Full Fathom Five is a six-piece band from Brisbane

Brisbane

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, Australia

Australia

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, that performs a minimalist blend of rock

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

 and electronica

Electronica

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 that has been described as "Chemical Brothers on valium" http://www.sceneonline.com.au/pages/cstories/fullfathom5.html. In addition to their own albums, Full Fathom Five have recorded and performed with post-classical quintet Topology

Topology (musical ensemble)

Topology is a post-modernist quintet from Australia, formed in 1997. A leading Australian new music ensemble, they perform throughout Australia and abroad and have to date released four albums, including one with rock/electronica band Full Fathom Five and one with contemporary ensemble Loops. ...

 producing the critically acclaimed album Future Tense, and have been commissioned to remix many Australian artists such as Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly (musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...

, David Bridie

David Bridie

David Bridie is a musician from Melbourne, Australia. Bridie first rose to prominence as a member of Not Drowning, Waving, which he started in the early 1980s with guitarist John Phillips. They released four albums on Australian independent labels to some level of critical acclaim and very limited...

, Sunk Loto

Sunk Loto

Sunk Loto was an alternative metal band from Queensland, Australia. The band's members were vocalist, Jason Brown, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Luke McDonald, drummer Dane Brown and Sean Van Gennip who was the bass player in the band from 1998 until 2006...

 and Tulipan

Tulipan

Tulipan is a Brisbane-based Hungarian fusion band who were active from 1993 to 2000.Virag Antal, founder of the group, learned to play the traditional folk instruments hurdy gurdy, zither and cimbalom or hammered dulcimer while at school in Hungary. It is a still rarity to see these instruments...

. Collaborations with local visual artists have produced award winning film clips, powerful stage performances and highly collectable street press and poster art. During Full Fathom Five's earlier years a lot of their supplied press photography was in the form of substituted photos featuring collections of five or more people, usually old Russian or eastern European photographs and much of their poster art was inspired by early propaganda or futurist imagery. Its members have included Tam Patton, Josh Thomson, Robert Mynard, Ian Thompson, Sam Korman, Ben Thomson, James Capt and Christian Ronquillo. Full Fathom Five is signed to Brisbane label Valve Records.
The name of the band comes from a line in The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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Albums

• 07 Seven (2001)
  1. Ready Light
  2. 5 Minutes From Machine
  3. Anxiety
  4. One Small Step
  5. ...
  6. Going Equipped
  7. Eternal Struggle
  8. So Now You're Paul Simon's Producer
  9. Gumbo
  10. Auf Wiedersehn
  11. Who's Your Daddy?
  12. Moreton Roller

• Sides (2003)
  1. Built you a gun
  2. Sides
  3. Desert
  4. The Sea
  5. Riding falling elevators
  6. Bringing down the champion
  7. Casino
  8. Wire Loop
  9. Four & Twenty
  10. Perfect Landing

• Future Tense (with Topology) (2004)
  1. OutInOut
  2. FF5-1 (5 Notes)
  3. Killing Music
  4. Going Equipped
  5. Between Stations
  6. John Brown
  7. Stress Positions
  8. 5 Minutes from Machine
  9. Bad People Have Parties Too
  10. The Mystical Forms of War
  11. Spiral Coda

External links

• Official site