The Amazing Sloth Rider

The Amazing Sloth Rider makes music that often begins as a gentle ambient soundscape but gets destroyed with noise and ugly textures, creating new songs from the bones left behind.

Sometimes he does less wanky stuff, and just jams with friends and strangers, or plays with himself and films it.

Actually that sounds even more wanky and weird.

Fuck it, you get me. I play music and use loops and pedals and shit, often outdoors in remote locations. I don’t need much to be content, and many of the things I do are for my own amusement.

In 2021 I went on an adventure that I turned into a film, Do Your Thing. It’s a story about playing improvised music outdoors, where audiences weren’t necessary but doing something creative and challenging was. You can find it here.

Along with making music I also like to write stories and share thoughts and essays about what I’m up to, occasionally combining spontaneous live writing sessions with improvised music. In the past I’ve done challenges, and in 2025 I’m listening to a new album each week and sharing that on Substack.

When not creating things I like to read books in the sun, stay up far too late when in good company, and go car camping around the country in my 2006 Honda Jazz. Speaking of 2006, I’ve been a psychiatric nurse since then and have spent the last couple of years traveling around Australia working in community mental health. 

I don’t claim to know much, but I think it’s important to be authentic, eccentric, and eclectic. Sometimes that means I’m a polite cunt. Other times I’m too drunk and verbose to be that uncouth.