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Tone List launched their edition of Disclaimer Journal, Where and How We Gather, at The Bird in March. The evening featured sets from Naomi Huttner-Koros, Merino Chute, and Myriad Sun who launched their track Hazard Waste as part of this Journal edition.
The Myriad Sun set was captured by Emma Daisy and Josten Myburgh, and Dan mastered the audio here at ENCODER Sound.
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.
strata is the new video album from experimental vocalist Sage Pbbbt, working under the pseudonym digital penetration. Pbbbt pieces together this sonically rich, glitchy record from acoustic and electronic samples manipulated in Reaper, and accompanies the work with visual component created in the same fashion. The pace and repetition of the music allows the listener to shift between the audio strata and engage at different time scales over the album. Also outstanding is the variation between tracks which reveals some heavy drops and disorienting moments, ultimately feeding anticipation for whatever might happen next.
strata is out now on Tone List
Produced by Sage Pbbbt
Mastered by Dan @ENCODERSound
strata will premiere in at the Audible Edge Festival 2021, April 17th, at Backlot Cinema
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
Out today is Nika Mo’s new single The Messenger of Death from the upcoming Of Cloven Hoof in Honey. It is the finest freak-folk going around. Musically, lyrically, conceptually, and sonically a really amazing listen. A little here about the concept (from Nika Mo’s liner notes):
One might wonder what is still relevant about the Grimm’s Fairytales; the social inequities and religious undertones of 19th century German culture are so solidly written into these stories, they’re like a fableist brick framework, holding each line firmly in (ideological) place. But in the shadow of the more widely known stories (Rumplestiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel), there are gooier, stranger, more unearthly things lurking. I feel genuine child-like glee as characters sprout feathers and make room-mates with a lion, or without surprise or alarm, communicate with the Devil, and Death; striking bargains and asking for help. I also feel a morbid fascination as a character discovers her sisters’ dismembered bodies then proceeds to reassemble them), or a disquieting queasiness reading the tale of How Some Children Played at Slaughtering, (which you can infer from the title, was not a fairytale ending). I find myself revelling in the fluidity of them; both the literal presence of many fluids (bodily and otherwise), and also the metaphorical slipperiness of the characters’ physical forms.
The full Of Cloven Hoof in Honey record is due to launch on April 6th during Tone List’s 2021 Audible Edge Festival. For the performance Nika Mo brings together many of the musicians who played on the record into a 9-piece ensemble which will lean into the extended improvised sections, filling The Rechabite Hall.
Recorded by Annika Moses
Mixed by Dan O’Connor & Annika Moses
Mastered by Lee Buddle
Perth, Western Australia