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White Swan Black Swan
12+ albums
New ZealandAlt-countrycountrysxsw 2009
about
White Swan Black Swan was a New Zealand band formed in Auckland by Sonya Waters and Ben Howe (who have been in bands such as The Instigators, Orange, Superette - and were together in Fang) backed by bassist Ben Furniss (from Surrealistic) and drummer Rick McShane (from The Chainsaw Masocist). The band's 2005 eponymous debut was a 'mini-double' with White Swan being the songs of Sonya Waters and Black Swan the songs of Ben Howe; different songs and a different sound - but the people making them were the same. Visit http://www.whiteswanblackswan.com or http://www.myspace.com/whiteswanblackswan or http://www.facebook.com/pages/White-Swan-Black-Swan/10217998206 to find out more White Swan Black Swan make their music in a brick house on the edge of a sleeping volcano. Their house is furnished with out-of-date Super 8 movie projectors, old amplifiers, 70's lamps, faded paintings of imagined places, all keepsakes from a past era embellishing the musical landscape. The wooden floors echo with the sounds of warm vintage equipment and analogue technology. Their brick bungalow is a rural green oasis - hidden away for the city that surrounds it. Combined, White Swan Black Swan veered left of their indie- rock roots to explore different territories. The music is littered with acoustic pianos, cool Fender Rhodes tones, outmoded synthesizers drones , chiming hollow body guitars and spaced out old sound effects. McShane's drums give the music a swing into 60's cool jazz or a lurch in
