Wolfa
Wolfa is electric bassist, Mick Meagher, & vocalist, Jenny Barnes. Subverting the gendered voice & exploiting the performativity of body, voice & sound, Wolfa plays hard to reveal softness & responsiveness along a frightened, feared & enraged path.
Wolfa explores the inherent darkness & heaviness central to Meagher’s sonic investigation of low frequency resonance, dissonance in low registers, & a minimalistic approach to improvisation. Coupled with Barnes’ rigorous investigation into sound as meaning, & the absence of sound in meaning, Wolfa marries the low frequency sound performance of the electric bass with a compelling spontaneity, expression & empathetic experience of language & language acquisition.
WOLFA - JENNY BARNES (VOCALS), MICK MEAGHER (BASS)Sad Mannequin.
Sad Mannequin takes a trip through violence, grief, rage, & injustice into calm, joy & pleasure. Listeners are left with feelings of being bruised & knocked, but ultimately of being washed & cleansed.
LATEST RELEASE.
Make it up Club.
Filmed in February 2021 - with @photoyunist
Cluster.
Cluster is the debut release for Mick Meagher & Jenny Barnes as a duo. It comprises four improvisations recorded at Pughouse Studio in June of 2016.
REVIEWS.
“Cluster is an outing of two of the most creative individual musicians on the scene today. Musically telepathic, Jenny & Mick flow with ease through these compositions, creating a journey of surprises & joy to the ears & mind. Music that truly can’t be categorised, beyond being most excellent & beautiful.”
— Scott Tinkler
“A wonderful subversion of expectation by Barnes & Meagher on this album; Barnes employing all the devices of speech but excluding language to a directly musical interaction with Meagher on bass. I haven’t heard anything like it before. Utterly approachable & absorbing improvisation.”
— Sam Price, Cyclic Defrost