Soundfossil is a musical project led by composer, songwriter, art-maker and giant-puppeteer Nick Wilson. It’s a live chamber-folk sextet, an overwrought bedroom project, and a vehicle for soundtrack work and creative experiments.
The lineup is bursting with reeds and reverb, featuring Bassoon, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Reed Organ, sparkly Electric Guitars and lashings of Mighty Gong.
The songs teeter between consolation and provocation – they are sardonic, cerebral, passionate and obstinate… We indulge in the fashionable despair of the age, and we make you a tea and we tell you you’re beautiful.
We like dumb loud street-parades & stretching in the sun.
We like the way the firelight bounces round your whiskey-glass.
We want to entertain you but not too much cos boredom builds character.
The Band
A Soundfossil show is a sonic indulgence and a mutual consolation: we bring homemade snacks, plumes of fragrance, and a hot and heady steam-bath energy, to console your fucked-up mind.
The Current Lineup is:
Nick Wilson – Electric Guitar & Vocals;
Lauren Garcia – Clarinet & Bass Clarinet & Vocals
Sara Rafferton – Bassoon
Erin Hall – Vocals & Gong
Michael Edwards – Electric Guitar
Adrian May – Organ, Harmonium
The Soundtracks
Nick has composed soundtracks for Snuff Puppets, The Laudanum Project (The Grand-Guignol Automaton), Think Blink Theatre (Into The Darkness), and We Are Nothing (Somnambulists).
Recent scores include the animated short film “Correa” by Lachlan Plain/Sanctum Theatre, and Snuff Puppets major new show “Swamp”, a moody soundscape of antique pump organ, guitars, woodwinds & synthesizers befitting the giant puppeteers’ bleak and moving spectacle of ecological collapse.
The Solo Demos
It began as lockdown diversions where too many overdubs fight off isolation madness through nasty headphones in an all-night mess of plugins and frankincense.
Layers of guitar, pump-organ, bozouki, ukulele, accordian, drum machine, percussion and voice are built up into maximalist arrangements that experiment with the possibilities of a song & inform later band interpretations.
Stream the 6 track EP for free on SoundCloud.
Download the 2-track singles “Microscope” and “The Dancing Plague” for free on Bandcamp (click “buy” & enter $0).
The Studio Album – “Every Creeping Thing”
“Every Creeping Thing” is Soundfossil’s immense studio debut. Produced by Damien Sutton of The Bon Scotts, and performed by 13 musicians over 8+ years, its 14 songs are densely layered with up to 60 tracks of meticulous sonic detail. Featuring members of Mangelwurzel, All The Colours, Sforzando, The Ramshackle Army, Rusted Tongue and The Melbourne Opera. Cheeky sneak peek coming soon.