radarmaker songs

All about radarmakers primary function: The music.

SONGS INDEX

In the seven years or so that radarmaker have been around they have amassed a huge number of songs. Here you can find out a little bit about some of the ones performed at our most recent gigs. The radarmaker sound is constantly evolving, but if you must lump us into some kind of genre try post-rock, shoe-gaze or indie. Do you see the cool little boxes to the left? They are meant to be synaesthetic representations for each of the songs, mental images that the music creates, yeah like MTV. Anyway click on one to read about a particular song, or just hit the links to the left.

Play

Play was written by Warwick before radarmaker existed and was one of the first songs the band ever played. As radarmaker became more noise-scape orientated the song was phased out of the set and almost forgotten until recording for an E.P began. The recording sessions proved to be slow and painful, and in the end Play was the only song to be labelled 'completed'. The crazy buggers at RTR liked the song and gave it plenty of time on air, and there was much rejoicing in the radarmaker camp.

Warwick Hall - Vocals, guitars
Wendi Graham - Guitars, vocals
Adam Trainer - Guitars
recorded by Sebastian Parsons @ the unit 2002

Helsinko

One of radarmakers more lively tracks, like a party where everyone is wearing pineapples. Heres a little story: A person in a glib little office manages to steal lots of money from their boss and goes to Hawaii were there are endless parties. The end.

Warwick Hall - Guitars
Wendi Graham - Guitars
Noah Norton - Guitars
Adam Trainer - Drums

Seajon Troy

Wendi announced at a gig that this song was written about the battle of troy, but I'm going to disagree with her. To me its about invasion and integration. It was the first thing that I wrote for radarmaker so I was scared whether it would fit in with the rest of their stuff, and whether I would for that matter. I was the Trojan Horse sneaking in, pretentious much?!

Warwick Hall - guitars
Wendi Graham - Vocals, glockenspiel
Noah Norton - Guitars, vocals
Adam Trainer - Drums

Cold Travis the Moon

The name comes from a painting by Adam that now hangs in the radarmaker living room gallery, admission is $5. Adam once said that in this song he is just innocently playing his glockenspiel when suddenly everything explodes over him in a giant wave. I guess that explains the contrasts and volatility of the song. This song is almost certainly going to be recorded at some stage.

Warwick Hall - Guitars
Wendi Graham - Sinewy guitars
Noah Norton - Drums
Adam Trainer - Glockenspiel

My Red is Blue

radarmaker thought they were a rock act for a minute and this one slipped out. My Red is Blue is a good chance for Adam to act like a wild beast, a chance he relishes in the normally mellow radarmaker. Every now and then you can hear him mutter the words: 'look at her face, she hangs from trees'. Does anyone know who or what he's talking about?

Warwick Hall - Guitars
Wendi Graham - Drums
Noah Norton - Guitars
Adam Trainer - Guitars, insane vocal howls

Conji

A radarmaker song that has lots of vocals?! Conji stemmed from the words and music of one of Adam's creations and has now become a textural landscape, explored in rock logic. The only words I can remember are 'surrender yourself or you're fucked up', I always assumed he was talking about ruthless business acumen, maybe not. Oh and the name 'Conji' has nothing to do with giant hairy gorillas, that was Congo.

Warwick Hall - Guitars
Wendi Graham - Drums
Noah Norton - Guitars
Adam Trainer - Vocals, guitars

Hurstville 1928

What started out as a beautiful and subtle tinker from Wendi was soon transformed into a soaring hulk of anxiety and thriving rhythm by the rest of the band. This is another song that is likely to be recorded soon.

Warwick Hall - Glockenspiel
Wendi Graham - Guitars
Noah Norton - Drums
Adam Trainer - Guitars

Hillside Mieno

A tribute to the genius of Brian Eno. This was written just before I joined the band and is in the process of being redeveloped. It goes bing bing bing bing. And i've spelt its name wrong, but I can't remember the correct letters. Boy am I gonna be in trouble.

Warwick Hall - Glockenspiel
Wendi Graham - guitars
Noah Norton - Drums
Adam Trainer - Bing Bing Bing Bing Guitar

Arm Versus Fiery Antenna

A brain child of warwick's, that slowly amassed into an angry, swirling, seething, teething, always with the circular motion. Yes. If you listen carefully you really can hear writhing antennas char grilling tiny little people.

Warwick Hall - Guitar
Wendi Graham - Guitars
Noah Norton - Drums
Adam Trainer - Broken guitar & fiery antennas

Atlas Shrugged

Although sharing a title with a rather famous novel, this song has decided to exist in denial of the origins of its name. One day Wendi came into rehearsal wearing a suit, and with a briefcase full of unknown quantities in tow, and began playing a light jazzy riff. But as is the want of radarmaker, the riff was soon masticated, and regurgitated into a jangly dischordant thing-a-ma-giggy.

Warwick Hall - Guitar
Wendi Graham - Guitars
Noah Norton - Pop Guitar
Adam Trainer - Drums

Rusalka

Twinkle, twinkle, underwater star, death saga, its all very romantic. It even has multiple vocalists. Yes, that's right, after many lonely nights without a microphone, radarmaker have now decided to share this microphone with their musical loved ones. It's like I dream of Jeanie, the R rated version.

Warwick Hall - Organator
Wendi Graham - like the sea of time at low tide & angelic vocal gymnastics
Noah Norton - guitar & pretenious warblings
Adam Trainer - Ancient roman splutterings of drum-like formations

Deliquesce

For some reason, despite being unfinished radarmaker played this little ditty at the bakery the other night. Its got lots o' words, Adam may post 'em later. I think its the story about a group of super intelligent aliens who build a sophisticated flying saucer to travel to earth, only to discover when they get there that their ship dissolves in the earths atmosphere. Actually its not about that at all.

Warwick Hall - Whorgan
Wendi Graham - Whoop Whoop guitar & Vocals
Noah Norton - Drums
Adam Trainer - Guitar, Vocals and Rock Star Poses.

Sashegyi

Stemming out of a jam because we were bored with our set, this is actually four songs shoved together and made to fit (reluctantly at times), including an old favourite called 'Trees of Greenland'. There is a lot of instrument swapping, but also a lot of atmosphere and brooding darkness. Adam chose the name from one of the families that he delivers milk to on his run, and no, we can't pronounce it either.

Warwick Hall - Guitar, Vox
Wendi Graham - Drums, Guitar, Vocal Warblings
Noah Norton - Guitar, Swagger, Drums
Adam Trainer - Guitar, Lots of Delay

Shallow Socialites Battle the Axe

This is one of those songs that just appeared, we never really wrote it, we were just playing around and there it was. It's a found song. Some one, you know who you are, described it so eloquently as 'elevator music for buildings that haven't been built yet.' We love that guy.

Warwick Hall - Guitar
Wendi Graham - Guitar, I wish I was Hope Sandoval Vox
Noah Norton - Moody Guitar, Vox
Adam Trainer - Drums

Whoop Tuffet

We still dont quite know how to explain this one. It was just kinda born one dark night in the rehearsal studio, and manifested itself into varoius forms and time signatures before setting on its current arrangement. Involving frantic screaming, enthusiastic guitaring, and enveloping droning, it even goes so far to educate on how bread is turned into toast.

Warwick Hall - Guitar
Wendi Graham - Guitar, Smiley Vox
Noah Norton - Drums
Adam Trainer - Guitar, Mumblings

Balthazaar

Wendi and Noah each wrote one part of this song and decided that they should indeed go together, regardless of the fact that one was in 3/4 and the other 4/4. That was about a year ago, and it is for this reason that it is only now beginning to get its public legs.