about



elegant bachelor are bruce and shaz! we are always available to play gigs, do collaborations, score film soundtracks, learn new music things or make friends. contact us for whatever reason at elegantbachelor@shoreless.org.


bio

elegant bachelor started out sometime in the middle of 2003 as shaz's solo side-project which basically comprised of her playing detuned guitar upside down (left-handed guitars are hard to find) and recording it into the pc using a shitty mic. to keep her entertained when she was bored at night. after a few months of this, however, shaz found other things to keep her entertained and elegant bachelor was forgotten...

however, in its absence from shaz's mind, people started to show interest and when a film student approached shaz about re-recording one of her songs to use in a film, elegant bachelor once again made it's re-appearance! to disastrous effect, since shaz couldn't really remember how to play the songs because she didn't bother to write down any of the tunings.

and then! another person approached shaz about writing music for a film. so shaz, older and wiser and in posession of a laptop now, decided to join forces with the mighty bruce and make elegant bachelor an ELECTRONIC DUO! using the laptop as the primary instrument enabled them to (somewhat) circumvent the problem of shitty mics (for awhile) and produce good quality (meaning without unwanted background noise) music for shawn lee miller's film entitled fan people.

after that was over, one of their friends decided to give them a slot at his gig for which music-making started again. combining live components such as vocals and noise-making instruments with the existing electronic one, elegant bachelor actually managed a satisfactory (to us) live performance but once again brought up the problem of their inability to record with mics (which is why we haven't recorded any vocals or live instruments yet).

anyway, after all this, elegant bachelor collectively discovered that they really like making music. so here we are. hello!



our favourite music

elegant bachelor's REAL ULTIMATE MUSIC HEROES are
john cage, lee ranaldo, john coltrane, lou reed, bruce springsteen, sergei rachmaninoff, gustav mahler, bjork, nina simone, nick drake, ludwig van beethoven, magma, iron maiden, sonic youth, karlheinz stockhausen, genesis p. orridge, einsturzende neubauten, winterkalte, shakti, maurice ravel, claude debussy, bhimsen joshi, erik satie, arnold schoenberg, merzbow, phillip glass, steve reich, la monte young, miles davis, belle and sebastian, ute lemper, tortoise, kraftwerk, joy division and all the un-named people on the traditional music tracks.