Biography
Kim Pieters is a Dunedin based musician, painter, photographer and digital filmmaker. Born in Rotorua in 1959, she first indulged in the creative arts via visual forms in the early 1980s – she has been responsible for many album covers over the years, including The Kiwi Animal‘s ‘Music Media‘ cover in 1984.
In 1991 Pieters appeared as a vocalist on Dadamah‘s debut single ‘Nicotine‘ – her first collaboration with Dadamah drummer Peter Stapleton; who she would continue to work with for the next 20 years. By the release of Dadamah‘s 1992 album ‘This is not a dream‘ she was the quartet’s permanent bassist.
Sex/Machine – Pieters / Russell / Stapleton (1999, Metonymic)
In 1995 the duo of Stapleton and Pieters would form the Metonymic label – the first release being the debut from the 3-piece Rain; featuring Pieters, Stapleton and guitarist / keyboardist Danny Butt. Metonymic would release 25 important underground and free noise releases between 1995 and 2009.
Pieters and Stapleton (who were a couple from the late 1980s until the early 2000s) would also form Dunedin’s critical fringe music festival Lines of Flight, which debuted in 2000.
Members
- Kim Pieters (Dadamah, Doramaar, Flies Inside The Sun, Rain, Sleep, Cobweb Iris, bass / organ / synthesizer / drums)
Discography
- Last Glass (w/ Bruce Russell, Peter Stapleton, 1995, Corpus Hermeticum, HERMES007)
- Sex/Machine (w/ Bruce Russell, Peter Stapleton, 1999, Metonymic, METONYMIC005)
- Cold Sweat 7: (w/ Bruce Russell, Peter Stapleton, 2001?, Ecstatic Yod, E#4e/FYPS14)
- Btwxt/Bdvld (w/ Campbell Kneale, James Kirk, 2003, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Links
- Discogs entry
- Oral Histories: Peter Stapleton (Audio Foundation)