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The Necks are an experimental jazz trio from Sydney, Australia, comprising Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. The band plays improvisational pieces of up to an hour in length that explore repeating musical figures. As well as , they are strongly influenced by .

Typically a live performance will begin very quietly with one of the musicians playing something very simple. One by one, the other two will join with their own melodies, all three independent yet intertwined. A piece of music usually lasts about 45 minutes and over this time grows in volume and pace and complexity before petering out. They are quite simply an extraordinary live experience.

The Necks are also well known in Europe. Their soundtrack for The Boys was nominated for ARIA Best Soundtrack Album, AFI Best Musical Score and Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award. They have also recorded soundtracks for What’s The Deal? (1997) and In the Mind of the Architect (three one-hour ABC-TV documentaries, 2000).
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  • M3Event

    M3 spoke to The Necks' bass player Lloyd Swanton about filesharing and the industry, and discovered why social media sites might not be such a benefit after all - http://m3event.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/interview-the-necks/

    17 days ago

  • thecarboncopy

    20 dollars for a CD is weird http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Necks/ Unreasonable prices call for improv

    23 days ago

  • InASafePlace

    AH, already have this one. :P

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  • davidjcubberly

    Mindset: http://thenecks.com/shop

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  • InASafePlace

    New album? Where?

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  • davidjcubberly

    Something I always think about is how skewed The Necks play counts are on Last.fm because of their long tracks. Some quick math says that on average a typical Necks track is 50 minutes. If a "normal" song is on average about 4 minutes, that means for every one Necks track, another band would have about 12 tracks. Therefore, if you extrapolate that equation to the current overall play count for The Necks, that puts them at over 1.6 Million plays. It would be awesome if last.fm would also calculate how long an artist has been listened to. You can also extrapolate this with your personal counts of The Necks. That would put them at my #2 slot for most listened to artist!

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  • schloppypoppy

    new album's paradise.

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  • d1lll1nger

    auuuu...brilliant!

    March 2012
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