Wheel 'em Out

Just a Sock, with stories to tell and songs to Sing.

Bevan Mical comes from Turua,New Zealand & writes songs when he feels something needs saying.
By no means a huge artist he has an appreciation for music that is edging close to musical insanity & appreciates every single play that is added to his tally.
If you search his catalog you just might find one you can relate to.

Full Albums :

One At A Time
Swinging Through Trees
Exhausting The Muse
Division & Difference

Singles :

This Year/Resolutions
Rights To Kindness
Revoked
Cuts Through The Years
You Do You
Phi Fie Faux
To Be Kind

Creative Director. Musical Producer, Audio eng. Sound Branding, Games, Sound Design. A&R, Music Curator.

𝙇𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙤𝙥𝙁𝙤𝙡𝙠

This is my work, and it’s distinct.

All about dishing out raw emotions.. Sometimes you just gotta have to shift perspective.

~this is an individual journey~

Minimal Sonic, Alternative folk, Dream pop, Psychedelic folk, Acoustic music, Neo-psychedelia, Psychedelia



IG: @9lives.wayne 
Melodic Trapper🦇💊❗

Trying to make the best music I can. Collabs are always open. if you actually bump me I fwu

Richard Grist – A Voice from the Jagged Edges of Indie Rock
Born and based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Richard Grist is a singer-songwriter whose music fuses raw storytelling with atmospheric indie rock. Drawing inspiration from artists like Band of Horses, Wilco, and Nick Cave, his songs explore themes of longing, resilience, and self-discovery.

Richard's distinctive songwriting has earned him a growing following, blending melodic, cinematic soundscapes with introspective lyrics. Whether crafting delicate acoustic pieces or expansive, guitar-driven tracks, his music reflects the emotional depth of an artist who has lived through the highs and lows of creativity.

In 2023, Richard gained viral traction on TikTok (@richardgristmusic), sharing songwriting insights and behind-the-scenes glimpses of his creative process. As the frontman of Blackhole Stars, he reached #1 on the Repost Exchange Pop/Rock Chart with the album Halfway Home. Now stepping into his solo career, Richard is carving his own path with a sound that’s both intimate and anthemic.

With new music on the horizon, Richard Grist invites listeners into a world where melancholy meets hope, and every song tells a story.

📍 For Fans of: The National, The War on Drugs, City and Colour
🎵 Listen on: [Spotify] | [Bandcamp] | [YouTube]
📲 Follow on TikTok & Instagram: @richardgristmusic

Darkwave is my experimental music project built on the backbone of old-school metal riffs, with an outlook to a wide variety of musical scenes. Despite its intimate connections with progressive – and even thrash – metal, the musical dynamics I try to accomplish in Darkwave often deviates from the classical concept of the genre (e.g. the catching tempo generated by tight rhythmicity), and incorporates elements with significantly different tonal and emotional characteristics, ranging from thrash, power, doom or symphonic metal themes to electronic, classical or even jazz elements.

Such a diverse mixture of different styles is seldom intentional, but rather a mixture of instinctual and intentional elements reflecting the character of the composer and the impact of influences shaping the songwriting process. Balancing on the razor-sharp edge between these domains of human consciousness, I think it’s always revealing to indentify the composer’s primary influences to understand the core philosophy behind the final product. Despite their essential innervation with thrash metal, my main influences come from somewhere far beyond, from the distant realms of hard rock, NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal), and – in certain extent – from classical (or even gregorian) music. I see it as some kind of an evolutionary process: first it was the intensity, then the complexity of the music that grabbed my attention and put a significant emphasis on my way of looking at all things music. Regarding the metal frontrunners, the complexity of the Shermann-Denner duo’s guitarwork as well as the dark, monumental, epic atmosphere of Tony Iommi‘s musical skyscrapers clearly shaped my personal attitude to music. Still, the artistic genius of the late Jon Lord (who aimed at building bridges between “old” and “new”, traditional and modern) was that characteristical influence that put its almost deterministic mark on my musical taste and creations. I started to listen to bands that somehow unite various territories of the world of music: it felt amazing to listen to Mekong Delta’s Suite for Group and Orchestra or the jazz-metal fusions by Atheist until the point that I could finally identify a third essential element besides intensity and complexity: the gloomy, epic, emotional (sometimes sad) and monumental atmosphere: something that I could find so often not only in music, but also in my favorite books and poems. And this is that exact point, where the intentional and instinctual motifs become somewhat indistinguishable from each other, and form a distinct entity of thoughts, feelings, desires and aims that might be characterized as my personal attitude to music, art – and in general, life.

It’s not that hard to grip the essence of that attitude. I tend to agree with G. K. Chesterton‘s paradoxical jeremiad from 1905 on the loss of universals (“…we are more and more to discuss details in art, politics, literature… Everything matters — except everything.“) and accept that it’s always the core philosophy behind art (or “everything“…) that we must understand, if we ever want to grab the creator’s personality that is mirrored in the final product. The secondary details in composition, performance or production are merely consequences of this primary attitude or basic approach behind the creative process. My primary aim with Darkwave has always been (and will ever be) nothing else but to formulate, express and transmit feelings and thoughts without words, while constantly realizing that there exists nothing more suitable to facilitate this communication between human souls than music itself.

“When words fail, music speaks.”

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.





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