Ascension Band

"With its combination of punk, post-punk, classical, jazz, straight rock, opera and music hall, the Ascension Band is that rare thing: something wholly other. They retain avant-garde cred and still manage to rock harder than AC/DC" - varsity.co.nz Ascension Band was an award-winning 14-piece 2003-2005 Wellington, New Zealand supergroup collaboration: between leftfield writer/guitarist/organiser Dave Edwards (fiffdimension), organist/composer/conductor Nigel Patterson (The Chandeliers), laptop maestro Frey...

"With its combination of punk, post-punk, classical, jazz, straight rock, opera and music hall, the Ascension Band is that rare thing: something wholly other. They retain avant-garde cred and still manage to rock harder than AC/DC" - varsity.co.nz Ascension Band was an award-winning 14-piece 2003-2005 Wellington, New Zealand supergroup collaboration: between leftfield writer/guitarist/organiser Dave Edwards (fiffdimension), organist/composer/conductor Nigel Patterson (The Chandeliers), laptop maestro Frey, Control 6580, Mike Kingston, Francesca Mountfort, lyricist/vocalist Atsushi Iseki, and members of Thought Creature, Hell Fucken Rumble, mr sterile Assembly, Spartacus R, and many more. Ascension Band won best music award in the 2005 Wellington Fringe Festival for their 6-movement 'Electric Symphony: Evolution'. Other works include 'Revolution', the 'Live 2004' DVD and their first performance, a live cover of John Coltrane's 'Ascension' after which the band was named. - www.fiffdimension.co.nz/ascensionband.htm User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..