- Peril (band)
Infobox musical artist
Name = Peril
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Background = group_or_band
Origin =Melbourne, Victoria ,Australia
Genre =Industrial music
Years_active = 1992-1995
Label = Dr Jim's Records
Sound Factory
Red Note
Associated_acts = Great White Noise
Kletka Red
Komfort 2000The Necks Max Q
Trans World Noise
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Current_members =Tony Buck Michael Sheridan Otomo Yoshihide Thierry Fossemalle
Past_members =Kato Hideki Peril were a Japanese/Australian industrial band operating throughout the early 1990s.
Peril was founded by drummer
Tony Buck and were active from 1992 to 1996. The music is mostly improvised with Buck’s drum-triggered samples providing a complex rhythmic base, over this is the turntablism/guitar ofOtomo Yoshihide and other rock improvised elements fromMichael Sheridan (guitar),Kato Hideki (bass) from Japan. Hideki was later replaced byThierry Fossemalle for the band's second album. The group recorded and performed internationally throughout Europe and Asia.Their debut, self-titled album was released on the Dr Jim's label from Melbourne in 1993.
"The music was the most extreme collage of styles and textures that I’ve ever been gloriously emersed in. The depth to which sounds were crossed made Zorn’s Naked City sound like a mere pit band."- Sheridan [cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s877072.htm |title=australia adlib - auto nobody |publisher=ABC |accessdate=2008-10-08]
A second album, "Multiverse" was was recorded in Holland between July and October 1993, and released in 1995 on the Sound Factory label from
Hong Kong .Discography
* "Peril" - Dr Jim's Records (1993)
* "Multiverse" - Sound Factory (1995)
* "Astro" - Red Note (1996)References
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