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long-sounds, the latest live set from orphans, is out now on Bandcamp. It was recorded at the July 2021 edition of Outcome Unknown, an experimental music series at Maylands Yacht Club, curated and hosted by Eduardo Cossio. The second of the two tracks, ‘influenced by heavy weather,’ drawing on the sonic backdrop created by a pretty intense storm sweeping through Boorloo during the concert.
Recorded by Josten Myburgh
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
The new orphans album has been a long time coming. Recorded in early 2019, and having congealed, fermented, and matured, it is out Friday May 21st. The album continues Dom Barrett (guitar), Ben Greene (drums) and Dan O’Connor’s (trumpet) exploration of sound and texture, constantly alluding to vision and narrative. The record liner notes read:
The departure from, and return to a singular, innocuous point in time—without moving, without thinking, without duration.
orphans often craft a situation or imagined context for their recorded work in order to anchor the art, and perhaps provide a starting point for the listener. On acquiescence/coalescence the band consider the instantaneous and the possibility of perceiving time outside of its regular flow. The situation is captured in crayon by artist Holli Scott for the cover artwork and the music is best consumed in one sitting and via headphones.
The first track acquiescence is streaming now on Bandcamp. It hits all your favourite streaming sights on Friday, May 21st.
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
Perth, Western Australia