Sage Pbbbt & Erin K Taylor MPavilion
A beautiful, atmospheric live recording of an improvised set performed at Melbourne’s outdoor MPavilion venue in February 2018. Sage Pbbbt, extra-normal vocalist extraordinaire, had only just moved over from Perth and this collaboration with ridiculously talented Victorian percussionist, electro-acoustic musician and sound artist Erin K Taylor was the first time the two had met. The pair allow for plenty of space as they interact with each other and the environmental sounds (birdsong in particular) that weave a consistent thread through the recording. Transformative and transportive are the operative words here, along with ideas of ritual performance that are important to both their solo practices...
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David Palliser Soot
David Palliser’s second release on Frustration Jazz begins with three courses of freely improvised alto sax abstraction, shadowed by harmony, followed by a fourth extended piece that adds other instrumentation and spontaneous looping to the mix. The appropriately titled opening track Hinges comes out swinging in unconventional ways, non-idiomatic but hinting at some formative free jazz listening experiences... The longer track Geology Forever, recorded live in 2017 at the belated launch of his Lame & Free album (also on Frustration Jazz), begins with the solo sax once more but it’s not long before David’s inspired use of the loop pedal comes into play along with clarinet, percussion, ukulele and even vocals, creating shifting layers of sound with which he interacts as if they’re other players in the space... All of it flows naturally together, extending his music into the realm of idiosyncratic, inventive free folk.
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Also, released mid-year:
Bad Magic Bad Magic II
A set of mostly miniature instrumentals for lo-fi synth and occasional guitar, following on from Bad Magic's self-titled debut released on Frustration Jazz late in 2016. Eleven tracks, recorded in 2017, repeating melodies that are sometimes sparingly layered with other elements and often quite beautiful in their own uncanny way... Not songs in a conventional sense but there is a kind of abstract narrative sense at play I think... Throughout there are touches of folk, classical, German kosmische, electronic, film and video game music all blended into something that still manages to be very minimalistic – simple in the best possible way. It sounds, to these ears at least, both uniquely personal and gently enchanting, as if it’s of this world but at the same time otherworldly.
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HARAAM All Four Horizons
Harsh-ambient walls of noise and a fictional(?) narrative about niche-market capitalism taken to an (il)logical extreme in which the target consumer is the anti-capitalist extremist. Welcome to the world of HARAAM, one where opposites don’t just attract but depend on one another for their continued existence... All Four Horizons begins in nightmare territory, feeling a bit like plunging into the middle of a violent, surging ocean storm. The only reprieve from that intensity comes with the title track, a moodier distant-sounding piece where a mechanical rhythm floats through an indeterminate mist... For all the severity there’s also a warmth to these sounds... and taken as a whole the album has a psychedelic quality that fans of Yellow Swans (or even Haare) might appreciate. Nekrasov, Lucas Darklord and Vomir have all occupied HARAAM’s ears too I’m told....
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