 Cicada are an Auckland-based guitar-oriented band. Since forming in 1992, Cicada have recorded and successfully aired many demos on student radio throughout the country and have amassed considerable live experience, including support slots for touring international acts such as Fugazi and Yage.
Oscillator EP
Oscillator is Cicada's debut EP, self-financed and released on Failsafe Records.
Four tracks "Winter", "Alphajerk", "Good", and "Sway" were recorded on 24 track at The Lab in September 1994 and engineered by Chris Van de Geer and produced by Richard Aspden and Cicada. Track five was recorded
at York Street Studio in April 1993, engineered by Malcolm
Welsford and produced by
Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke fame and producer
of Shihad's Churn Album.
Reflective of live Cicada performances,
a wide variety of sonic technology was utilised in the
creation of the Oscillator product including acoustic,
electronic, digital, analogue, modern and antiquated
equipment with the aim of capturing a broad frequency
response and 'deep' audial scope. Oscillator captures
well the elusive Cicada 'sound' - an invitation to new
angles of listening pleasure. "... its great to see a band with
a good sense of dynamics; one minute we're thrown into
a gliding, sparse landscape, and the next; walls of distortion
cave in upon us - and all perfectly executed". live
review, Intravene Magazine A limited edition
lathe-cut 7" vinyl
single featuring "Alphajerk" and "Winter" was
released by the band to follow the Oscillator EP.
The band recorded and self-released a follow-up album of material in 1997. Cicada are:
Andrew P Denton - guitars
Andrew Spraggon - vocals + guitars + keyboards (now known as Sola Rosa)
John Taylor - drums + samples
Kevin Tutt - bass
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