First peak at the new record from the participants of Tone List’s Sounding Together 2020. Fifteen improvisers in the south-west of WA. It is a difficult recording to explain, but an incredible listening experience. From the liner notes:
In January 2020, 15 artists joined on Wadandi Noongar boodja in the south-west of Western Australia at a shack on the edge of Meelup Regional Park. Across a week of playing, chatting and devising the group produced hours of music and performances. This recording documents two pertinent plays at different transition points in the day: a moonrise at Meelup Beach (Noongar: place of the moon rising) and a dawn at Boranup forest (place of the male dingo) amongst the Karri trees. The recordings are presented here in two side-length pieces, framed by shorter episodes that foreground the play (and downright silliness) that happened a lot of the rest of the time, and which nurtured these otherwise mysterious and sonically expansive pieces.
The album includes a sound collage by Stuart Orchard, entitled ‘Normal (Interlude),’ bifurcating the longer recordings. With catchphrase “I just wanna be normal” it is a little silly, but begs repeated listening.
Meelup (Moonrise), Boranup (Sunrise) is one of four Tone List releases slated for April 6th release during the Audible Edge Festival 2021, a near two week exploration of sound centred in Boorloo/Perth.
Recorded by Josten Myburgh
Mastered by Dan O’Connor @ENCODERSound