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Justice Yeldham
12+ albums
noiseexperimentalAvant-Gardebritpopharsh noise
about
"the most exciting performer I have seen in the last three years – in fact, since I first saw Iggy Pop" - Bruce Russell - WIRE magazine. What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique audio work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass, from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. His now infamous show has astonished and bemused countless people, instilling them with a mesmerizing fear as he presses his face and lips against the glass' sharp edges whilst deftly employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries. Turning discarded shards of glass into crude musical instruments, the results are a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical. A one of a kind act re-defining the expression "don't try this at home" this show quite simply needs to be witnessed to be fully appreciated, let alone understood. Justice Yeldham is the latest alter-ego of Australian sound performer Lucas Abela, whose past sonic experiments were conducted under monikers like A Kombi, Dj Smallcock, Peeled Hearts Paste and more recently his band Rice Corpse. Initially classed as an experimental turntablist, though his early work rarely resembled anything in the field. Early feats, saw him stab vinyl with Kruger style stylus gloves, bound on electro acoustic trampolines, drag race the popemobile across Sydney Harbour Bridge, perform deaf
