernous compositions and bone-shaking riffs. The album was written combining the scientific theory of a cannibalistic human ancestory with a fictional tale of a 4,000 year old vampire-esque bisexual female living in modern day Manhattan (courtesy of acclaimed author Whitley Strieber). The name Kuru derives from a disease one may or may not get from consuming the proteins one’s own species. Kuru promises to be worth a listen – headphones, beanbag, lavalamp, etc. not included.
"The
guitarists complement each other with wonderfully expressive, layered
guitar playing while the rhythm section gives each song amazing
depth and density. Songs like Pigeons and Autumn Leaves The Dead
are beautiful, haunting compositions" "Cannibals,
vampires and lesbians. Imagination is an honoured guest at Mushroom
Giant's dinner table and an open mind is a must..."
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