‘The Foundling Wheel is an Edinburgh-based solo project,’ says project brains Ted Koterwas, who is originally from California and plays bass and guitar, uses drum loops and samples, as well as live electronics and his voice (with some live drumming featuring last time as well). ‘I used to be a drummer. I like noisy, broken-sounding things. I like things that are highly structured but fall apart and puzzles that don’t fit together perfectly. I like small bits of pretty things in the middle of ugly things, and ugly things in the middle of pretty things.’
The Foundling Wheel started in 2007 and has shared the stage with Xiu Xiu, Pivot, So So Modern, Zombie Zombie, Drum Eyes, Felix Kubin, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, and was part of the Bear Scotland collective with Meursault, DeadBoyRobotics, Withered Hand, and Enfant Bastard. It’s certainly electronica, Jim, but not as we know it, with a high level of punk-rock energy. His eponymous debut album was released in 2008. The single “Noises Like Ashes” was released in July 2009.
