Photo: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Musician, sound engineer and builder, Dan Beban is known around Wellington as that guy who's in a dozen bands.
His new book Future Jaw-Clap tells the story of a highly influential movement in New Zealand music: the self-made musicians of pioneering free jazz ensemble Primitive Art Group. They carved out their own radical musical language in '80s Wellington, and went on to help shape the music of Aotearoa.
In his spare time Dan also builds musical instruments from found objects, and composed the new Saturday Morning theme music with Rikki Gooch from Trinity Roots.
