Rosy Parlane, also known as Paul Douglas, is an

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

ian from

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

who currently lives in

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, New Zealand. He was in the New Zealand trio

Thela Thela was a short-lived rock band from New Zealand. It was formed in 1992 and consisted of Dion Workman, Rosy Parlane, and Dean Roberts. They released two LPs on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label. Following the band's demise in 1996, all ...

, then went on a solo career, as well as co-founding the

Sigma Editions Sigma Editions is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman (both ex-members of Thela). It specializes in electronic music and experimental music. Overview The label began in Melbourne, Australia, relocated to R ...

record label. He also played in the bands Empirical, Parmentier, Pit Viper, Plains, Rosenberg, Sakada, Codhaven and Amazing Broccoli. His solo music has been called "abstract, electronic-based music", "soundscapes of beauty and destruction" and "avant-techno".

Career

Parlane co-founded the avant-garde rock trio

in Auckland, New Zealand in 1992. They released two LPs over the years. Thela disbanded four years later, after which Parlane burnt his guitar, moved to

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

, Australia, and began working on solo material. At that time, he also was part of the duo Parmentier with fellow Thela ex-member

Dion Workman Dion Workman is a musician from New Zealand. Throughout the mid-1990s he was a member of the trio Thela with Rosy Parlane and Dean Roberts. After Thela dissolved in the late 1990s, Workman and Parlane moved to Melbourne, Australia, and record ...

. In 1998, Parlane and Workman founded the

record label, which released music by themselves, David Haines, and

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. The name is a reference to

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's plan for a

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colony. Parlane moved to

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in 2000 and formed the ensemble Sakada with

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and

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. In 2004 he released ''Iris'', which was described as "extraordinary passages of filigreed and tessellated electronic minutiae and static flutter that evoke the crystalline hissing of ice in white heat". In 2006 he released ''Jessamine'', which featured

Tetuzi Akiyama Tetuzi Akiyama (Akiyama Tetsuji) (born 13 April 1964) is a Japanese guitarist, violinist, and instrument-maker. Akiyama formed the improvisation group Madhar in 1987, and the classical ensemble Hikyo String Quintet in 1994 (which also included T ...

using a samurai sword to play a resonator guitar. It finished with a piece featuring eight different guitarists, including Michael Morley, Stefan Neville,

Lasse Marhaug Lasse Marhaug (born 10 September 1974) is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation, jazz, rock and extreme metal. Marhaug has also been involved in creating ...

, Campbell Kneale, Donald McPherson and David Mitchell. In 2008 he collaborated with

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on a track on ''Black Sea''. In 2009 he exhibited a piece of audio art in the Sonic Museum exhibition at the

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and performed a live score for a film at the New Zealand International Film Festivals.

Discography

Solo albums

* ''#1-4'' (1998,

) * ''Getxo'' (2002,

) * ''Iris'' (2004,

Touch Records Touch (sometimes mistakenly written 'Touch Records' and sometimes written Touch Music, which is technically the publishing side of the company) is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. Touch was founded in 1982 by Jon ...

) * ''Jessamine'' (2006,

)

Collaborations

Parlane has released collaborations with artists such as

Birchville Cat Motel Birchville Cat Motel is a one-man experimental music project formed by Campbell Kneale from Wellington, New Zealand. Although largely unrecognised by the mainstream press and public in his home country, Kneale has toured throughout Japan, Am ...

Pierre Bastien Pierre Bastien (born 1953 in Paris) is a French musician, composer, and experimental musical instrument builder. Life and career Bastien began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals ...

and

Lukas Simonis Lukas Simonis is a Dutch guitarist, mainly active in experimental music and sound art. Besides his career as a musician he's also involved with the Rotterdam-based avant garde venue WORM. and runs the music lab of the venue. Simonis published a b ...

References

External links

* includin
discography

Discography of Rosy Parlane
at

Discogs Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the la ...

* Discography of Rosy Parlaneat AMG
Rosy Parlane at the Tate Modern
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parlane, Rosy New Zealand electronic musicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people)