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Buzzing Things is a wildly experimental new album released this week that combines acoustic guitar music, field recordings of nature sounds, sampled flies, abstract noises and a 2:15 world band radio static solo. Come for the guitar songs, stay for the weirdness.

loose • wig (n)

An exceptionally uninhibited performer; a way-out musician. One whose wig has flipped beyond the norm.

- The Guinness Dictionary of Jazz

Live Spiders is Joe LaBrecque of Bright. Please check out Bright's page (www.myspace.com/brightsounds) and the pages for Nonloc (www.myspace.com/nonloc and www.nonloc.com), the fantastic solo project of Bright's Mark Dwinell.

For a small country New Zealand has long been pumping out some impressive music. Way back in the 1960s it was crazed long-haired punkers messed up on all sorts of stuff - musical (the Pretty Things, Love, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Troggs and who-knows-what-else) and I guess otherwise.

Mosaic Mosaic is Australian artist David Smith. Weaving guitar, ukulele, toy instruments, broken synths, stuttering percussion and bits of voice together to create songs that are as rough and ugly as they are warm and shiny.

It is a very diverse stuff, ranging from the examples of alt-folk, straightforward pop punk and twee-pop to free form guitar improvisations and noise music.