BILL DIREEN & THE HAT - "The Flavour of the Meat" LP superb avant-jazz

superb avant-jazz

disenfranchisement

it sounds like it could have been constructed from obscure Italian library breaks

yet never has gotten the level of notoriety that many of his fellow countryman have

BILL DIREEN & THE HAT - "The Flavour of the Meat" LP superb avant-jazzBill Direen & The HAT The Flavour of the Meat LP (Grapefruit, 2013) "Bill Direen and Hamish Kilgour go back to the early days of NZs Flying Nun label and even earlier, when the members of bands like The Clean and Vacuum would skulk to each others shows in small bars or run down church halls in the suburbs of Christchurch. In 1983, Direen and Kilgour were working within a cats call of each other, Hamish at Flying Nun Records and Bill at his Blue Ladder