Grey Daturas

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Grey Daturas
Origin Flag of Australia Melbourne, Victoria
Genre(s) Experimental
Noise
Noise Rock
Years active 2001 - current
Label(s) Heathen Skulls
Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings
Emperor Jones
Neurot Recordings
SMD Records
Crucial Blast
20 Buck Spin
Throne
Rocket Recordings
Website http://www.greydaturas.com
Members
Bonnie Mercer
Robert Mayson
Robert MacManus

Grey Daturas are a noise rock band from Melbourne, Australia. The band formed in 2001, originally performing improvised music to 16 mm film projections. They cite their influences as The Stooges, Earth, John Coltrane, John Cage, Darkthrone, and DNA. Band members include Robert Mayson, Bonnie Mercer and Robert MacManus.

Copper / Silver, their collaboration with United States band Yellow Swans, was voted as one of the best 'avant rock' releases of 2005 by The Wire magazine.


[edit] Discography

  • The Grey Daturas CD (Black Mountain/Sonic Advisor, 2002)
  • Live Volume 1 3inch CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003)
  • Live Volume 2 3inch CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2003)
  • Dead in the Woods CD (Crashing Jets, 2004)
  • Copper / Silver 2 x CDR (collaboration with Yellow Swans) (Jyrk, 2005)
  • All I See is Nothing CD-EP (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2005)
  • Yellow Swans / Grey Daturas Australian Tour EP CD-EP (Heathen Skulls, 2005)
  • Live at the Rob Roy Hotel 2 x 3inch CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2006)
  • Blood Trail CD-EP (Heathen Skull, 2006)
  • Copper / Silver 2 x 12inch LP (collaboration with Yellow Swans) (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2006)
  • The Black Plague CD (split with Wolf Eyes) (Heathen Skulls, 2006)
  • The Black Plague 12inch LP (split with Wolf Eyes) (Conspiracy, 2006)
  • Path Of Niners CD (Heathen Skulls, 2006)
  • Grey Daturas / Shearing Pinx cassette (split with Shearing Pinx) (isolatednowwaves, 2006)
  • Live in Austin CDR (Diagnosis... DON'T! reCoRdings, 2007)
  • Path of Niners CD-EP (UK re-issue, Rocket Recordings, 2007)
  • Dead in the Woods CD (US re-issue, Crucial Blast, 2007)
  • Dawn of the Catalyst CD-EP (Split with France's Monarch) (20 Buck Spin, 2007)
  • Dawn of the Catalyst 12inch EP (Split with France's Monarch) (Throne, 2007)
  • Owly Claw Hammer 12inch EP (Emperor Jones, 2007)
  • Dead in the Woods CD (Japanese re-issue, SMD Records, 2008)
  • Return to Disruption (New Album due out in February 2008 on Heathen Skulls and Neurot Recordings)

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