Michael J. Hex

Michael Brasell, born 1966, died 2004, from New Zealand. He co-founded Noseflute Records and ran Arclife records. He released a number of solo albums under "Michael J Hex" Michael J Hex started his musical career in Christchurch in the late 1980s. In the mid 1990s he began releasing his solo work on Noseflute, a DIY label that he co-founded. His work includes beautiful, affecting love songs as well as instrumental soundscapes via loops and processed/found sounds. He was a prolific artist with an uncompromising vision who created a body of work that was energetic, provocative, and emotionally complex. -Michael Canning