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Artist
Dean Roberts
12+ albums
post-rockkrankyexperimentalambientNew Zealand
about
Dean Roberts (born 1975; died August 2024) was a New Zealand musician remembered for being a member of the trio Thela (with Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman) during the mid 1990s. After Thela disbanded, Roberts recorded three solo albums under the name White Winged Moth, followed by a series of releases under his own name. Slow, often wrenching songs where the brush of a cymbal, a voice or a plucked string can have great impact. Through arrangement, processing and editing Dean Roberts has crafted out rock that presents listeners with familiar forms as it challenges them with oblique gestures. Improvisational and electronic strategies are ably utilized to push the dimensions of rock songs played by a group of people together in one room. Along with Martin Brandlmayr and Werner Dafeldecker, Roberts was a member of experimental trio Autistic Daughters when he lived in Italy. He also recorded with Eugene Chadbourne and Thurston Moore. He graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts' Intermedia department and later taught time-based arts there. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Letter to Monday
1,2172Smash The Palace And What Nerves You've Got
1,1383The Fake and Detached
9904Sugar Got a Cocaine Heart
9175Welcome Home, Little Birds
8986The Dole Of Liars
8277The Grandest Of Streets
7948All Pidgins Sent to War, Palace of Adrenaline V. & E.E.
7619You and the Devil Blues
73410Cindy Tells Me...
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