Little Skull

Little Skull is Dean Brown's long running solo project. He plays all instruments, even if it sounds like he is barely touching them and yet his obscure personal fingerprints are all over the place. His instinctive spontaneous playing finds ways to make them glow and fizz and ripple.

Dean Brown is a New Zealander from Hamilton. A joke city to much of the rest of New Zealand, but its feral mongrel out-of-it-ness is well known to those that have lived there. Dean coped with Hamilton through his bands Negative Eh and Nova Scotia and then buggered off to other cities and other countries. He is currently living in the UK.

There have been three Little Skull releases on Horn of Plenty so far, and a Nova Scotia LP is due to be released in November.

Warm Currency

Warm Currency is a new project by Sydney-based friends, artists and musicians MP Hopkins and Mary MacDougall. Mary began working with MP Hopkins and Christopher Schueler in 2008 as Vincent Over the Sink morphed into The Bowles. Their recent Returns EP on Horn of Plenty was recorded in Mary’s home during 2020-2021 and is their first release since 2012’s The Bowles EP (Kye). 

Expect quietly intense folk music, song-poems, and concrète collages built from seemingly simple and delicate arrangements for guitar, keyboards, voice and tape.

Francis Plagne

Francis Plagne is a musician from Melbourne whose work integrates idiosyncratic forms of songwriting with a variety of other approaches, including group improvisation, instrumental miniatures and domestic musique concrète. He has been performing live regularly since 2005 and has released recordings on labels such as Horn of Plenty, Black Truffle, Kye Records, Penultimate Press and his own Mould/Mouse Museum micro-label.

In addition to performing his own work, either solo or with a band, he has performed and recorded in improvised and other arrangements with Tetuzi Akiyama, Oren Ambarchi, Andrew Chalk, Crys Cole, James Rushford, and Joe Talia, among others.