Michael Hodgson has forged a relentless path in the music world since his early days as Tinnitus, a music & performance art project with Angus McNaughton and Ashley Turner in Christchurch in the 80’s, and then as The Projector Mix, an industrial dub project in Auckland in the 90’s. The latter led to him meeting Paddy Free and forming Pitch Black. Pitch Black have since released 5 albums and toured the world many times.

The first Misled Convoy release was a live album recorded at Beautiful Music, Auckland in 1999 and was followed by remixes of acts from around the world, including NZ's own The Adults, London pop punks Feral Five and ambient dub pioneer Banco de Gaia.

Living on opposite sides of the planet since 2012, Pitch Black's last hiatus gave Hodgson the chance to finally record “Tickling the Dragon's Tail” in 2014. Hailed as “stunning” by Louder than War, it was expectedly dark and dubby, but was also surprisingly groovy in parts with plenty of ambience and noise in there too.

Now Misled Convoy is back with the sublime new album “Sixteen Sunsets”, alive with sonic ideas and influenced by the multitude of sounds he's gathered as he travels the world. ‘Found sounds’ recorded in Iceland, Sweden, Turkey, Italy, Croatia, Spain, Greece, England and Austria have been woven together into delicate yet sophisticated pastiches, layered and twisted with beats and melody, leaving the listener to sense the world around. The cicadas of a Greek island, the automated voice of a Stockholm bus, the sounds of rubber on cobblestones at a Roman roundabout, the unusual chug of a narrowboat on a London canal – all are drenched in effects and underpinned with Hodgson’s signature dub and bass.