music". One of Walker's associates on the album was Kevin White. Walker was also a member of P. Harness, which Enfield opined were "madcap ocker goons", with Geoff Hinchcliffe on guitar and lead vocals; and Mikel Simic on drums and lead vocals. By August 1995 they released their second album, @ction. Simic described its underlying theme: "all the songs are specifically about eating, [or] they've got food references through them". In October that year Walker and White supplied the music for a stage play, The Fortress, at Studio One, Braddon. Walker completed his tertiary studies in Shanghai with a degree in Linguistics and Mandarin Chinese. He also lived in India "absorbing musical influences". Upon return to Australia Walker continued his musical career living near Wollongong. His album, Abstract Poverty, was released in 1997 on the Way Over There label. Hans Uhad of Stylus Magazine felt it showed a "juxtaposition of slow burning, moody, Codeine-like numbers with deft, mildly psychotic stabs at fusing traditional Celtic music with his own burnt version of Americana and flamenco". One of the tracks, "Jezebel", was a re-recorded version of his earlier work as Shed Method. For touring Walker expanded the band with Guy Freer on accordion and keyboards; Marianthe Loucataris on drums; and Jonathan Nix on bass and samples. Machine Translations' second album, Halo, appeared in the following year on Way Over There and was distributed by Shock Records. White provided clarinet for the album. His next album on Way Over There was Holiday in Spain which was released in 1999. Kelsey Munro of The Sydney Morning Herald felt the album was a "criminally ignored underground classic". Comes with a Smiles Matt Dornan noted there is "no disguising the homemade feel of both music and sparse packaging, but there's certainly a twisted core to this antipodean walkabout through sonic pastures new". Walker co-produced the album with Kimmo Vennon, he also used guest vocalists including Kirsty Stegwazi. Walker had provided guitar on tracks for Stegwazi's solo album, Keep Still (1999). At times Machine Translations performed with White aboard under the name Thing of a Thousand Strings. In 2000 he worked on his next album, Bad Shapes (21 May 2001). Walker was joined in the studio by Freer on saxophone and accordion; Loucataris on lead vocals, drums and percussion; Nix on double bass; White on clarinet, broken piano and percussion; and Gemma Clare on cello; Kazuaki Nakahara