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Coelacanth
Chris and I are working on a music CD. It's going to b 12 tracks of rather retro-music. I like to think of it as post-rock; but it's also a little post-fusion; post-NY punk circa 1978; but mostly post-everything meaningful on guitar. Maybe it should just be considered post-Guitar music. We're having fun, assembling it bit by bit across Sydney and Canberra. It's taken a year to get the 12 tracks down and we're in the process of mixing. This procedure may continue on for some weeks or months. We call it the 'Coleacanth project'.

The coelacanth of course is considered a living fossil, a direct surviving species of a Devonian bony fish, which lurks more than swims. They grow to be rather big, probably because no predator is game enough to partake of its un-tasty flesh. The first time I heard about the coelacanth, I was about seven, living in Perth; just the thought of an ancient species blew my fragile little mind (count the zeroes!). It also came with the anecdote where the locals claimed that the fish was too ugly and decidedly not tasty at all. No sashimi of that one is ever going to make an appearance in a Tsukiji sushi shop.

And yet the damned fish has an un certain charm, that has lodged itself into my consciousness. So, the immensely ancient, ugly, jagged, un-delicious and rather cumbersome should-be-extinct-but-isn't-Coelacanth, appropriately describes the guitar music we are recording, hence the moniker 'Coelacanth project'. :)
I hope you will all give it a taste when it finally gets served.

- Art Neuro