Gest -Releases

Gest01 - Nest / mhfs
3" CDr

Nest recorded this with MHFS before he left for Japan. Documents a special moment in Auckland music.

Others have said it better than we can: 

Reviews:
NEST & MHFS (3"CDR by Gest)
A huge forthright rumble emerges from this collaboration between New Zealand's nest, a duo of Nigel Wright on laptop and Andrew Scott on guitar, and Mhfs, aka, Mark Sadgrove. Drawing from and updating the overloaded guitar psychedelia of Fennesz and My Bloody Valentine, nest/mhfs scrape away the melody and wallow gloriously in the sheer excess of engorged, erotic textural whiteout.
Jon Dale - The Wire (UK) March 2007 

NEST & MHFS (3"CDR by Gest)
On a new New Zealand label called Gest the result of a concert at the
Wine Cellar in Auckland between MHFS and Nest. Behind MHFS we find Mark Sadgrove, whose music has been reviewed before. He uses the laptop filled with field recordings around the house. Nest is a new name for me, and it's Andrew Scott "mostly guitars" and Nigel Wright "mostly
laptop". The guitar feeds into the laptop, gets transformed and the
real guitar responds to that. As a trio in a wine cellar they create
dense sonic patterns, which start out right in your face and over the
course of the next fourteen minutes only will increase in density. A
dirty and vicious sound that has nothing to do with microsound, but in
stead harks back to the lo-fi drone music of the New Zealand scene. As
such powerful stuff indeed. (FdW) - Vital Weekly

.....Nest is a duo, featuring Wright and LA based sound maker Andrew Scott, and for this little 3" the two have teamed up with Mark Sadgrove (of MHFS and Infintesimal) and together these three kick up quite a din, huge distorted washes of sound that shift and pulse and twist and throb like something alive. Burning white hot and blown out, it's a glistening wall of supernova guitars, wreathed in a hazy cloud of dense distortion and buzzy reverb. Like a single shard of My Bloody Valentine psychrock blowout, looped and run through a busted up old distortion pedal. A gloriously crumbling, coruscating blast of face melting psychedelic free noise bliss.
Aquarius Records (www.aquariusrecords.org) USA

Gest02 - Nest / Tim Coster
CDr 

 Tim Coster's beautifully designed and layered field recordings meet and meld with the distinctive Nest drone. Detailed, viscous sound, all recorded live at the Wine Cellar in Auckland, NZ.

Reviews:
The Nest/Tim Coster recording was made at the Wine Cellar (like the previous Nest & MHFS (see Vital Weekly 560) and is quite a hissy affair of mainly guitar like sounds, but with the presence of two computer, no doubt the sound has been picked up and modified, altered and processed inside the world of ones and zeroes. Slowly moving around, high in the field of lo-fi drones, this is a most enjoyable release of experimental drone music, still like they do best in New Zealand.
fdw - Vital Magazine 575

Gest03 - Jane Austen - Tusk! Two

This small CD was released quietly in Wellington in early 2007. Jane Austen takes her processed purr and piano fixation to the a more abstracted level. On Tusk! Two, field recordings are cut up into tiny little pieces, the fragments sewn back together into three short, ponderous tracks.

Recently out :
Gest04 - Nigel Wright - Flotter