"Future Jaw-Clap tells the story of a highly influential movement in New Zealand music: the self-made musicians of pioneering free jazz ensemble Primitive Art Group, who carved out their own radical musical language in the cold, hard reality of 1980s Wellington, and have gone on to richly diverse careers in music.
From their beginnings as ‘the punks of jazz’ in small clubs and the anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid protests of the early 1980s, through the heyday of the Braille Collective's many colourful groups, self-released records and intersections with dance, theatre and visual arts, to the Six Volts providing music for the iconic album Songs From the Front Lawn, and beyond, these musicians and the many others they have drawn into their orbit have done much to shape the music of Aotearoa.
Based on a deep oral history project and extensive archival research by Daniel Beban (Orchestra of Spheres), and vividly illustrated with photographs and other items, Future Jaw-Clap is a portal into an extraordinary musical world, and a celebration of a vibrant living tradition."
Cover photo: Primitive Art Group, c. 1983, clockwise from bottom: Stuart Porter, David Donaldson, David Watson, Neill Duncan, Anthony Donaldson. Stuart Porter collection (missing - the other key member of Braille Collective, Janet Roddick, a member of Four Volts, Six Volts, Brainchilds, Jungle Suite). Cover design: Carla Schollum.
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A short film by Martin Long about the Wellington music scene based around the Braille Collective. Shot in 1985.
Features The Primitive Art Group – Anthony Donaldson, Stuart Porter, Neill Duncan, David Donaldson, David Watson.
Jungle Suite – Janet Roddick, David Long, Neill Duncan.
Family Mallet – Gerard Crewdson, Stuart Porter, Anthony Donaldson
Three Volts – Peter Daly. Anthony Donaldson, David Donaldson
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