The Twoks
Australia
The Twoks are a Melbourne-based improvised contemporary music trio featuring Xani Kolac on electric violin and vocals, Mark Leahy on drums and Stewart Taylor on electric bass. The music they create is unclassifiable. Read More
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News: Record Store Day 2012: What To DoOur guide to Record Store Day activities, which will take place around the country tomorrow (April 21). The list below isn’t exhaustive, so feel free to add any omissions in the comments section below. (If we’re feeling generous we might even put them up.) More event listings here . Photo by LEAH ROBERTSON . Adelaide Mr V Music (Semaphore): A record fair will be held at the Masonic Hall across the road on Sunday, 11am-5pm. Entry is free. Clarity Records (CBD): Second birthday celebrations. Twenty percent of all marked prices for CDs and vinyl on Saturday and Sunday. Blackwood Sound ...Mess and Noise20 April 2012
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Three for Today #14 – (ft. Jacob Wylde, John ..I have a confession to make. I’ve been listening to Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know on constant repeat since it was released. Not quite, but in all seriousness how great is that track? Here’s a few others that I’ve been enjoying.. Jacob Wylde – My Soul Triple J Unearthed is a great source [...]sabi's aus music blog26 July 2011
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the AU interview: Xani Colac & Mark Leahy of ..There are a plethora of bands in Melbourne all attempting to carve a career for themselves in our effervescent and often unrelenting arts scene. Very occasionally an artist will come along and knock you flat with the incredible beauty and subtle genius of their sound. Local bands The Twoks and Elephant Eyes are two of these groups whose love of jazz improv and pop melodies never cease to amaze and inspire. read moreThe AU Review24 July 2011
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The Twoks ‘240 Volts’The Twoks play music quite unlike anything I've ever heard before, and that in itself is something to be celebrated. Their sound is the perfect fusion of experimentation, pop, jazz, and electronica. Kolac is an electric violinist, and this permeates all of their music to create a very unique and memorable sound.And Pluck Your Strings26 June 2011
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TWOKSThe Twoks – Snails On the evening her hair fell away, Alia felt the air around her scalp, soothing her pores. The linoleum floor was littered with red strands, curled in bundles around her ankles. She knelt down and gathered each thread, running her fingers through. She licked the tips and tied one to her [...]Tune the Proletariat23 September 2010
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Music Interview: Xani Colac (The Twoks)Most Aussie punters will know Xani Colac from her work with local indie-experimentalists Yohosie; or perhaps her wild violin skills have reached you by some other means. Either way, her latest music offering comes in the form of The Twoks, a dark merger of electronica, jagged rock and nu-jazz. The Twoks have recently released It Won’t End That Way, a ten-track album. Colac explains the deeply diverse sound of The Twoks. “I think that the music I write is so influenced by the music I really love like Muse, Sigur Ros, Bjork…I love the really epic stuff. In ...Watch Out For27 May 2010
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Thursday March 25, with The TwoksPlaylist: Lisa Mitchell – Neopolitan Dreams The Revels – Cutting The Lights Goodnight Owl – Maps and Compasses No Through Road – The Chelsea Theatre The Stoics – Death Machine Cloud Control – This Is What I Said The Solomons – Evening’s Empire The Beautiful Girls – 10:10 Sally Seltmann – On The Borderline Seja [...]The Range on Radio Adelaide25 March 2010
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The Twoks, Tom Budge @ The Toff in Town, Mel ..The Toff in Town hosted The Twoks album launch on Wednesday night, with an appreciative crowd ignoring the mid-week slump for the band’s great performance. With plenty of guests in tow, the launch was certainly a strong sales pitch for the debut album, It Won’t End That Way. Support for the evening was provided by Tom Budge, who performed solo with only his acoustic guitar. Standing before a nice turnout of seated early comers, the first few numbers of Budge’s set saw the man singing perfectly, but performing awkwardly – his fuzzy hair and green sweater giving him ...Faster Louder7 October 2009
