Difficult Listening goes to air at 9.00 pm WST every Sunday evening on RTR FM 92.1 in Perth, Western Australia. It is also streamed over the RTR FM web site. Links to restreams and play lists are available at the Difficult Listening web site.

The program covers a variety of genres that all push the boundaries of musicality, in areas as diverse as contemporary chamber music, noise, dark ambient, impro, free jazz, musique concrete, spoken word and electronica.

The program has been running since 1989. Its founder and coordinator is Bryce Moore, who has been with the show since its inception, ably assisted by a series of co-presenters, most recently Rosalind Appleby.

09 July 2008

Bassta! Pex

Noise terrorist Bassta! Pex aka Predrag Delibasich, late of the bass guitar quartet Abe Sade, will be a special guest on this week's Difficult Listening, talking about his new vinyl release, and playing live in the studio. I'm really looking forward to this one - should be one noisy night. Here's his press release about his new release:

GUTTER GUITAR/BASSTA! PEX split vinyl LP

Heartless Robot Production 001

The newly created Perth record label Heartles Robot Production is proud to present its first release – a split vinyl LP with Gutter Guitar and Bassta! Pex. Behind these two intriguing monickers is one person – Predrag Delibasich, known to most people on Perth music scene as Pex.

Pex has been playing in bands since 2001, first with Sokkol, then Soviet Valves, both of whom were deep in punk waters. In 2006 he joined local indie rockers Airport City Shuffle for just a few months. At the same time he started another two bands: Bamodi and Abe Sada (with whom he toured Japan in 2007).

In late 2005 he started doing solo bass shows as Bassta! Pex. He performed very diverse sets conisting of anything from punk to folk to noise tunes, at places equally diverse from Amplifier Bar to Regal Theatre.

In September 2007 while mucking at home with his guitar and small practice amp, Pex discovered if he pushes that small red button on the amplifier it produces the most beautiful feedback noise. He recorded such noise and Gutter Guitar was born! The song was titled “Butterfly Maiden” and Pex put it on his myspace page right away.

A couple of months later he received an offer from a new local label Heartless Robot Production for releasing his solo works on vinyl LP. After meeting with the label guys it was decided to press 100 vinyl LPs and to ask 100 local, interstate and overseas people to design one individual cover each.

The vinyl is logically split on two sides – one with guitar, the other with bass. For this album Pex has used his instruments, looping pedals, overdrive and wah-wah. The music is sometimes abstract, sometimes ambiental, and sometimes even melodic. All compositions are by Pex, except two which use motifs from a couple of songs by leading Serbian soundtrack composer Zoran Simjanovic, as well as traditional Serbian 'fatal' folk song “Imam jednu zelju” (“I've got a Wish”).

The LP is being launched on Thursday 17th July at the Bakery, along with Gutter Guitar/Stina/Chris Cobilis 3-way split CD, also on Heartless Robot Production. All 100 covers will be exhibited prior to the launch at the Blackbox Gallery from 7pm.

Pex (as Gutter Guitar) will embark on tour of Japan and Europe from August until November this year.

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