Posts Tagged ‘Melbourne’

HARRISON STORM – ” Broken Feather “

Posted: December 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Harrison Storm is a 23 year old singer/songwriter based in Melbourne. Harrison Storm gave Melbourne Unplugged a great acoustic performance of his original song ‘Broken Feather’.

This was recorded in the grounds at Abbotsford convent, which lent its warm and historical feel to the vibe of the video.

His much anticipated debut EP ‘Sense Of Home’ was noted as “Stunning” when released in April 2015. It was recorded with producer Hayden Calnin and mastered at Studios 301 by Andrew Edgson (Vance Joy, Matt Corby, Angus Stone).
The first single ‘Be Yourself’ has already received over 500,000 plays on Sound Cloud, airtime on Triple J and Triple R along with highly praised live performances on ABC radio Australia. It also gained airplay overseas on US radio KCRW after spending a number of weeks in the Hype Machine top 50 most blogged songs.
Harrison has gained invaluable experience playing at venues across Melbourne such as The Toff In Town, The Evelyn Hotel, Howler, The Workers Club, Gershwin Room and The Shebeen whilst sharing the stage with acts such as Husky, Kagu, Daniel Champagne and Woodlock. For all those people asking about a physical copy of the EP, they’re available through my band camp site: https://harrisonstorm.bandcamp.com/

HARRISON STORM – ” Sense Of Home “

Posted: December 21, 2015 in MUSIC
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Produced and Mixed by Hayden Calnin, Justin Lewis playing some guitar, Ruby Whiting on backing vocals.

Harrison Storm singer/songwriter based in Melbourne, Australia.

Harrison Storm is a 22 year old singer/songwriter based in Melbourne.
Harrison is greatly influenced by hischildhood, where he grew up by the beautiful beaches of the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. Exposed to music from a young age through his mother’s guitar playing and father’s poetry, Harrison began creating his own music inspired by his parents’ record collection.

Four great songs that deeply speak to the heart and soul. A very smooth combination of voice and music.

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TOTALLY MILD – ” Downtime “

Posted: December 19, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Totally Mild’s “Down Time” is the record Melbourne’s music community had to have. As the dole wave revolution slowly yet surely turns into a distant tuneless memory, Totally Mild release a melancholic album masked by the sweet vocals of Liz Mitchell.

Ears are pricked early in the record on ‘When I’m Tired’. It is a 100-second pop masterpiece with a catchy hook and lovely vocal harmonies that simply has to be heard. Penultimate track ‘Always Around’ is a cute number which highlights Mitchell’s aural acrobatics. It’s short, it’s sweet, and it’s my favourite Australian album of 2015.

Sparse, liquid-like arrangements drenched in reverb and Elizabeth Mitchell’s angelic falsetto are the signature elements making up this excellent debut from Melbourne’s Totally Mild.

It’s as if Best Coast, Camera Obscura and Surfer Blood all broke up with their partners and made an album together. The result is hauntingly beautiful, mysteriously seductive and entirely fascinating. Down Time is unashamedly woeful at points. Mostly the songs presented here are introspective, hopeful-yet-heartbroken ballads sprinkled with Zach Schneider’s melody-complementing guitar and some of the most considered and tasteful drums and percussion heard in recent years. Down Time is slow, steady, contemplative and beautiful.

All songs written and recorded by Elizabeth Mitchell with Lehmann B. Smith: Bass (1, 3, 6), Vocals (8) and Guitar (5) Zachary Schneider: Drums (3, 6) and Yuko Kono: Recorder

JAALA – ” Hard Hold “

Posted: December 17, 2015 in MUSIC
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Creating a recent buzz with the release of singles ‘Hard Hold’ and ‘Salt Shaker’ the four piece fronted by vocalist/ guitarist/ songwriter Cosima Jaala (Manglewurzel) are wasting no time pumping out their debut full length also titled “Hard Hold”. experimental bedroom punk or humble and enthusiastic whinge

The outcome of a single week writing and recording, this record was produced and engineered by the band’s good friend Paul Bender (Hiatus Kaiyote) it was tracked live with limited overdubbing keeping as close as possible to the live energy of the songs as they were first written and performed. Manic, genre pushing and incredibly endearing – this is a local record that’ll shape the Aussie music landscape, Jaala is Cosima (vox/guitar), Maria Moles (Drums), Nic Lam (guitar) Loretta Wilde (bass)

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DICK DIVER – ” Year In Pictures “

Posted: December 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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Chapter Music’s website refers to the band Dick Diver as “Melbourne deep pop thinkers”, and it seems like such a perfect description. Their grasp on guitar-based indie-pop music is clearly deep; they often recall New Zealand’s Dunedin scene and the Go-Betweens and other melodic-guitar-pop bands of the past. That’s a starting place, but they keep going directions you don’t expect, from the sax solos to faux ‘60s rave-ups to crashing anthemic choruses to soft-rock moods to quiet grooves that unfold and then disappear. The “thinkers” word is incredibly important too – when I think of their approach to lyrics as “smart”, what I mean is that they alternate among being inscrutable, wry, emotional, biting, strange, straightforward and poetic. One song, “Waste the Alphabet”, was written with the help of an actual poet. So you know, that means they’re smart.

COURTNEY BARNETT – ” Redondo Beach ” Patti Smith’s Horses Cover

Posted: November 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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To celebrate 40 years since the release of Patti Smith’s seminal album HORSES Milk! Records in partnership with Melbourne Festival performed two tribute shows at the Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday the 18th of October 2015. Courtney’s and her band performed a cover of Patti Smith‘s ‘Redondo Beach.’ Now, Barnett’s own label Milk! Records have released footage from the evening, including a full performance of ‘Redondo Beach’.

The performance took place at a special tribute concert held by Barnett to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Patti Smith’s debut album ‘Horses.’ Barnett played ‘Horses’ in full and was joined by Jen Cloher, Magic Dirt’s Adalita and The Drones’ Gareth Liddiard for the one-off show. Courtney Barnett released her debut album ‘Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit’ in March. she explained how the LP reflected the last year of her life.

“The album is a general overview of essentially a year of emotions – 12 months of fucking every day day, up, down, up, down. I dunno what a normal person has, but everyday I had a midlife crisis.”

Courtney Barnett and her band play their biggest UK headline show to date at London’s Forum on November 25th with gigs in Wolverhampton, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Bristol also confirmed.
For more on Milk! Records http://www.milkrecords.com.au

Directed by Joshua Aylett @ Tourist
Camera Operators: Alex Cardy, David Rusanow, Maximillian Mein
Live Mix Tim Symonds for ABC Radio National ‘The Live Set’.
Post Mix Matthew Neighbour

Performed by Courtney Barnett
Guitar – Dan Luscombe
Drums – Jen Sholakis
Bass – Ben Bourke
Keys – Stevie Hesketh

LISA SALVO – ” I Could Have Been A Castle “

Posted: November 19, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Lisa Salvo describes her music as “folk-inspired pop music with engaging instrumentation and thoughtful songwriting”, which is a pretty good approximation of what listeners venturing into the sunny sounds that is her debut LP, I Could Have Been A Castle, can expect.

Meticulously crafted dreamy folk record full of sonic details, smart harmonic twists and lyrical turns – but remaining intimate in almost every moment.

The playful interaction between Salvo’s delicate, ethereal voice and her catchy, scintillating songwriting drive the record and keep you hanging on her every last, carefully considered word. One amendment: the instrumentation and arrangements aren’t only “engaging”, they’re a lot of fun too.

HOLY HOLY – ” Sentimental And Monday “

Posted: November 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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“Sentimental & Monday” is the brand new single from Holy Holy’s forthcoming album “When The Storms Would Come” Carroll, from Brisbane, and Melbournian guitarist/composer Oscar Dawson initially crossed paths as volunteer English teachers in Southeast Asia. They reconnected in 2011 while both again leading transient lives in Europe. Carroll, an acclaimed singer/songwriter, was living in Stockholm. Dawson had transplanted to Berlin with his then band Dukes Of Windsor. When Dawson traveled to Sweden, Carroll asked him to assist with some songs. They ended up with a “suite of demos”. The pair continued collaborating back in Australia. “At that stage we weren’t even really sure what the project was going to be,” Carroll admits. “We were just feeling our way through it.” Regardless, the duo began penning darker, more intense material. The newly anointed HOLY HOLY issued the psychedelic, if foreboding, Impossible Like You as their first single,

In 2014 the “project” morphed into a full live band, enlisting drummer Ryan Strathie (ex-Hungry Kids Of Hungary) and bassist Graham Ritchie (Airling’s collaborator). Their reclusive producer, Matt Redlich (Ball Park Music, Emma Louise, The Trouble With Templeton), also joins them as a “special guest”, hiding behind a Prophet-08 synth. “He’s a bit like our Nigel Godrich kinda character,” Dawson quips.

HOLY HOLY’s “music tragics” bonded over Neil Young (and Crazy Horse), Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits, as well as contemporary acts like Midlake, Band Of Horses and Grizzly Bear. And these myriad influences have fed into When The Storms Would Come. Indeed, though HOLY HOLY cherish “old, classic songwriting”, that nostalgia is juxtaposed with a modern aesthetic. In the studio the band recorded live onto Redlich’s two-inch tape, configured to 16-track. “You get this really warm, saturated colour,” Dawson enthuses. However, eschewing rigid traditionalism, HOLY HOLY occasionally utilised digital post-production. Redlich encouraged them to follow their instincts in determining the best approach, song by song. “He’ll be ballsy with his decisions,” Dawson explains. “He will make the decision in the moment as to what the sound is supposed to be… It makes the recording a whole lot more exciting because, as you’re recording, you’re hearing it as it’s gonna sound.” As such, When The Storms Would Come – led by the jagged single History – sounds “natural”. Dawson holds that HOLY HOLY’s unique sound has evolved into something that’s amplified, or “weighty” – their sonorous, sublime melodies augmented by “stronger, more powerful guitars and bigger vocals” and rhythmically-dense drumming.

SMILE – ” Boundless Plains To Share “

Posted: October 4, 2015 in MUSIC
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Four piece musical family from Melbourne Australia, SMILE are the result of two years of monday night coconut slabs. Delicious! SMILE sophomore LP released earlier this year on SMOOCH RECORDS.

There’s an underlying political thunder rumbling through the clear skies. Quoting the Australian anthem the new track from the Melbourne band comes as a hint  towards their native country’s response to the refugee crisis with the aptly-titled “Boundless Plains To Share”.

Twangs that are so ’90s they could have been plucked from under the nails of Liz Phair initiate the song, whilst steady percussion and guitar layers follow in the most gorgeously melodic of fashions. with textured vocals , unfolding chant-like as though the lyrics could be as easily be sung by 10,000 people as they could be by five.

There are moments of dynamic, fire fuelling excitement and endless momentum, and it’s hard to avoid being engulfed entirely. Unsurprising when you think about it, Smile are a seriously good band.

“Boundless Plains To Share” features on the band’s forthcoming second album, Rhythm Method.

The WHITE BLEACHERS – ” New Age “

Posted: September 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Australian Garage rockers White Bleaches have just dropped their new single ‘New Age’ and it’s a fuzzy psych rock pearler. Ragged whirling guitar, chugging drum lines and reverb filled vocals these guys are the epitome of what’s so great about local Aussie psych right now.

Recorded by Stu Mackenzie in an old shipping container on a farm out the back of Winchelsea, ‘New Age’ sees the guys straddle the line of producing new forward thinking dream psych rock while still paying homage to their garage roots.

To celebrate the release of the single, the band will be playing a new shows around Melbourne, Australia in the coming weeks as well as a slot at Lawsfest Festival in November.

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