MUSIC TO OUR EARS: MELBOURNE MUSIC WEEK RETURNS Returning 3-12 December, 2021

July 24, 2021

dreadful sorry clemency

July 24, 2021

Incredible Calgary Singer Songwriter Jennie Harluk Releases Stunning Single

July 24, 2021

Multi-Platinum R3HAB and Gabry Ponte Paint A Mysterious Character in New Single...

July 23, 2021

Sevenn Flexes an Underground-Influenced New Style With Four-Track “Hybrid Techno” EP. Out...

July 23, 2021

Pekoe Cat Premiere

July 23, 2021

Cassie Dasilva

July 23, 2021

Psychedelic pop duo Wyndow (Lavinia Blackwall & Laura J Martin) announce debut...

July 23, 2021

PATRICK WATSON Unveils new video for ‘Can’t Stop Staring At The Sun’...

July 23, 2021

THE LINDA LINDAS SHARE NEW TRACK “OH!”

July 22, 2021

LUKE HEMMINGS REVEALS LATEST OFFERING ‘MOTION’ LIFTED FROM DEBUT ALBUM ‘WHEN FACING...

July 22, 2021

HOMESHAKE Shares new single & video ‘Passenger Seat’ New album Under The...

July 22, 2021

SEMANTICS SIGN TO SIDEONEDUMMY RECORDS + RELEASE NEW SINGLE “SLEEP AT NIGHT”...

July 22, 2021

DJ Seinfeld shares new single ‘These Things Will Come To Be’

July 22, 2021

JOY ORBISON Announces still slipping vol. 1 mixtape His first-ever long from...

July 22, 2021

Oscar Jerome Teams Up With South East-London DJ & Sonic Experimenter Ben...

July 21, 2021

The sound of Paul McCartney chewing celery! Two-decades on, Super Furry Animals...

July 21, 2021

SOMETHING FOR KATE ECHOLALIA x THE MODERN MEDIEVAL TOURING NATIONALLY – SEPT/OCT...

July 21, 2021

Zadar Sunset Festival Invites You To Dance by Zadar’s Famous Monument to...

July 21, 2021

Loch Hart Music Festival returns in 2021 on a mission to make...

July 21, 2021

Cheshire’s Hide&Seek presents ‘Life In Colour’ with Irresistible Line Up Apollonia, Black...

July 21, 2021

ID&T c.s. and Dutch government have agreed to explore practical feasibility of...

July 21, 2021

COLD HART ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE ALBUM “EVERY DAY IS A DAY”

July 21, 2021

KATZ Releases new single ‘Forward’ with Fractures Only You EP out August...

July 21, 2021

Shame announce “Born in Luton Remixes EP”

July 21, 2021

IDLES RELEASE STUDIO VERSION OF ULTRA MONO’S ‘MODEL VILLAGE’ FEATURING SLOWTHAI

July 21, 2021

The Indiigo Child

July 20, 2021

Larissa Tandy

July 20, 2021

Chutney

July 20, 2021

Girlfriends and Boyfriends ‘Your Touch’ Premiere

July 20, 2021

KeAloha ‘2Lips’ Premiere

July 18, 2021

The Oot N’ Oots Premiere

July 18, 2021

Beach Body ‘Almost Summer’ Premiere

July 18, 2021

AEM ‘Hot In The City’ Premiere

July 18, 2021

Krimsonn Joins the Ranks of NFT-fueled label Purple Fly with New Single...

July 16, 2021

Updog

July 16, 2021

Lovefest Serbia Announces Line-Up (ft. Apollonia, Jamie Jones, Tama Sumo, Call Super...

July 16, 2021

THE LAZY EYES SHARE SECOND RELEASE EP2 NEW SINGLE ‘THE ISLAND’ OUT...

July 16, 2021

Pip Blom share new track ‘It Should Have Been Fun’

July 16, 2021

RISING RNB TRIO YOUR GRANDPARENTS SHARE DEBUT ALBUM ‘THRU MY WINDOW’

July 16, 2021

Yves Tumor releases surprise EP, “The Asymptotical World”

July 16, 2021

ALLDAY JOINS SNØW ON ‘SPILLED MY COFFEE’ FT. RXSEBOY AND JACK CULLEN

July 16, 2021

Brisbane’s Jacinta Lal makes her arrival with debut EP, DIVYA

July 16, 2021

CHVRCHES RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘GOOD GIRLS’ FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM SCREEN VIOLENCE, OUT...

July 16, 2021

ECHO ADORE return with evocative new single ‘SEE RED’

July 16, 2021

PUNK VETERAN & SINGER SONGWRITER JOEY CAPE RELEASES NEW SINGLE “SATURDAY NIGHT...

July 15, 2021

Underoath Share Chaotic New Single ‘Damn Excuses’

July 15, 2021

Butter wouldn’t melt as The Lathums release angel-voiced acapella version of: HOW...

July 15, 2021

Music Interviews


Cassie Dasilva

Cassie Dasilva

The Indiigo Child

The Indiigo Child

Larissa Tandy

Larissa Tandy

What is your name and role within Chutney? Cal Hughes, lead guitarist of Chutney.  Where are you currently based? I live in Burleigh Heads in our hometown of the Gold Coast, QLD.  How did you first start playing music and how did Chutney form? I began playing music from a very young age, playing cello, trumpet and bass guitar within the different classical and jazz bands in primary/ high school - I began teaching myself guitar when I was twelve so I could start making music that better reflected my personal tastes, and formed Chutney with Matt & Pat in mid-2019 after playing in a variety of different bands throughout our early twenties. Matt and I were playing in another local GC band Hot Coffee when Matt began writing a collection of rock songs that didn’t quite fit the electronic/hip-hop sound that Hot Coffee was known for, and I was very keen to form a new group that featured myself on guitar and matched the guitar-driven indie rock that the two of us primarily listened to - we quickly recruited Pat into the mix and began to write Matt’s songs into full band arrangements when we realised we had something special brewing. Andy was added as the final piece of the puzzle on drums and it’s been full speed ahead since then.  What's been happening recently? Working hard on new releases! As consumers of music ourselves we understand how hungry the public is for new music and we have been focussing on finding the line between quality over quantity - providing artistically consistent music while still keeping the momentum rolling from release to release. With this in mind, we are planning for two further releases by the end of the year, as well as maintaining our live performance output with a number of significant headline and support slots over the coming months.   Your latest single 'Talk' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? The sound of this track is what we consider the quintessential “Chutney” sound - riffy, bass-driven verses transitioning into a layered guitar-led breakdown, and culminating with a euphoric and atmospheric chorus with soaring, singalong vocals. In terms of the vocal approach, Matt opted for hip-hop laced verses to match the high energy feel, before kicking into the harmony-laden melodies of the pre-chorus and choruses.  In terms of the lyrical content, Talk is about looking out for your mates when they’re having a hard time - about how everyone has struggles from time to time, and how you are so much more important than you may ever realise. It is a song about mental health and the importance of leaning on those close to you in times of need. We wanted to create an uplifting, euphoric song that tackles sensitive subject matters while providing a positive ending - your mates will always be there for you, and having that talk is the first step to making a positive change. How did you go about writing Talk? The song began with Pat writing the bass riff that is featured heavily throughout the song, and Matt writing out the chordal arrangement and vocal melodies on his acoustic guitar with this riff in mind. The track then fell into my lap to build out the song in terms of forming a fully-fledged band arrangement, and I added a number of guitar elements which took the song from the hip-hoppy Gorillaz feel that the original demo takes on into more of that guitar-driven Chutney sound. Andy then provided the rhythmic energy that makes the track so dynamic, adding in a diverse drum part with multiple feel changes that gives the song its motor.   Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? The track was recorded at Lovestreet Studios on the Gold Coast and produced by our longtime collaborator Scotty French, whom we view as such a valuable contributor to our sound and output to date. Mastering was handled by Matt Bartlem who did an unbelievable job at making the track sound exactly as we wanted it, giving it a huge and raw sound while still maintaining the polish.  How did you approach the recording process? The recording process for this track was quite seamless, which was surprising as we had only written the song about a month prior to recording - generally with our previous recordings we’ve had the song in the tank for months and months before getting into the studio and laying it down, but with Talk we knew from the moment we wrote it that it was going to be the next single. I have been guilty in the past of entering the studio with guitar solos and lead lines not yet written and improvising my parts while the recording tape is running, but for Talk we ensured that all of our parts were written prior to entering the studio, and it made a drastic difference in terms of efficiency and ultimately, quality.  What or who inspired the concept for the music video? The concept for the music video was championed by Andy who took on the role of co-director as well as writer for the clip. The story of Matt waking in an unfamiliar location after a big night out and navigating his way throughout the day is not dissimilar to some of the situations that all four of us in the band have found ourselves in following our many wild nights together, and we wanted to represent our hometown of the Gold Coast with the locations used throughout the clip.  The clip opens with Matt waking up on the beach at sunrise after a big night out, and continues to follow him as he navigates the day without a cent to his name and one goal: get to the gig. Showing that even with a rough start, you can still make a day your own with the right attitude.  Where and when did you film? The video was filmed over the course of one day in May and featured a number of locally-loved GC locations such as Alfred’s Apartment and Seven & One Studios in Mermaid Beach, and Mo’s Desert Clubhouse in Burleigh Heads.  What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the creation of the video? The clip was filmed, directed and edited by Nick Stevens of Fastback Studios and he was incredible in terms of his creativity, professionalism and ease to work with. The bulk of the performing within the clip was placed upon Matt, and as he is naturally very comfortable in front of the camera everything moved along smoothly. We also recruited the services of a number of our friends to take part in the video as extras, and they were all so helpful and generous with their time - we are forever grateful to everyone who contributes their time and energy whenever required.   Please tell us about any upcoming live shows. We just played a headline sold out capacity crowd at Burleigh Bazaar for our single launch last Saturday which was amazing, and have a number of exciting support slots upcoming, including:  Sat 24th July: Nightquarter (Sunshine Coast) supporting Kingswood Thurs 5th August: Wooly Mammoth (Brisbane) supporting Vanilla Gorilla We are also booked for two very exciting festivals; firstly, we are headlining the Brisbane Indie Winter Project at The Zoo on 13th August, and later in the year we are very excited to be playing as a part of the Gold Coast’s Springtime Festival alongside heavy hitters such as Ball Park Music, Ruel, Hermitude and Sycco in September.  Who are you listening to at the moment? I personally have been listening at length to Puma Blue’s ‘A Late Night Special’ live album, Arlo Parks and Big Red Machine’s new releases, and local Aussie’s Eliza & The Delusionals and Eluera.  What do you like to do away from music? I love to watch and play sport with my mates, drink beers and enjoy the Gold Coast sunshine.  What's planned for the remainder of 2021? We will be playing a number of exciting support shows as previously mentioned, as well as getting our first taste of big festival slots and putting together a few more big headline shows to compliment our upcoming two releases which we’ve scheduled to drop before the end of the year.  Favourite food and place to hangout? I’m a sucker for a steak sandwich and schooner at my local Burleigh Hotel or Nobby’s Beach Surf Club, and the yakitori and ramen at Iku in Burleigh is unbeatable.  Spotify Instagram Facebook

Chutney

Updog

Updog

Head Of Clouds

Head Of Clouds

Where are you currently based? We are based out of Nova Scotia, Canada’s Ocean Playground. How did you first start playing music? Music and entertaining was something I enjoyed since I was a young kid. I picked up the guitar at age 12 when a couple of my good friends started learning guitar and bass while my best friend has been playing drums since he was five. Shortly after that we started a band writing our own material and covering songs from rock n’ roll heavyweights like Rush, Guns N’ Roses and Motley Crue. What's been happening recently? A few weeks back we released our final single “Homesick” before the album release. This song features Christopher Thorn of Blind Melon and has been getting great reception from radio, and our loyal and new fans. We have also been busy planning and prepping for the album release. This includes rehearsals, social media connection, booking gigs, and lots of press. We recently had our song, “Overtime” off our new album play on the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs during a montage going into OT during game 4 where the Montreal Canadiens (our favourite team) won the game. After a long hiatus where entertainment wasn’t allowed because of the pandemic we are thrilled to be able to start playing shows again in support of our new album. Your new album 'No Fools No Fun' will be out on July 9, what influenced the sound and songwriting? I had an interviewer a few weeks back ask a similar question. He said very animated, “Where did you come up with this sound?!” Then began to describe what he was hearing to me in a perfect way. The interviewer at the time noticed the 60s Brit Rock vocal stylings combine with the 70s and 80s rock n’ roll attitude that was blended with a 90s image and 90’s/2000’s pop/rock sound. That was all mixed in with some doo-wop style vocals and harmonies that could work for a country band. This can be called, “Grease Coast Rock N’ Roll” which is our signature genre that is easiest describe as “Southern Power Pop Rock.” How did you go about writing the album? The album is all based on experiences I’ve had in my twenties. A huge growing decade where in the second half I found out who I really was and why the places I’ve been were so instrumental (pun intended) to the journey and my growth as a person. Songs like “Homesick'' highlight my life on the road as a musician and sheet metal worker while “Sympathy Card” and “Read Between The Lines” are songs that are a “look in the mirror” kind of tracks; take ownership of your wrong-doings and don’t put blame on anyone but yourself. It’s an album of hard work, perseverance and to make sure you have fun in the meantime while doing all of this. Where and when did you record/produce the album, and who with? We recorded the album at Chalet Studio in Uxbridge, Ontario. A beautiful, secluded spot in the country that included our lodging for the duration of tracking. We began recording in the spring of 2019 where we tracked half the album then and the other half in fall of 2019. The album was produced by Brian Moncar (Alice Cooper, Our Lady Peace) and had guest producer John Angus MacDonald (The Trews) who produced ”Sympathy Card.” How did you approach the recording process? We wanted to create an album that best represented the energy we bring at our live shows so we did the album live off the floor with everyone tracking together at the same time. The vocals were overdubbed afterwards so there wasn’t any bleed into the tracks. This is definitely the way we’ll be recording for the rest of our career because it is the most genuine representation of who and what we are as a band.  What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the creation of the album? The most challenging thing was holding off on releasing the album. We had initial release plans of a Spring 2020 release, but the pandemic put that to a screeching halt so we had to go back to the drawing board. We worked hard to stay creative to not only to keep momentum but build our fanbase while not being able to perform live. We had the intention to release the album to go hand in hand with our live show so naturally that meant touring the album. With the world opening back up and our new release date of July 9th it seems that our patience will be worth the wait. The most rewarding part about it all was having a dream come into fruition. We collaborated with a slew of fantastic industry professionals on this album and the end product is something we can be proud of forever. Who are you listening to at the moment? The latest Foo Fighters album, “Medicine at Midnight” has been on heavy rotation for me for the last few months. They’re such an inspirational band. The good guys in rock n’ roll who we strive to be like. Good role models, amazing vibe and fantastic music. What do you like to do away from music? Honestly music consumes my brain a good 90% of the time. When I’m not doing music, I like to create posters/graphic work (that usually is for the band or my own solo work...whoops, haha.) I love to adventure and see what nature has to offer. Living in Nova Scotia we have such a beautiful landscape where hiking, road trips, and one-off breweries pop up from town to town. Adventuring would be my favourite pass-time besides music. What's planned for the remainder of 2021? The remainder of our year consists of touring Canada in support of the album release. We’ll be doing multiple dates in the Maritimes all summer before heading to Ontario in September for gigs and some unfinished business. This trip will also include planning for album number three and a live album in between the two studio releases.  Favourite food and place to hangout? I just moved to a place called Stellarton in Pictou County and coincidentally down the road from my house is a spot called, “Andre’s Pizza.” I obviously was intrigued because the spot had my name which isn’t a popular one in the area so the first day here I stopped in. It turns out the restaurant is a music themed place that has a jukebox from Elvis’ Graceland collection, some of my favourite records displayed on the wall autographed and the best pizza you can sink your teeth into. I’ve been back there more than a handful of times and know it’s going to be another home for me, haha. On the other side of things about 10 minutes in the opposite direction is the studio we rehearse at called, “Sea Level Sound.” The band has been going here since 2016. It inspired a lot of songs from the album; “The Swedish Motel” and “Labels” in particular. The owner, Gord Stensrud is a great friend of ours and was also a guest on the “Labels.” Twitter: @APandTheGiants Facebook: /andrepettipasandthegiants Instagram: @apandthegiants Website: www.andrepettipasandthegiants.com

Andre Pettipas and The Giants

OLY SHERMAN releases highly anticipated album LAND OF ALL PRETEND Sydney songwriter touring through into August!

Oly Sherman

Tanya George

Tanya George

Where are you currently based? I am usually in between LA and Sydney but with the travel restrictions I am based in Sydney, Australia for the time being  How did you first start playing music? I’ve always loved to sing! I remember my first time singing in front of my family was when I was 8 years old at my sisters birthday party  What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been? When Covid really started to get serious I was in LA, and had to rush home to make it in time just before the lockdown. I was meant to be back in LA after just a few weeks but haven’t been back for over a year and a half now. At first it was really hard to adjust to the shift in environment. Being in LA it is really non-stop, and being home especially with lockdown it was super slow.  A lot of my projects were pushed back because everything planned in LA couldn’t go through, (shooting visuals etc). So I really took the time to meet with the creatives here in Sydney and find people I enjoy working with. I learned a lot more about engineering my own vocals, and about directing. The good thing is that with technology I am still able to work closely with my team in LA. Its been really fun diving into different parts of the industry that ultimately have helped me grow into a better artist!  Your new single 'Trap House' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? I love telling stories, and really finding melodies that carry the emotion of the lyrics I am singing to it. That is always my priority!  As for the inspiration behind the story, being in this industry can be very tricky. Theres a lot of smokey mirrors and blurred lines. I was offered a deal whilst in LA that seemed amazing but something didn’t feel right. I was back home in Sydney when I had to make a decision. As I was reflecting on my journey so far, the inspiration just hit. All those feelings of fear, chaos and belief started to write the song for me. The lyrics reminded me to trust myself. So I said no.  Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? The song was just living in my notebook, until I was in LA again a few months later. I was singing at a live music venue when I caught the attention of My guy Mars. He mentioned that he wanted to work with me. So we went to his studio and I showed him the song I had written called “Trap house”. He instantly loved it & agreed to produce the record for me.  How did you approach the recording/production process? Being in the studio with mars was really mind blowing. Watching him in his element just create with so much passion and ease was insane. He had the first demo done within an hour session. I had a few elements I still wanted to add so we had another session working together and finalising the production. Once that was done we went to Sound Factory Studios, and I worked with Austen Lux chandler on the vocal production. He was great to work with and really helped to get the best vocal performance & he created some awesome harmonies too!  How did the concept for the music video come about? While searching for someone in Sydney to direct the music video, I was so lucky to come across Connor O Connor. She is a genius. From the first time meeting her I knew she was the right woman for the job. We had a few conversations about the meaning behind the song & the story. We worked very closely throughout the entire process but it was really important to me that she had creative freedom. She had created the concept, and the creative direction for every scene.  Where did you film and who did you work with? We filmed the video at D1 Studios in Marrickville, Sydney.  Connor O’ Connor (Director) put together the entire team / crew.  What did you find most rewarding and challenging whilst creating the film clip? It was very challenging organising the shoot with the covid 19 rules changing weekly. We wanted to make sure everyone was safe & that we followed all the rules correctly.  The most rewarding part was being able to play the video to my family.  Who are you listening to at the moment? I am always listening to different music, I can never narrow it down to one artist haha.  What do you like to do away from music? I love hanging out with my family !  What's planned for 2021? My plan is to just keep releasing music, keep making music ! Favourite food and place to hangout? My families restaurant Villaggio for both!  ( I promise my dad didn’t make me say that) haha  https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjazzyk https://www.facebook.com/jazzykofficial/ https://www.youtube.com/user/jasminekmusiic/videos https://www.instagram.com/itsjazzyk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZAWrNHg1k

Jazzy K

BAN MICAH

BAN MICAH

Written collectively as King Brown  Tell us a bit about the genesis of this EP - when did writing begin and how do you think it stacks up in terms of the band's song writing now you can look at it as a full record? Out in the Desert is a showcase of our collective songwriting spanning from our beginnings up to the time of release. The opening track Moto has been with the band for a long time, whereas tracks like Matter of Time and Oyzo were written specifically for the EP.  The EP is our musical offering showcasing the band’s creative range both of songwriting and our sonic palette. The songs each have their own distinctive sounds but still meld together throughout the record to form the King Brown sound. Are there any particular songs on there that still stand out as favourites for you (and why)? Moto stands out for its sheer energy and power. The song has been with us a long time but still is a favourite for both us and for audiences when we play it. It tends to charge the crowd up when we let it loose live. That feeling is also heavily present throughout the song thematically too, hitting the open road and letting it rip.  Way Down also stands out, it’s been really popular and is super fun to perform. The song was waiting in the wings for a long time, not quite pieced together. It is amazing seeing it released and people enjoying it. We were able to fill in the pieces and put a bow on it with the extra time that the first lock down gave us.  How has the last year been for the band; how crucial has music been for you during the weirdness of 2020? Our music has given us a sense of direction and purpose during COVID. While it’s been tough for the music scene we used that time to work on getting this record together. The shows we have been able to play were amazing because you really get to appreciate them and not take them for granted. It’s also been good in a sense for the whole WA scene, people didn’t have the option to see east coast acts so they discovered all these great local bands, it’s grown the whole scene. Can you tell us a bit about the band's current creative and sonic influences? How have they changed? We each bring our different musical influences with us to King Brown. At the start our songs had a more surfy vibe which has now progressed to show more of a rock and blues influence. The different influences show in each of our instruments, creating our unique sound. Our musical influences within the band range from acts like Oasis, CCR, Skegss, and Allah-Las, however the influences that reflect through to our music would be Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, ...etc. What did you learn about yourselves as musicians during the writing and recording of this EP? We learnt that we have the ability and skills to get a lot of things done ourselves. Ben has put in a lot of time and effort recording the EP, without that we probably wouldn’t have been able to get it done. Shaun has been instrumental in creating all of the artistic elements and graphic design for the band, and also filming and editing our music video for Way Down. We have also learnt that as a band we can rely on each other to bring whatever is needed for our music. One of us can bring in a song or an idea and everyone adds their piece to make a unique collective creation.  In terms of live performing, what's exciting you the most about eventually being able to tour a record like this? We are really excited about getting the chance to play our new music that people have heard and become familiar with. It makes it that bit more special when you perform a song and the crowd engages with it so much more because they know it.  It’s a great thing when people react to us playing a certain song or shouting out requests for songs. It is the payoff of a lot of our time and effort spent making this EP. What's coming up for King Brown for the rest of the year, that's getting you pumped? Our next main goal is to release an album. We are excited to get stuck in to challenging ourselves to write and record a lot of new material for people to experience. Each one of us will bring our own ideas to the group, and from that a King Brown album will be made. That is a pretty amazing concept.

King Brown

Teulu

Teulu

JODi

JODi

Rashid Ajami

Rashid Ajami

SRUJANIKA

SRUJANIKA

Health Club

Health Club

Rat City

Rat City

Joe Terror & Hollie Joyce

Joe Terror & Hollie Joyce

FFLORA

FFLORA

LUCY PARLE Wins Teen category award at International Songwriting Competition Signs recording deal with Double Drummer New single 'Back Up' out now!

Lucy Parle

Dive Index

Dive Index

Harkness Releases ‘The Occasion’

McDermott & North

McDermott & North

PERRY P

PERRY P

Corduroy Spaceship reveals striking sophomore EP, Life In Hollywood

CORDUROY SPACESHIP

Where are you currently based? I'm currently based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. I'm in the city a lot too for uni and gigs so it's a lot of back and forth between where I live and Sydney city.  How did you first start playing music? I come from a very musical household so music was always around as I was growing up. My Dad is a music teacher and my Mum is a music therapist so it was kind of inevitable that I would end up in music as well! The first instrument I had proper lessons on was the violin. I played violin for about 6 or 7 years and I owe so much of who I am as a musician to those really formative years of playing violin. My teacher taught me how to listen and how to feel music and gave me all the foundations I needed to continue music through songwriting and other instruments. I picked up some other instruments through primary school and highschool like I played the flute for a while and had keyboard and singing lessons. One day I picked up my Dad's bass guitar and pretty much instantly fell in love with it and have been playing bass ever since. Guitar is probably my main songwriting instrument, I wouldn't say I'm Jimmi Hendrix or anything but I do have my favourite chord shapes and can hold a rhythm.  What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been? Recently lifes been pretty hectic with studying and teaching and gigging and writing. I keep pretty busy but I'm really grateful that all the things I'm busy with are things that I enjoy. Covid last year definitely had me in a bit of a musical slump. I was feeling a lot of pressure from social media and other people in the industry to use lockdown and isolation as a time to create and pump out content and I think all of that pressure ultimately turned me away from music for a bit. I also felt like I needed to give myself permission to not have to be productive for once and just get through the lockdowns as best as I could. I feel refreshed and re-inspired this year as things are gradually getting back to normal and I'm excited to keep collaborating, gigging, writing and learning as much as I can about music.  Your new single 'Good Mood' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? For this release I really wanted to share another side of my music with people. My last EP which was recorded in Nashville before Covid was very acoustic, down tempo sort of stuff which is definitely a big part of my songwriting catalogue, but for this track I wanted to share the more funky, upbeat side of myself as an artist. I was influenced by a lot of R&B artists for this track like Erykah Badu, ELIZA, H.E.R, Cleo Sol and Ravyn Lenae. In terms of the songwriting, a big part of writing this track was about letting go of having to have these really profound and metaphorical and I guess complex lyrics and instead just marinating on the simple idea of being in a good mood. At first I wasn't sure about how repetitive the chorus is as I've never written a chorus with so few words before, but I gradually started to appreciate the simplicity of it and how it gave more space for the instrumentation to really drive the vibe of the track.   How did you go about writing Good Mood? Like almost all of my songs, Good Mood started out with just me and my guitar. The chords were the first thing that I got excited about and then pretty quickly I'd written the chorus and the melody for the verse. I actually didn't think about the song too seriously or as my next release until I was on a family holiday and was going through all my voice memos and I got really excited when I was listening to Good Mood and pretty much decided then and there that it would be my next single. I wrote the rest of the lyrics for the verse and the bridge as soon as I got home and then I actually stumbled on the key change by accident and decided to stick with it!   What does Good Mood mean to you? Good Mood is all about celebrating those moments where you forget your troubles, you forget why you were crying in the first place and you actually just enjoy the moment and enjoy your life. It's definitely not a song to say that you have to be in a good mood all of the time because firstly that's just not realistic and secondly there isn't really a good mood without a bad mood. It's more about embracing the ups and downs and actually treausing those good moods to help you get through the bad ones. The song definitely helps me to remind myself that I do have good days, days so good that I write a song about it! It really helps me to stay optimistic and hopeful that the good days will always be around the corner.  Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? The bulk of Good Mood was made in my humble bedroom studio. I also worked with Mel Ertler on keys and Ryan Park on lead guitar at the studios at the Con. We had a couple of sessions where we recorded lots of ideas and collaborated on some different parts to develop the track a bit more. I started recording and producing it around September of last year and wanted to release it in November or December but then life happened and the Northern Beaches went into lockdown and the track lost a lot of momentum. Thankfully my friend Chelsea Warner helped me revive it by producing some drum tracks for it which really brought it to life. She is an absolute legend, I can not recommend her enough for any production needs. My Dad also came into the Con studios one day and was my engineer for recording the lead vocals which was also helpful for reigniting my motivation for releasing the song. My partner Max mixed the track from his home studio. It was so great to work with him because I could be as fussy as I wanted! And he is also very talented at mixing so it was a pleasure. The final step was sending the track off to Studios 301 to be mastered and Harvey O'Sullivan did a really great job of it.  How did you approach the recording process? The recording process for this track was very different to the recording process of my last EP. Hypothesis for Happiness was all recorded in one day at a studio in Nashville with session musicians. That process was great and such an awesome learning experience but for this release I wanted to try the process of recording and producing over time and in different environments. It was great in terms of having lots of creative space to experiment and listen and re-experiment. It was also great for collaborating with different people in different spaces. I will say though, self producing a project without any concrete deadlines is really hard for keeping up motivation and momentum for the project, but we got there in the end!  What programs/equipment did you use? Logic Pro X is my musical home. I've tried many times swapping over to Ableton or Pro Tools but every time without fail I end up back on Logic! I think because I grew up playing Garage Band on the iPad every day as a kid, Logic feels really familiar and kind of connects me to my own artistic development over the course of my life. I played my Mini Maton and my red Fender Squire guitars on the track as well as my Lakland Skyline bass. Mel and I used Komplete Kontrol sounds by Native Instruments on the midi keys and Ryan used Guitar Rig by Native Instruments for his guitar tracks.  Please tell us about you experience with studying music: I'm studying Contemporary Music Practice at the Conservatorium of Music in Sydney. There are some huge pros to studying music, meeting like minded people is definitely the main thing that I have enjoyed. Not only do those people become friends but they become collaborators and colleagues. Another pro is having structure and deadlines. I think there's a lot of music that I've made for uni over the past three years that wouldn't have been made otherwise. The structure and deadlines really help to get songs finished. Studying music isn't always easy though. Just like with every degree, there are going to be subjects that you just have to get through or subjects that are vastly different from how you expected them to be. Another challenge is the constant question of what does this get me? People always ask me what job will this degree get me and it's a really difficult one to answer. I guess we all chose to study music because we love it, not because we want a regular, well-paying job. If you want a regular well-paying job, music probably isn't the most direct path to that. So I guess my answer to that question of what does this get me is hopefully a life full of music and various opportunities opening up, and uni is just a launchpad to get us started.  What new music/projects do you have on the way? I'm working on a concept EP at the moment. I won't give away too much but it explores a lot of themes about living with creativity and how to live a satisfied life as a creative person. I'm also starting to recruit some female musicians to form a bit of a girl band to play some of my original music. Gender equality in the music industry is something that I care deeply about and I always want to be a driving positive force for women to have the same opportunities and experiences available to them as our male counterparts.  Who are you listening to at the moment? I've been listening to a fair bit of Jazz lately as I'm taking a Jazz vocal course at uni. Ella Fitzgerald is my absolute favourite Jazz singer, I have a poster of her and Louis Armstrong on my bedroom wall. In terms of other more modern artists, Eryn Allen Kane is an absolute queen. So is Charlotte Day Wilson, she has such a unique, buttery voice. I'm also very hyped for the new Hiatus Kaiyote album to come out. I've been a huge fan of theirs for many years and I love the tracks they've released already so I'm very excited! On a more mainstream note, I am a little bit obsessed with Silk Sonic (Anderson Paak and Bruno Mars). I just love how they're bringing motown back into the mainstream and exposing a lot of pop music listeners to a new genre.  What do you like to do away from music? I love travelling, not that there's much of that going on at the moment but even just exploring more of the state is something I love to do on uni breaks. I'm really into kickboxing at the moment too. It's a good outlet for any anger or frustrations I have that I can let out on the punching bag so that I can be a polite and nice person for the rest of the day! I am a little bit of a gamer girl too, I love my nintendo switch and my computer games.  What's planned for the remainder of 2021? I've learnt over Covid that the near future is so out of my control. These random Covid breakouts and on again - off again lockdowns make it really hard to plan for the rest of the year which has actually been good practice for me to stay in the moment more and accept that I can't control what the rest of the year looks like. That being said, I would like to release another EP by the end of the year and hopefully develop a new live set up so I can start doing my own original gigs at local venues on the Beaches.  Favourite food and place to hangout? There's a place in Redfern near the University of Sydney where me and some friends always go after our Jazz vocal workshops called Terra Cotta Roasters and they have this burger that has all of my favourite foods on it. Haloumi, hash browns, avocado, fried eggs and tomato relish. That with an oat milk latte is pretty much the ultimate dining experience for me. I also have a huge sweet tooth like I could eat sour patch kids every night if that was healthy!  Stream "Good Mood" here: https://linktr.ee/abbyfullermusic  https://abbyfullermusic.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcqm2v6RZxeP1dlQmQ6Brzg  Instagram: @abbyfulllermusic Facebook: Abby Fuller MUSIC  SoundCloud: Abby Fuller MUSIC

Abby Fuller

Jack Botts

Jack Botts

SWEDISH POP DUO JUBËL RELEASE ‘DUMB’ FROM FORTHCOMING EP; COMBINING PERFECT POP & FEEL-GOOD DANCE

JUBËL

Sterling Press

Sterling Press

Scott Klein

Scott Klein

Off Night

Off Night

Saint Idiot (Tomáš Andel) is a Slovak-Canadian art pop musician, sound designer, and multimedia artist from Edmonton, Canada. His music has been interpreted as a deconstruction of pop; familiar forms rendered in sophisticated sound palettes, set in lush, carefully textured compositions, that are both a little futuristic and a little mossy. Tomáš' inspirations include the multisensory worlds of artists like Björk and Bowie, the continuing legacy of bell hooks, as well as Zen, Deep Listening, ambient music, and flora. “Talk” is the third single from the upcoming album Alternate Utopias from a Nostalgic Future, a record that explores masculinity. Softening the heart with the grainy pastel sounds of nostalgia, “Talk” invites topics we tend to only reach for on certain kinds of days—a sitting-on-the-stairs sort of honesty, the most rewarding labor of love. “It’s a celebration of those life-changing moments—both nostalgic and timeless—where we are really being there with a person without reservation,” Andel says, “listening fully, unpacking emotions, or learning to love and hold one another even through our disagreements.” With a sort of skin tone sound palette, “Talk” is carried by earnest falsetto, guitar, harp, clarinet, and a host of gauzy synthesizers that are underscored throughout by an almost ASMR-like pointillism of intimate sounds. The end of the track features an excerpt from interviews titled “Conversations With Young Men,” a work in progress from documentarian Laura La France. Where are you currently based? I live by the tree in Edmonton. How did you first start playing and writing music? Apparently I had tinkling piano fingers as soon as my wrists reached over the lip of the piano, and I used to cut guitars out of paper as well. I really started as a drummer, though—I played in a fair number of bands in the past—so I’m really coming from the world of rhythm and improvisation. I loved my bands, but my creative ambitions tended to take over them, so eventually I started writing for myself. It’s for the best—I’m probably still a lousy collaborative songwriter. What's been happening recently? I’ve discovered that I can rollerblade to the convenience store to buy all-dressed Ruffles, so now I pretend I’m Chip from “Baskets.” You've got a new album on the way, what influenced the sound and songwriting? I was really obsessed with “soft, human” sounds. I wanted an album that felt like skin, like a caress, something that’d get the oxytocin (the “love hormone”) flowing, ‘cause I wanted to support the potentially challenging lyrics with something both fantastic but also warm, inviting, and nurturing. At first I was obsessed with bells, chimes, wood blocks, and other “earthy” sounds—partly ‘cause I really fell in love with the almost tactile earthiness of Kilchhofer. I raided a whole bunch of antique stores for bells and tines and such. That didn’t make it on the album so much, but it got me thinking about hang drums, kalimbas, and mallet instruments (which did make it), and before I knew it I was painting with orchestral colors. I wanted to marry the sophistication, emotional pull, and rich, grounding character of harps, strings, and clarinets with the abstraction of synthesizers, to get something simultaneously organic and futuristic. My goal with my music is to take a huge range of sounds, especially from the more experimental corners of the music world, and search for where they can intersect and still make sense. This is partly because I just love so many different types of music, and partly ‘cause I figure that I’m bound to find something interesting in these strange combinations. On this album, I was thinking a lot about Björk, Laurie Anderson, Motion Graphics, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and Cosmo Sheldrake, and I’m also a massive fan of noise and ambient music. I guess it’s safe to say I really like music that tells stories and is deeply textural. When will the album be released? September 8th. After “Talk,” there’s two more singles coming on June 30th and August 11th. How did you go about writing the album? I was doing a lot of introspecting and inner work when I started working on Alternate Utopias from a Nostalgic Future. I’ve been really fascinated by masculinity. I wondered why I found it so hard to identify with it for most of my life, why certain toxic tendencies coalesce in certain masculine contexts, and what kind of work men have to do to cause less harm and become happier people. As you might imagine, this is a pretty tremendous topic with a lot of traps and tricky ground, and I really tried to approach it from a radically honest and transparent place, from a pre-political place, and with all fairness to the many different and valid ways to be a man.  I was very poindexter about it and planned it out almost like an essay, with every song unpacking a specific question, problem, or struggle that I’ve had in my own healing—whether that’s my relationship to anger, or possessiveness, or the reluctance to express emotions or ask for help. As rigid as that sounds, it ended up being a really organic and iterative process. It felt like exploration, or discovery. It felt like I solved a lot of my own personal tensions and found even more helpful questions to grapple with in the future, so it was really generative. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with? It was entirely a lockdown record, so I recorded and produced it in my room, but I’ll try to romanticize it a little.  The truth is, my workspace and my bed are less than 2 feet apart, and I’ve had the old “wake up at 3:00am, boot up the computer, and put down a chord progression” routine happen a few times, which is to say that from a certain point of view, it is as intimate a record as it can get.  I’m sure many people who have been creating through the lockdown agree that the boundary between life and art really disappeared in the last year. In the same way a lot of us are used to living in a “50 Chrome tabs open” world, Alternate Utopias from a Nostalgic Future was always only a few steps away from where my life was happening. I sleep in this room, relax in this room, meditate in this room, read in this room, have sex in this room, have deep, honest conversations in this room… Basically, my work on the album was in such proximity to my regular everyday life, that the life-process that is “me” and my life unfolding was fully intertwined with the process of this album coming about. My very good friend and talented piano composer Doug Parth (With Dogs) finessed the orchestral arrangements, and the incredibly spacious and accommodating mix and master were painstakingly carved by Hill Kourkoutis and Kristian Montano, respectively. All three of these people are the kindest, most inspiring mentors you could wish for. I really look up to them and am so thankful that this album passed through the prism of their kindness and creativity. What programs/equipment did you use? I swear by Reaper. I also do a lot of field recording that I then process, so I got a Zoom H5 for that. Otherwise, with the exception of some Omnichord parts, the bulk of it was soft synths. I love the Melda plugin suite to death, and also swear by Obscurium. I’m always on the lookout for “weird” equipment though. I’d die for a deliciously dusty old modular synth like the EML Electrocomp 200. I love instruments that seem to do what they want to do. Please tell us about your motivation for writing about masculinity: When it comes to who I feel myself to be, I’ve always felt like masculinity was an awkward map for the territory. It feels tight and constricting, and like parts are missing, which was sort of my conclusion when I started thinking about it a lot.  Please understand that I’m painting in broad strokes as I answer this question, but I think that “popular” or “traditional” masculinity is often guilty of being very isolating. The “code” doesn’t encourage a lot of open, emotional, vulnerable conversation between men, or even between men and the wider society—cool, rational stoicism seems to be the vogue instead. But really, the emotional and the rational are just two parts of a whole, and my motivation is simply to draw attention to the ways in which men trapped in this restrictive paradigm can restore their whole humanity and be happier for it. I strived to write in a way that put people before politics, and encouraged a holistic kind of masculinity with two very simple goals—healthiness and happiness. You describe the song 'Talk' as an invitation—what do you mean by that? I want to encourage people who have had the faintest brush with the questions I’m exploring on this album to take the time to dig deep, answer those questions as self-honestly as they can, and then share that with other men. Although, this isn’t just for men exclusively—we can all obviously benefit from openness and humility—but perhaps it is for men especially. Or, at least, that’s who I feel I have sufficient grounds to address. This masculinity work is certainly not new—organizations like Next Gen Men here in Canada have been holding masculinity circles and helping youth disentangle themselves from the harmful behaviours boys tend to get socialized into for years. Before I discovered them, Nora Samaran and bell hooks started me on this path. The sea change is already under way. With “Talk” I want to help catalyze other people’s journeys. In this song, I’m saying that it’s OK to be scared—it’s tough to genuinely, voluntarily open yourself in these ways—I get it. I’m saying that I’ve gotten it wrong before too, and I’m not saying I have the answers. I’m just saying that we all have some long overdue questions to pose to ourselves, and to one another. I was no better, and I’m still doing the work. I want people to realize that the work of being a better person never stops, but it certainly starts with honest, candid dialogue. Please tell us about how you combine your music with your own visuals: I don’t have synesthesia, but I do have a very strong personal sense of how sounds “look,” and how visual things “sound,” and it’s something that’s both helped me sound design and compose, as well as create visuals that reflect or amplify the feel of the music. I always loved album art and cool music videos—to me they seem completely inseparable from the experience of an album. I wanted to build a really strong sensory identity for my album, so super early on, I was planning songs in terms of color palettes and moodboards. I think that in the end the sonic profile of each song matches the color palettes and imagery I’m working with when I construct my visualizers, and people have told me that together they create a really clear sense of the tone of my message. How would you describe the genre of your music? I’ve adopted “art pop” as a genre because to me it seems like the most flexible way to say “music that wants to surprise you and break your expectation,” without necessarily pigeonholing myself in the world of “experimental music.” I LOVE experimental music, but I know that a lot of people groan when they hear “experimental,” and in a way it’s also become a sort of loose, diluted term. When people hear “art pop,” I think they know they’ll probably get something mostly straight forward, and so they have an easier time buying in. It’s the free-est genre label for what I like doing. Who are you listening to at the moment? This second it’s Rafael Anton Irrasari’s Solastalgia.  What do you like to do away from music? I love long-distance road cycling, and recently I’ve really gotten into mountain bike trail riding. I’ve also practised as a lay Buddhist for a few years, and I just started digging deep into the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Spiritual exploration is deeply important to me.  I love people, but I also really love solitude and I’m really curious by nature, so it makes sense that I set off on long rides or go get lost in a forest with a field recorder. I like feeling like I’m tapping to some other level, and cycling, spirituality, and nature all bring me to this same infinitely generative place. What's planned for 2021? Well, by the time you read this, I may have been vaccinated here in Edmonton, so without shooting too high, I’m hoping our social lives will get more permissive in the not-too-distant future. I miss patio beers. However, the more realistic answer is more audio and 3D work, and because I’m slightly masochistic, probably the beginnings of the next record. Favourite food and place to hangout? Oh boy. Get this—a four-layer Slovak bread-pastry with plum jam, poppy seed filling, walnut paste, and tart/sweet farmer’s cheese (“tvaroh.”) It is literally the most advanced taste on Earth, and has been studied by Mensa. My favorite place to hang out is anywhere I can get Sapporo lager for cheap enough. Instagram Facebook YouTube

Saint Idiot

SOLSTA unveils progressive house gem ‘TOGETHER’, (featuring BEXX).

Solsta

Where are you currently based? Sydney, Australia How did you first start playing music? My father is a Bass player and Singer so Music has always been in my blood and in the house since I was little What's been happening recently? I have been perfecting my ALIASOUND haha and creating tracks and a whole new image for my new era of Artistry  Your debut self titled EP is out May 14 2021, what influenced the sound and songwriting? Yes so exciting….The sound was influenced by a whole range of musical talent I have been exposed to throughout my life. From Rnb and Funk to Pop and Rock. The lyrics were inspired by my self discovery and evolution in which I like to share. How did you go about writing the music? The very talented Phil Anquetil and I had a brainstorming session in which we discovered a combination of different feels, from Artists for eg: Prince, Pink, Evanescence and Paramore, that influenced me throughout my musical history, to create a whole new style for me as an Artist. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? Phil Anquetil and I worked together in Phil’s own studio. We created this EP in the midst of the restrictions and lockdowns of 2020, which turned the year in to a positive experience. How did you approach the recording/production process? It varied from track to track, some I approached with ideas lyrics and melody already written and some were written from scratch. What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the creation of the EP? A challenge was finding time in Phil’s busy schedule haha…..Rewards was definitely the finished EP, when you see a completed body of work it is very fulfilling. Who are you listening to at the moment? Spotify everything, haha. I really like to keep up to date with new Artists and Music that is coming out. The Kid LAROI and Olivia Rodrigo come to mind as they have been quite ground breaking and have a fresh sound, which I appreciate. I also have a love for Deep House and Techno so usually have a kick a* local or international Dj’s mix or release on the burn. What do you like to do away from music? I love dancing, hanging out with family and friends and going away on holiday. What's planned for the remainder of 2021? Werk Werk Werk haha. Promoting, my new material and writing/recording more for the next releases. Favourite food and place to hangout? Love Pancakes on the Rocks but faves are hard for me as there is so much to experience.

ALIA

Stay Awake

Stay Awake

Wing Defence

PREMIERE – We Sat Down With Adelaide’s Pop Punk Gods – Wing Defence And Talk About Their Latest Single ‘Green Pastures’

VagueEightySix

VagueEightySix

Albert Salt

Albert Salt

Segiri

Segiri

RUDE GRL & CC

RUDE GRL & CC

Etaoin

Etaoin

Marcelo De La Vega

Marcelo De La Vega

Charlotte Rosse

Charlotte Rosse

Billy Reeves

Billy Reeves

Where are you currently based?  Melbourne, Australia How did you first start playing music?  We have both been in the game for a few years now in different capacities, but together we’ve been making music together for about 6 months. How did Dubbel Drop form?  Born from a mutual love of disco loops, hot sauce, Belgian beer and of course the sesh! What's been happening recently?  Been booking in some gigs around Melbourne, working on new tunes and keepin’ it spicy on the reg. What influenced the sound and songwriting of Mighty Knight?  Too many influences to mention them all, but we definitely tout OGs such as Armand Van Helden, Cassius and Stardust as well as the likes of The Phantom’s Revenge, Duck Sauce, Boys Noize and Boston Bun as big vibes for our musical direction. How did you go about writing Mighty Knight?  We found the sample and worked it into a vibe we liked, instantly we felt this was something that would get booties shaking so we finished it off and played it to some trusted homies who all were going nuts about it - from there we knew we were onto something pretty special. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with?  We worked across Jeremy’s home studio and the label studio for different sessions in production, then our dude Alex Braithwaite went in on the mastering and absolutely nailed the sonics we wanted to a tee! How did you approach the recording process?  We didn't technically record anything on this track, it’s all synths and samples baby! What programs/equipment did you use?  Logic Pro. What do you like to do away from music?  Fine dining, watch Seinfeld and search for dank memes. Who are you listening to at the moment?  Buster: I’ve been bumping the new YSL album ’Slime Language 2’ a lot in the car since it dropped the other week. Also Folamour's Cover Mix for Mixmag which is very spicy!  Jeremy: Lately I’ve been bumping a fair bit of Riton and Anti Up and I follow The Magician's Magic Tapes pretty closely. The recent No. 100 is a banger I've thrashed a lot! What's planned for the remainder of 2021?  Playing some sick parties and putting out some more bangers, hopefully get an EP release out for Summer 21/22 Favourite food and place to hangout?  Oh damn this is a hard one!! Gotta give a shout out to the homies at Leonardo’s Pizza Palace in Melbourne, that’s def a slice worth going out out your way for!! Social links / Website: https://linktr.ee/dubbeldrop  Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4R6Kb1sbHUPXcsLTSHdrzN?si=LQMqmBeIR9-FU4mS9u0InQ  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dubbeldrop  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dubbeldropdjs/  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe2VsHyhta4dmlCFXHdid6Q  Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dubbeldrop 

Dubbel Drop

Lauren Day

Lauren Day

Run Over Dogs

Run Over Dogs

Where are you currently based? Sydney, having recently relocated from Melbourne just prior to lockdown. How did you first start playing music? Growing up, my parents made me learn classical piano (which I hated), but in retrospect I’m grateful to have that foundation and understanding of music. I ended up completing AMEB 8th Grade piano, however my heart has always been in contemporary music. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I started to write my own songs, around the same time I became obsessed with pop punk music (e.g. Avril Lavigne and Blink-182). That’s when I bought my first guitar and naturally started writing and singing my own songs. For many years I just kept these songs to myself. It wasn't until I went to uni that I first performed live at an open mic night in Melbourne.  What's been happening recently? I've been busy launching my brand new project FORWARD FOX, with the first track 'Retrograde' coming out last Friday :) Other than that, I've been keeping busy writing and producing music for my own project as well as for other artists and also for film/screen.  You've shifted from your existing project FLUIR (dance-pop) to this new project FORWARD FOX (melodic techno & house) what prompted the shift in projects and genre? Shortly after relocating, I enrolled in Ableton’s Music Production Course at the Liveschool education facility in Sydney. Through completion of this course, it widened my musical theory and curiosity for composition outside the electronic dance-pop genres (i.e. outside my existing project FLUIR). Naturally, I started writing and producing music to explore these new avenues and to further develop my own songwriting and production skill sets. During this stage of personal development and growth musically, I wrote a handful of ambient melodic house compositions including 'Retrograde'. Given the contrasting genres when comparing my existing project FLUIR (dance indie-pop) to the melodic tracks I wrote during lockdown, this led me to launch my new project FORWARD FOX. Your debut single under FORWARD FOX 'Retrograde' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? Whilst I love all genres of music, in my spare time I enjoy mostly listening to techno, electronic and house music. Naturally, this has influenced my own personal development in sound design and songwriting. FORWARD FOX is a natural step in providing an outlet for me to share and develop new sounds and compositions that genuinely inspire me.  How did you go about writing Retrograde? It wasn't until the initial lockdown period that I found I had more free time on my hands. I started playing around on my midi keyboard and remember coming up with the piano lead that is introduced in the second half of the track. From there I built everything around that lead melody. The overall songwriting process was really enjoyable and easy. I ended up writing the overall track within a couple of hours. It then took several months to refine and finish the track! Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with? I produced 'Retrograde' on my own at home on my laptop during the initial covid lockdown. I don't own any hardware so everything was created in the box. The majority of synth sound design was created using my favourite plugin UVI Falcon.  Doug Wright (Fishing, Body Promise, Ten Brains etc) mixed and Brendan Zacharias mastered the track at Cirrus Audio in Sydney.  How did you approach the recording/production process? I usually start by listening to a whole bunch of music to ignite an idea or direction to take. I try not to think too much or put too much pressure on myself to come up with an idea that's 'good enough', as this internal pressure kills the creative process. Generally, I start by looping a kick drum and then play piano or a bassline over the top to try to find an idea I like. I then build the track from there. I try to add as much as I can during the initial writing process before refining and deleting elements later during the arrangement and mixes stages.  Who are you listening to at the moment? My favourite artists I have on rotation at the moment are Roy Blues, Juno Mamba and Made in Paris. Go check them out if you haven't done so already! What do you like to do away from music? I like to exercise, read, listen to podcasts and go out to see live music.  What's planned for 2021? I have a handful of new releases coming out that will take me all the way through to the end of 2021. I also have a few live shows coming up that I will be announcing soon.  Favourite food and place to hangout?  My local kebab shop. Please include links to socials and website. Instagram Facebook Bandcamp SoundCloud Twitter

Forward Fox

Where are you currently based? S: Belgrave bitches. T: Brunswick East! How did you first start playing music? T: Ever since I can remember, Sean has played music. One day as an early teen, he picked up mum’s abandoned acoustic guitar and found after tinkering, he could play pretty much anything… this was the same with any instrument you put in front of him. I, on the other hand, came to it way later. At 28, It was like a light got flicked inside my brain and I couldn’t stop the flow of these strange & archaic songs from pouring out of my brain. Accompanied with a plastic toy tambourine, I recorded everything on the voice memo app of my phone & went for it. I sent every strange and childlike song to Sean, which led to us finally recording this album together. How did The Urban Crowley Collective first come to be? T: When we were kids, (children of the 90’s) we’d record ourselves on our tape deck. We’d do covers of Elvis and Beach Boys… and cheesy 90’s commercials- Decore (a shampoo commercial) being a popular favourite of mine. After one particularly banging rendition of Decore, Sean back announced to our millions of imaginary fans… “That was, THE URBAN CROWLEY COLLECTIVE!” That cassette then just sat in a dusty cupboard for years, and by chance it was found whilst we were making the record. So that's the genesis of the name. Sean’s now a film composer and I’m an Actor, so we would occasionally work together on other peoples projects. So when out of the blue I decided that I was a musician too, Sean was where I turned … now we have an album. What's been happening recently? T: We’ve just released our first single and music video ‘A God I Can Relate To’, so all my attention has been focused on this. Also a series I acted in at the start of the year named ‘Hard Times To Fall In Love’, has also just premiered online over at hardtimestv.com It’s been awesome celebrating this gem with the world. Your debut album 'Born of A Dying Star' will be released later this year, what influenced the sound and songwriting? S: I think I was just having one my periodical 60’s/70’s throwback sessions after Bowie died. So I was listening to a bunch of Bowie, Beatles, Beach Boys and even getting into Wings for the first time. So after that I made the conscious decision to write what I call “songy” songs, when Tegan hit me up to start making music together. So timing really. How did you go about writing the music? S: I just demoed all the tracks using different toys at different times, and then used the demo’s to arrange for Tegs’ new vocal parts. And then we charted the tracks for a small ensemble, so we could track them using more traditional recording processes, which was super fun. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with? S: My go to man for all my work across the last decade has been Luke Postill, who plays a whole bunch of guitars, bass and pedal steel on the record. So he helped track the original band sessions and then we both shared all the Producing and Mixing tasks. How did you approach the recording process? S: Luke, Tegan & I performed all the rhythm section parts together with BJ Morrizonkle on piano, who I was already a mega fan of and Daniel Brates on drums, so it def felt like an pretty special band. Everything they did was pitch perfect. And we smashed the spine of the record out in one massive 14hr day in a big empty basketball stadium. All live, spill in mics, the whole shebang. Then we added a few years worth of over dubs. Orchestra’s, percussion, tons of vocals. It’s pretty dense sonically. What programs/equipment did you use? S: Luke & I share a portable Pro Tools rig which we use for band sessions. Some very sweet sounding mics and pre’s. It’s nice feeling a little bit pro at this stage in our career. The first single 'A God I Can Relate To' was released on 23 April 2021, what does this track mean to you? S: All the tracks on this album tend to reflect a perspective on mortality in one way or another. But this is a funny one for us to start with, as lyrically it’s about yearning to be successful and watching others get ahead, and then dealing with that never ending narrative as we age and gain new perspectives. Ya know :) You also have a second single 'Oh Lord, Please Bestowesth Upon My Son His Daily Dose Of Dimethyltryptamine' to be released 16 May 2021, how did this track come to be and what is the significance to you? S: This is an oldy, and has appeared once before on a weird little EP I self-produced years ago, but I’ve always thought it had more life in it. It’s another reflection on what it means to live a life, and plays out a funny little pantomime between someone who has just died and is now standing at the pearly gates reflecting on what was the whole point of it all. I’m not religious myself, but I do like the using these type of archetypal characters in my work. God’s a gas. But there are few gems in the lyrics. Who are you listening to at the moment? T: Sappho’s debut single ‘Flex’!!!! Also Lana Del Ray’s new album, and I’m loving Maple Glider’s new tracks. What do you like to do away from music? T: Acting always!… taking pics, surfing & hiking with my fella and spending time with my gals! S: We’re both like writing. We’re both separately working on books at the moment so watch this space. That and raising my three manic humans. What's planned for 2021? T: Same thing we do every year…. try to take over the world! Favourite food and place to hangout? T: NYALA Ethiopian on Brunswick St!!! Also… home hahaha. Going back to Mum & Dads for Mums cooking. yum.

The Urban Crowley Collective

Lulleaux

Lulleaux

MOTI / BODYWORX

MOTI / BODYWORX

Mountain Bird

Mountain Bird

KÖLSCH REMIXES JOE GODDARD & FRANKY RIZARDO'S LOCKDOWN LINK UP TRACK; ‘NO JUDGEMENT’ ADDING HIS SIGNATURE MELODIC AND EMOTIVE ELECTRONIC TOUCH

KÖLSCH REMIXES JOE GODDARD & FRANKY RIZARDO’S LOCKDOWN LINK UP TRACK; ‘NO JUDGEMENT’ ADDING HIS SIGNATURE MELODIC AND EMOTIVE ELECTRONIC TOUCH

Long-standing residents of Glasgow’s prolific underground club scene Co-Accused have launched their new techno and electro orientated label Co-Accused Records. Debuting with a digital and vinyl 4 track Psychonaut EP from them on 14th May and featuring a remix from Jensen Interceptor, the release is permeated with the same infectious energy and driving, futuristic techno that fuels their live sets. As well as gifting fans with vinyl manifestations of their notorious basement parties, the new label is also the husband and wife duo’s way of showcasing some of the extraordinary talent that has been bubbling under the surface of the country’s empty dancefloors.  The new EP is a reflection of the promising underground talent they have supported over the years in their club night in Paisley’s Club 69 in the West of Glasgow. The locally adored parties have accumulated an impressive roster of artists over the years. Alongside some of the most exciting emerging names, as well as time-honoured leaders of the scene like Slam and Leftfield, Co-Accused have consistently provided an authentic haven for underground dance fans in the city’s rapidly changing club scene.  We caught up with them to hear more and you can check out their epic ‘Sonic Assault’ mix here that has gone live to celebrate the new label news. Where are you based?  We live in a town called Paisley which is just outside of Glasgow in Scotland. Co-Accused Records launches this Spring. What was behind the decision to launch your own label?  It’s something we’ve always wanted to do. Our music was going down really well in our DJ sets so we felt like now was the time to get it out there to like-minded music lovers :) What kind of artists and sounds will the label embody?  We love underground electro & techno. Over the years, artists like Sync 24, Anthony Rother, Dave Clarke, Gary Beck, Luke Slater and The Hacker have influenced our sound. It would be amazing to get them involved. We’re very keen to release music from up and coming relatively unknown producers too. The label’s debut release, Psychonaut Society, is dropping in May. What can we expect to hear?  Sonic grooves from another galaxy!  What inspired the title of the EP?  The title felt fitting with the vibe of the EP. We’ve been on a few Psychonaut journey’s ourselves that felt like we were travelling through space. If you haven’t been on one before, give it a go. We highly recommend it ;)  Australian producer Jensen Interceptor is behind a huge remix of the EPs title track - how did this come about?  Mikey played at one of our parties in 2019. We really hit it off and were delighted when he said he would be up for doing something on the label. We’ve always loved his sound and couldn’t be happier with the remix. How long have Co-Accused been making records together for?  We’ve been producing together for about 5 years. What is your creative process like?  We love to jam on our synths with some basic beats and build from there. Our current set up is the Bass Station II, Minilogue, Micro Korg, TR-8 and the TT-303 Bass Bot. We enjoy using hardware as it’s more hands on approach and have fun twiddling knobs to create our sound. What labels inspire you?  Cultivated Electronics, Soma, UR, Brokntoys, R&S, Gigolo, Bek Audio, Bass Agenda, Rotation and Mechatronica have been a big influence.  Once the world can dance together again, where are you each most excited to play?  We’re buzzing to get back to our residency in Club 69. It’s a proper underground club and the vibe is always amazing! We’ve also got the Riverside Festival in Glasgow to look forward to in September. Yasss :) As stalwarts of Scotland’s underground electronic music scene, what artist are you most excited about right now?  Fear-E is a wicked producer and DJ. We love his sound and there’s always a few of his tunes in our playlist.  What can we expect next from Co-Accused Records?  All going well, A VA compilation of Electro & Techno from established Artists and unknown producers who we think are wicked.  You can connect with them on Facebook and check out their latest mix ‘Sonic Assault’ to celebrate their new label news here.

Co-Accused

Where are you currently based? I was originally raised in the UK in East London but since moving to Australia I have been based on the north side of Sydney. How did you first start playing music? I first started playing music when I picked up the guitar at nine years old, and from there began rapping and producing as I got older. What's been happening recently? I've been working hard at music! I didn't release as much music as I wanted to last year so in 2021 my goal is to drop heaps of content, so I've had my head down and have been focused on writing and recording. Your new single 'Go Up' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? 'Go Up' was influenced heavily by the new wave of afrobeat music coming from the UK. I wanted to tap into this vibe as I thought it was a relatively unexplored genre in the Australian Hip Hop scene that I am a massive fan of.  How did you go about writing 'Go Up'? The writing process for 'Go Up' was very smooth and effortless. The lyrics and melody for the hook just kind of came to me randomly one day while I was listening to beats in the studio. From there I wrote the verses for the track, trying not to overthink anything and let my ideas flow as naturally as possible, which I think is reflected in the laid-back and smooth style of the song.  Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? I recorded the track spontaneously one night in my home studio when I caught a vibe with some friends. I mix and master my own music so this was also all done in the home studio. What programs/equipment did you use? I use Logic Pro X to record, mix and master and I used the Neumann TLM102 microphone to capture the vocals. How did you approach the recording process? I tried to loosen up with the recording process for this song. I didn't overthink anything and tried to let it flow as naturally as possible, which I think reflected in the loose and laid back style of the track. How did the concept for the music video come about? The concept for the music video was a combined effort by myself and my videographer Connor Neil. We wanted to come up with an idea that was culturally relevant while still funny, so we eventually decided on going with the theme that you see in the final video with me and the gang clashing against the COVID marshalls. Who did you work with during the creation of the music video? I worked with my videographer and close friend Connor Neil during the creation of the music video. We have collaborated together in the past on other music videos and it's always a great time working with him, he's one of the best and most unique videographers in Sydney! Where and when did you film and how was the experience? We filmed the video roughly two months ago at various spots in our local area. It was a great experience, its always a fun time working with Connor and we captured some great energy with the boys during the shoot. What's your opinion of the current state of Australian Hip Hop and how has it evolved? I've been a fan of Australian Hip Hop for over a decade and I'm very proud of the current state of the scene. It has been so rewarding to watch the scene grow and expand over the years and I'm very eager to see how it evolves going forward. What do you like to do away from music? I spend most of my time working on music, however outside of this I do have a couple hobbies. I enjoy going to gym, kicking back with the bro's, spending time with the fam and playing video games if anyone wants the smoke! Who are you listening to at the moment? I'm listening to a lot of Australian and UK artists at the moment. Some of my current favourites are Chillinit, M1llionz, Lisi and AJ Tracey. What's planned for 2021? Takeover is planned for 2021! I'm extremely motivated to keep releasing regular content in the form of new music and videos throughout the rest of the year. Favourite food and place to hangout? My favourite food varies from day-to-day but I'm a sucker for some good fried chicken. My favourite place to hang out is in my home studio where I can work on music and chill out with my friends. IG: https://www.instagram.com/n4temusic/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/n4temusic/ Streaming: li.sten.to/N4TEGOUP

Sydney artist N4TE releases new banger ‘Go Up’

Quentyn

Quentyn

Bambi O'Hara

Bambi O’Hara

JXCKY

JXCKY

Taylor B-W

Taylor B-W

DJ GOMI: Kazuhiko Gomi MIKE:  Mike Ivy SARAH: Born Sarah Kate Sporleder and Sarah Mattea comes from my great great aunt Deensha Matthee who was a famous Opera singer in Czechoslovakia during the days of Vaudeville. I slightly changed the spelling and Mattea means “Gift of God” or “God’s Gift” in Hebrew.      How did you all three come together for this special collaboration?  Mike & Gomi had great success on previous collaborations together in recent years, and we all came together in 2019 to do “Touch” which was released on Toolroom Trax under Sarah's moniker Luv Junkie.  Mike & Gomi wanted Sarah to sing this new cool track they produced and of course, She was all in as a Sarah Mattea release instead of Luv Junkie for this one. What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been? SARAH: That’s a loaded question it’s been quite a year!  So much has happened for all of us.   It has certainly made it hard to get in the studio with everyone. Right now, it is all about building back our communities and making sure our loved ones stay safe. MIKE & GOMI:  It has been tough at times, working on music and taking things day by day. Many gigs have died down or basically disappeared with quarantine, but we do the best with what we have and stay creative at home or in the studio safely. As a collab the three of you have written the single 'What U Do' how did you all decide on the direction to take the songwriting? Mike & Gomi had this incredible track and we all got together for a writing session back in July 2020.  Sarah had these two song ideas on her voice notes that fit perfectly so we mashed those together and added some adlibs along with all the magic! What influenced the sound and songwriting? Sarah was in Ibiza when she wrote those two song ideas, giving Mike and Gomi the idea of taking that ibiza sound influence to the track and the melodies flowed perfectly.  How did you all go about writing What U Do? We were in Gomi’s studio just throwing around ideas to the track him and Mike created, and it was truly a group effort. Each of us have our creative forte’s and it really makes for a perfect production when we all come together. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with? Gomi’s studio and all the above were done by the three of us. How did the recording/production process take place? Mike & Gomi wanted a vocal on this track idea and I was excited to work with them again. What programs/equipment/instruments did you use? MIKE/GOMI: Logic Pro, UAD Apollo, Avalon compressor, Neumann microphone, some Roland gear, Korg M1, Fabfilter plugins, UAD plugins, and many other plugins, some drum samples from splice. What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the writing and recording/production process?   COVID made it a little challenging, but we put this together and recorded it in one night. Mike & Gomi spent some time on the production of course, but we always have a great time in the studio, laughing, sharing ideas and bouncing around our ideas. Will you all be working together in the future on more music?  Yes, Mike & Gomi already have a track that they are waiting on Sarah to get in the studio to put my vocals on for the next LUV JUNKIE project! Who are you listening to at the moment? GOMI: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven MIKE: I have an eclectic taste and variety of genres so just about everything depending on the mood. SARAH: I have a huge spectrum of styles that I like to listen to, so I toggle my Pandora between the top pop radio hits, old school R&B and house music stations. What do you like to do away from music? SARAH: Real estate career by day and love to coach young women in gymnastics and fitness.   I also give my time to local charities such as Sing for Hope and New York Cares. GOMI: Go to the gym and exercise. MIKE : Hanging with my family, watching movies, going out and spending time together.  What's planned for What U Do and the remainder of 2021? Purple Tea has some great plans for the release….. So play it loud and hopefully get some summer performances/gigs!  We certainly hope the fans love it, grab a copy and stream it on all platforms worldwide!  Favourite food and place to hangout? GOMI:Ramen shop- ICHIRAN in Brooklyn. MIKE:I’m a foodie so there’s too many to mention but I love Astoria and Williamsburg in NYC, where you have a great variety of cuisines. SARAH: SUSHI!  SugarFish in Union Square is one of my favorites but hanging out anywhere that’s outside right now perfect ha!  Long Island City boardwalk and Central Park are probably my favorite places now that it is warming up but cannot wait until the pool parties start back up or indoor venues so I can support all my DJ friends and dance my bum off! https://www.facebook.com/djgomi https://www.instagram.com/djgomi/ https://www.facebook.com/djmikeivy https://www.instagram.com/djmikeivy/ https://www.facebook.com/sarahmattea https://www.instagram.com/iamsarahmattea/

DJ Gomi, Mike Ivy & Sarah Mattea -‘What U Do’

JERRICA ALYSSA

JERRICA ALYSSA

Groove City

Groove City

Hoko

Hoko

Elke Schon

Elke Schon

Flyght Club

Flyght Club

Jus Kno'

Jus Kno’

Where are you currently based? Melbourne, Australia. How did you first start playing music? Music has always been a part of my life.  I came from a lineage of piano players so having a musical instrumental around the house growing up was a normal thing.  I taught myself how to play the guitar and started teaching myself how to produce music on Acid Pro, when that was the thing back in the day.  I did all the music subjects throughout high school and just started writing and studying songs for fun, never knowing it would lead to this someday.  What's been happening recently? Been a little crazy, just released the second single, Just Another Love Song and the promo around that has been a little taxing.  It's super exciting though, just really happy to get some new music out there and to be working with an amazing management team (Cartel Management), who have really helped to streamline the process.   Danny Hacket has been your long-time writing partner and has been instrumental in writing your new single, how did the two of you meet and please tell us about your journey up until this point: Danny and I met many eras ago lol!  I was actually his singing teacher back in the day and he came to me with some lyrics that he'd written, and we sat down, and things just started to flow.  Originally, we were working more on Danny's solo stuff with his vocals on the songs but as time progressed, we felt that my vocal would be more suited to how we wanted the stories to be told.  Your debut single 'Treading Water' made it to the final of the international songwriting competition, how did this song come about? Honestly, don't know how it came about. We were very surprised but nevertheless, humbled, and very thankful for the opportunity.  One thing we can attribute to its success is the amazing director for the video clip, Herson Delos Santos.  Herson really saw the vision we had for the video clip which centred around the awareness of mental health and really brought it to life.  If anything, we've got him to thank for making it as a finalist. Your single 'Just Another Love Song' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? The song concept actually started as being a sappier type of love song but as we started to write it, Danny came to me with some lyrics that were a little more painful and about unrequited love.  As songwriters, Danny and I both seem to lean towards the more honest concepts around life.  If we're going to write about love, we're going to write about the little honest thought processes that go on in someone's head, like how worried we are about being uncool in front of someone they're attracted to.   The sound was really influenced by the indie pop sound going on at the moment.  As a producer, I really wanted to find the balance between acoustic and electronic sounds, incorporating acoustic guitars and pianos with synths and subby kicks etc.  For me, using thick harmonies has always been an Eli Dan trademark so I had to put it in the hook of this song.   Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? JALS was 100% recorded, produced and mastered at my home studio and I did it all on my own.  All of our tracks have been produced this way.   What does this single mean to you? It's the second single and especially after Covid last year, which effectively ruined all of our plans, this single means a heck of a lot.  It's about just getting back out there and being free to just speak truth.  As a private person, there's a lot of things that I write in songs that I'd never say out loud and that's what these songs do.  In effect, being able to speak my mind without actually saying any words.   We're really excited about JALS and for the rest of this year with some follow up singles but JALS is the first cab of the rank and we can't wait to see how she goes.  How did you find inspiration during Covid? Well, Covid was a little of a blessing in disguise.  Both Danny and I found that we had more time to write and focus on our music.  We were in Zoom sessions every couple of days, just writing our little butts off and JALS was actually a song that was written in Covid.  I did a streamed show as well which was pretty fun and slightly awkward because I was clapping at myself at the end of each song.  Who are you listening to at the moment? I'm really loving JP Saxe at the moment.  I love how clever he is with the way he crafts his melodies around the honesty of the lyric.   What do you like to do away from music? I've recently started taking up bike riding.  I'm not very good at it but it's a good way to get out of the house for some fresh air whilst also incorporating some exercising.  What's planned for 2021? We're really excited about 2021.  We've got another 2 singles we're looking to drop and hopefully an EP towards the end of the year or early 2022.  We're also looking to get out there and do our own shows hopefully in the second part of this year.  Favourite food and place to hangout? Favourite food? That's a tough question, ummm, everything! Being from a Filipino background, food is definitely a huge part of me.  If I had to boil it down to a specific cuisine, I'd have to say Malaysian food because it's got such a broad variety of flavours.   Favourite place to hang out? I love being outdoors, going on hikes or going camping so one of my favourite places to go to just get grounded would be Wilson's Prom.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eli.dan.music/​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EliDanproductions Website: www.elidan.com.au Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/26JuiVTaxKBh7msNFcVxKw?si=C0PkfgrdS0Wb_nHJZD7Lrg&utm_source=copy-link YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43JWQIw2x3Q

Eli Dan

OLY SHERMAN

Kayex

Kayex

Leaps

Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5

Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5

What is your name and role within Kyoshi Mother? My name is Leah Wilkie, I front the band playing keys and singing, and I do quite a lot of the song writing as well. Where are you currently based? I live in Newtown, the boys all live in and around Newtown and Marrickville too so we’re more or less based in Sydney’s Inner west - a great hub for local artists. What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been so far? Well, Covid for me personally was amazing. I loved being able to slow down, and to do a lot of self-work and self-reflection. We don’t get a lot of opportunity to do that in our society, we really have to make time for ourselves if we want it. I felt that collectively too, everybody really needed to realise the importance of slowing down and learning to sit with ourselves. On the other side of that, I am also excited that things are opening up again for everybody - although I do hope that everyone can find a bit more of a balance coming out of their experience in 2020. Your new single 'Mother' is out today, what influenced the sound and song writing? Collective feminine energy was the big inspiration for Mother! I really felt energised by a lot of the amazing women in my life, and inspired by some of the leading female artists in the scene too like; Allysha Joy, Moonchild and Nai Palm. I really wanted to honour the creativity, and the divinity that lies within us and is all around, through nature, connectivity and love. How did you go about writing Mother? Well, I was sitting at the piano, I had the bass line and the vocal melody in my head already, and then I settled on some chords. The lyrics really just flowed straight out of me at the time - something that does not happen often in the writing process for me. It was something that I just really needed to express - It was also a reminder to myself to honour my own creativity and divine femininity too. To always show myself more love! Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? We did most of the recording at Coda Audio and at Yianni’s house (our guitarist and synth player) over 2019 with our recording engineer Felix Abrahams. Felix also mixed our record, we did that at his place, and Madalyn Henly from Viking Lounge Studio is our mastering engineer. How did you approach the recording process? We went in a little blind, it being our first record and all. We definitely learnt a lot coming out of the experience, we know what we would do again and what we would totally change next time round. But we had a lot of fun recording and adding parts in, we really took our time with everything too. We preferred to sit on ideas and flesh things out as they came rather than rushing. You're playing 8th April at Waywards - Newtown, what do you have in store for this gig? Yes! We are so so excited for this show, I am bursting to play live again. The show is going to be huge, we’ll be playing some tunes off our upcoming record, there will be ethereal soundscapes and improvised interludes and jams (amongst other things) - we always love throwing in some improv and just vibe off each other. You have a debut album pencilled in for around August 2021, can you give us a hint of what to expect? The love child of a caramel slice and a sticky date pudding, but for your ears. Who are you listening to at the moment? I’ve been loving Edu Lobo’s album Cantiga De Longe, some delicious Brazilian music, Yussef Dayes' and Tom Misch’s latest creation What Kinda Music, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange - some crazy creators from Melbourne, and Epoch by Alfa Mist. What do you like to do away from music? I love to read actually, always got a couple of books on the go. I practice yoga often, I run small groups for friends too - honestly it keeps me sane! I’ve just started running women’s circles too - something I am extremely excited about continuing. Cooking is also a very cathartic practice for me. I’m also a music teacher, so I pour lots of my energy into that. I absolutely adore the crazy cycle of knowledge, and sharing something that I’m so passionate about with others is just so incredibly rewarding. What's planned for 2021? For me, 2021 is all about honouring my own needs, and really becoming the person I want to be, surrounding myself with beautiful humans, and creating my own opportunities. I’m also really excited to see how Kyoshi’s path unfolds this year, really focus on expanding our flavour but mostly just really enjoying one another and enjoying the journey. https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/kyoshi https://www.facebook.com/kyoshiband/ https://www.instagram.com/kyoshi_band/

Kyoshi

Alicia Toner

Alicia Toner Premiere

Where are you currently based? I still live at home with my parents in Temecula, California. What's been happening recently and how has you Covid experience been so far? My COVID experience has been pretty positive because that's been the most time I've ever had to work on music and to really just delve into what I love. How did you first start playing music? I've grown up with a lot of music. Mormons have an entire hour... Well, not an entire hour, but they sing a lot in church and a lot of Mormon kids get piano lessons. So, my family was always musically inclined and all of that. So, I've always played instruments and stuff, but I got my first guitar and I'm the best at the guitar. I got my first guitar when I was 13. Your new single 'Violent' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? I would say the sound, it's a Lil Peep type beat. So of course, Lil Peep influenced it. The writing, what influenced the writing is honestly, I wrote that song really fast. It literally just came to me, but at the time, I was in kind of like a bad relationship. So, I'm sure the reason those kind of painful lyrics came to me so easily is because that's kind of what I was feeling on the inside. How did you go about writing Violent? I just found the beat and then it was really catchy. I just decided to write to it, and in 30 minutes, it was done. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? I recorded it in my bedroom on my Apple headphones late at night. I actually couldn't even sing that loud because my parents were sleeping. So, on the, "... back door," part I had to kind of do it quietly, which it probably wouldn't turn out maybe better if I had full done it, but I don't know. Then it was produced by a guy named Khalil in Turkey. Yeah, it was a YouTube beat. Violent blew up on TikTok, how did this come about? Someone just asked for it on TikTok. They were Like, "I need Violent on TikTok," and I was like, "Say less." So, I put a screen recording of it up and then it kind of just went from there. How has this massive exposure impacted your life, I hear it led to you being signed? Yes. I got signed, which has been really great, and it's also impacted my life. It's stressful in a way to have that many eyes on you, but it's also really rewarding in a way that I feel kind of a responsibility to speak out on issues and just be really honest and be a good person in the industry because obviously, there's a lot of good people, but I feel like there's a good place for me to... I'm really relatable and a lot of people can... I'm a good story of success because I came from a really bad place and look at me now. You grew up as a Mormon with a very strong connection with your mother, how has life changed over the years? I've always been really, really close to my mom. I think I would say the person I got closer to, I didn't used to be very close to my dad, but I'm really close to him now, too. I have a really good relationship with both my parents, but I left the church when I was 13 or 14. I just kind of stopped going and told my parents, "Oh, I don't believe in this." But they've always been very, even though I don't believe in... Obviously, it's been a struggle telling your parents you don't believe in that and I was always super rebellious and kind of a bad kid sometimes. So, our relationship was really strained, but I think my parents understand now. They just understand who I am, why I did those things. Yeah. Who are you listening to at the moment? I listen to a lot of Slug Christ and I was into a lot of Future and Earth Eater. I listen to a lot of Midwestern emo music like The Story So Far. That's lately. What do you like to do away from music? To be honest, my other hobby is literally just smoking. I like to bake, and I like to cook. I really like to eat. I'm a foodie. What's planned for 2021? To release the best album that's ever been made. Favourite food and place to hangout? That's my favorite food and my favorite place to hang out in my garage. I know it sounds crazy. I love my garage. I have done everything in this garage. There are so many memories here, but now, we have a nice TV and a couch. Yeah, I just like hanging out in my garage.

carloesdaughter

Where are you based? Glasgow, Scotland  What influenced the sound behind your debut EP on In The Event of Capture Records, titled Pàrtaig? I wanted to make something that combined my love of warm, emotional, electronic music with my Scots Gaelic heritage. Trying to bring a stomping barn dance vibe and the club energy of Glasgow together. I tend to see my music on two sides of the fence.  Either being industrial and driven, like Glasgow or slow and melancholic, like the Outer Hebrides. I wanted to try and fit these two headspaces together, so set out to make a bunch of tracks that contained both, rather than being opposed to each other and this is the result. How did you approach the recording and production process for the EP? It was varied.   Mostly trying different composition and structural techniques and pieces of equipment out.  The majority of it was made on my modular system, mostly just jamming with bleeps and bloops, hooks, samples and percussive things then fleshing out ideas and parts until they came together in a satisfying way. What track are you most excited to play live when the time comes, and why? Hard to choose!  The title track definitely, but it's Yamazona I'm most excited to hear.  It's got a dense thump and a slightly odd but glowing feeling to it. I think it will be potent over a big system. The title of the EP is the gaelic word for Partick which is where you’re from in Glasgow. What do you think makes the city’s nightlife and club scene so special?  A satisfied Glaswegian crowd is a formidable force. When an artist plays the right song in the right setting, crowds just explode with energy.  It’s spontaneous, No one can really predict it but when it happens, you get this intense feeling in the air which is palpable for everyone involved. It's hilarious, genuine and long may it continue! I personally think it's a combination of endless optimism and being continuously disappointed by the weather that gives us that extra special something.  What is your creative process like and how much has lockdown influenced this?   Good question.  It's definitely changed since last year but I'm not sure if that's entirely lockdown related or just that things were naturally at a crossroad for me in terms of my workflow.   I’d been working on my studio setup for about 3 months prior to lockdown to encourage this new process so they weirdly dovetailed in March. Suddenly I had a lot of extra time and a new studio environment to distract me from the external chaos. I think I possibly did a year's worth of problem solving and ironing out snags in a week, and got straight into making music with a sense of urgency which I think was in part due to the anxiety of the situation. In my creative space, I’ll typically have thought about something that day or I’ll become aware of being in a certain mood.  Pick a sound, possibly manipulate a sample or find a nice oscillator tone and within about 5 minutes I'll have a basic idea, then I just follow my instincts. Sometimes I can feel it instantly adding up, sometimes it doesn't. I just try to trust my gut and ignore my head.  How did you begin working with ‘In the Event of Capture’? Through a mutual friend who had sent ITEOC a bunch of tracks I’d been working on late in the summer.  We then got in touch and discussed the possibility of doing something together and it all just seemed to naturally take shape from there.  When did you first decide you wanted to make music? 7 years old. Listening to a compilation of electro music. As soon as I heard a synthesiser/drum machine/sequencer combo for the first time. I will never forget it. I was instantly obsessed.  Who are your biggest musical influences?  Cristian Vogel, UR, Boards of Canada, Delia Derbyshire, Carl Craig, KDJ, Aphex Twin, Stefan Betke, CAN, Parliament Funkadelic. Also by my two grandfathers, who were both musical. Once the world can dance again, where are you most excited to play?   Any outdoor music event, preferably in the sunshine What does the rest of 2021 hold for you?  Clearly keeping myself and those around me safe and well, and hopefully lots of interesting musical adventures.  Getting more confident performing with my modular system (in the studio for the moment).  Releasing more music, I have an album ready that I think explores the more experimental/weird side of my musical mind. It's turned out sounding like I am having an internal conversation with my ancestors via a modular synth! Really keen to work with a filmmaker and bring other dimensions into that. Have an  EP in a similar vein to Partaig which is done and dusted and some other tracks recorded and ready for something. A thumping summer party track that's almost finished. Lots of music, Be nice to get to the Western Isles at some point later in the year (lockdown permitting)  just to breathe and remind myself of life outside the city. I daydream that I’ll be able to take a battery operated drum machine with me and I'll find a PA system setup on the beach to entertain myself with the seagulls and sheep all nodding along.

Rob Macleod

Where are you currently based?  Currently I'm based in Tuscany, Italy where my girlfriend is from. We were  previously based in London but after the pandemic happened there was only so  long we could stay because of obvious financial reasons. My girlfriend grew up on a  farm here so we moved last June to be with her family.   How did you first start playing music?   Well I was writing from a pretty young age. I wanted to be a screenwriter/actor and  star in my own films so I was brimming with ideas for stories etc. I used to play  amateur rugby for my local hometown under 16s and broke my leg when I was  about 14. I had had an interest in music but it didn't really blossom til my mum  brought a copy of Walk The Line home to watch when I was at home in a cast. I  was just mesmerised with the Johnny Cash story and his music and that lead me  onto Rock bands and Blues artists like Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and  Muddy Waters. I was still pretty fixated on screenwriting and acting, however, until  me and a group of friends snuck off to Glastonbury in 2009 when we should have  been doing our exams. There I saw Bruce Springsteen headline the festival and it  was like nothing I had ever seen. I didn't really know any of his music but after that  show I was totally converted. I felt like I was at church and I had found my religion.  Since then it's been all I want to do.   What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been? Well we've been in Tuscany for almost 10 months now and I couldn't be more  grateful for it. When the pandemic kicked off my girlfriend and I were not in great  financial situations. I had been busking full time in London for 4 years, at that point  trying to move onto gigging full time for various hotels, bars and agencies, and she  was a barista trying to get onto the London Underground for a better wage. Our  financial situations were precarious at best. When the pandemic happened I lost a  hotel residency I had in Kensington, the agency I had literally joined 3 weeks before  lost all their gigs and she was fired from her job. I had no money and had to take a  job working for the forestry commission on the Scottish border just to cover some  rent for the initial couple of months. When the job had finished by May it didn't take  us long to make up our minds and head back to her family's home where the  difference in pace, the familial solidarity, the weather and the food has certainly  made a huge difference on our mental health. Outside of working for her old man  I've really been able to sit down and focus on how I want to get my recorded music  out there.   Your track 'Come Bring Your Hype Here' is out now, what influenced the  sound and songwriting?  The song had a lot of influences to be fair. The opening riff came first which I kind of  felt was like what Alex Turner might do if he did an impression of Jimi Hendrix and  that kind of set the tone for the rest of the song. My band and I took a lot of classic  Funk and Disco style tropes and just kind of meshed them together but wanted to  keep that very British, Arctic Monkeys-esque attitude.   Then came the lyrical content. At the time I was busking there were protests  nearly every weekend and it was frustrating if you were depending on the weekend  for the vast bulk of your bread and butter. It could get a little frustrating because a  lot of the time you’d agree with the cause which made it all the more frustrating  when you couldn’t earn any money or get home. It was annoying when you’d speak  to people in the protests and they just wouldn’t seem to get that or, worse yet, even  know a damn thing about the reason why they were there almost as though they  were joining ‘a hype’. But one of the best things I noticed was come the evening  time us buskers, when we finished, usually cracked open a few cans and  sometimes even had a jam and that would attract all sorts of people over.  Sometimes you'd get two completely opposing opinions from the protests/counter protests and just watch as they'd argue and then just talk it out as human beings.  Agreeing to disagree.    Social media and mainstream news has us believing there are these huge  divides in society and they have a lot to answer for in my opinion. You’ll be  surprised how reluctant people often are to get into disagreements if they’re face to  face like human beings. Now, obviously it wasn't always the way but when it did  happen it was great. It reminded me of a Bill Hicks skit where he's making the  argument to legalise weed and how much the world would just be a better place if  they did. "Shut up and smoke this!". Well for me it was much more British. "Come  on, why don't we settle this over a pint?". So the song kind of evolved out of this  idea of 'what if utopia were this crazy dive bar where there was only one rule; you  leave your differences at the door'.   How did Come Bring Your Hype Here come about?  Well that was all the beginning of the song. After that I kind of based the bar on the  pub I worked in for two years when I was 19 which just made sense because it was  an Indie Rock Bar and the style of the song was very much heading in that  direction. The other great thing about it was that everyone in the town seemed to  pass through at least once in the night. It was class. It just had this universal  appeal. I'll never forget that.   Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? So the funding for the track came about after a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign  I set up in the back end of 2019. My fans subsequently funded the recording of my  debut album, which is due for release October 22nd, and CBYHH is the next single  from that. The song has been recorded with one of my best friends who saw me  busking back in 2016. He was in his first year of a music production course at  university and asked if I wanted to work with him and we've been working together  ever since. Minus the drums, which we did at his university, the bulk of the album  was recorded in the various bedrooms he was staying in in London. Come Bring  Your Hype Here was his flat in Richmond I believe and was one of the ones we had  to finish during lockdown in May/June. I was renting Boris bikes and cycling to his  flat, avoiding public transport for obvious reasons, just so we could get the album  done before my girlfriend and I had to leave the country.   How did you approach the songwriting process? Well I always try to make sure the song is either playable or malleable to being  played solo because I can't always afford my band mates, The Ginkgo Milk, who  also play on this track. So it's important the songs are engaging with or without a  band. Interesting guitars are a priority as is a vocal melody. My main passion is for  the lyrics though. As a writer I try to make them as impactful as possible with  respect to the theme or mood of the song.   What programs/instruments did you use?  So the program we used was Pro Tools. Instruments wise it's your classic Funk  Rock song. Drums, Bass, Guitars. What else do you need, right? Haha   Who are you listening to at the moment?  At the moment I'm listening to a lot from the Black Pumas who I've been in love with  since that album came out. A lot of Frank Zappa too. What a genius he was! Hailu  Mergia and the Dahlak Band's album Wade Harer Guzo is not far from my ears  these days as well as various Jazz artists. I'm also pretty big on John Mayer and  Norah Jones.   What do you like to do away from music?  I've done MMA in my spare time, on and off, when finances have allowed since I  was about 20. It's purely amateur, hobby and fitness related though. I just find a lot  of them totally fascinating, character building and great fun. I'm hoping to compete  in amateur bouts some day but I think there's a long way to go. They also keep me  out of the pub which I think is my number one hobby as a true English man haha! I  also love film, literature, hiking/camping, cooking, history, politics...I'm a bit of a  Jack of all Trades master of sod all haha! So many interests so little time, I guess.   What's planned for 2021?  For 2021 I'm going to be releasing singles until the full album is out come October.  I'll also be growing my YouTube channel, recording more music and just trying to  connect with current fans and building new ones to the best of my ability. It's a great  time to be a musician because of this first hand access social media allows us to  have with our audience and I look forward to trying to use these tools to reach out  to potential listeners.   Favourite food and place to hangout?  Crisps and pubs haha!

Andy John Jones

Ben Wright Smith

Ben Wright Smith

Flow & Zeo

Flow & Zeo

What is your name and role within Inklines? Will - I sing and play guitar. Where are you currently based and how has your Covid experience been so far? We’re all based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. The last year has been interesting, with how much the whole environment of live music has changed. There’s been a lot of down time but we’ve kept busy writing and recording new music. Jamming heaps!  How did Inklines form? I asked Tom if he wanted to drum with me after I saw him playing in a mate’s band, at a local show. My brother Jason was playing bass for a while, but he wanted to do other things so we called up Dan, who Tom knew from school, and convinced him to join. What's been happening recently? We’ve been jamming heaps which has been really good. Keeping busy with promoting and preparing singles. We played our first show in 12 months just a few weeks back, which was great fun!  Your new single 'Blossom' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? I think I was mainly just going for simplicity. I got the idea for wanting to do a big outro riff from Madison Cunningham’s song – “Song In My Head”. How did Blossom come about? I recorded the riff into my phone recorder a year or so ago. It just randomly popped into my head one night and I started writing bass lines under the riff. For about a week, I would record a different little line or chord voicing and add it on there until I just worked out what I wanted, where.  Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? We recorded this and 6 other songs in a house on a farm just outside of Goulbourn. Lachlan West engineered, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered the whole session. What programs/equipment did you use? You’d have to ask Lachlan about the programs – I think Logic? The guitars in this track are primarily a Fender Telecaster & a Gibson SG Custom, with a J45 for some extra percussive textures. Tom played on an old Ludwig kit that Lachy owns. Dan uses a J bass & a P bass, I’m not certain what he used on this track but my guess would be P. How did you approach the recording process? We always like to get the fundamentals down from a live session. So, all the bass & drums and some rhythm guitars are taken from one of the 7 or 8 takes we do, of each song. Then I add all the extra guitar layers and vocals in later. Who are you listening to at the moment? I’m not actually listening to much at the moment. I’ve just kind of been relistening to things from the last 2 or 3 years. My most recent obsession was The Neighbourhood’s “Chip Chrome and the Monotones”, and I still love to listen to that, but I haven’t much else that I’ve been super excited about since. What do you like to do away from music, now things are less locked down? Recently I’ve mostly been busy preparing to be a father! My daughter is due in May. So I’ve been spending lots of time with my girlfriend, building cots, shopping for small clothes and all the rest! We also have a small business so I’ve been focussing on pushing that as much as possible. You’re playing Saturday, March 27th Secret Location, Brookvale Sydney, what can we expect from an Inklines show? We’ve actually just rescheduled the show for April 2nd! Normally you can expect us to play loud and hard, but for this one we’re taking it down a notch and giving the acoustic “unplugged” thing a go. What's planned for 2021? We’ve got a bunch of songs to release so that will be the main focus! We’ll definitely play some shows when we can but it’s a strange world out there at the moment, so we aren’t rushing into anything.

Inklines

Zac Stellars

Zac Sellars

What is your name and role within Full Power Happy Hour?  G'day I'm Alex, I'm the lead singer & play rhythm guitar. Where are you currently based?  Brisbane/Meanjin How did you first start playing music?  I've been singing in choirs since I was like 5, but it wasn't until my older sister bought me an acoustic guitar for my 14th birthday, that I started writing songs and playing music. How did the band form?  I had a heap of songs that I'd written a while ago that didn't fit with my other bands, so I was playing them solo for a while. One day I decided I wanted to record them with a band and set about finding some people to record with. I'd played with Caroline and Joe in other bands before so got them on board, then did a call out for a lead guitarist and Grace put her hand up and became our resident shredder. I missed my friend Finn, and thought if he joined the band I'd see him more regularly. He played drums, but the drummer role was already taken by Joe, so Finn agreed to come on board as our tambourine player and also filled the role of resident hype person quite nicely. It began only as a recording project, but then people asked us to play shows so we did, and that's how we became Full Power Happy Hour. What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been?  We didn't see each other for about 4 months when we initially went into lock down, which was tough, but we were lucky that before Covid hit we managed to record our album. Basically the last 6 months or so have been all focussed in getting this album out. We signed with Coolin' By Sound which was bloody amazing, and we are so grateful for their help with all of this. It's been almost normal here covid wise, we are very lucky that we've been able to play some gigs to help promote the album, and we got to make a film clip a few weeks ago on a cute farm.  How did the transition from playing in the Brisbane punk scene into indie-folk/alt-country realms come about?  Folk and country were my first loves, I was a tween when I started listening to all the 60s folk songstresses like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Peggy Seegar, which was probably really weird for a 12 year old in the 2000s but I was really into them so my songwriting was influenced by that whole vibe. So that was always at the back of mind, that one day I wanted to play that kind of music again. The only reason why I started off in the punk scene was because the first band I was in was a punk band. But in the background I've always been writing songs, and they just so happen to fit now into the folk/country genre. It wasn't really an active decision. I suppose I don't see that much difference between punk and folk except I was way more tired screaming in a punk band than I am now in Full Power Happy Hour!  Your album will be released on March 19, what's it called?  Full Power Happy Hour What influenced the sound and songwriting?  Friendships, growing up, getting rid of toxic people out of your life, nature, mental health, climate change, shit politicians. Musical influences include Joni Mitchell, The Clean, The Weather Station, The Pogues & Paul Kelly. How was the album written?  I wrote these songs a while ago, over about 8 years. A lot of them started off as poems then I put them to music, and played them solo for a while. When I formed the band, I just brought these songs to the rehearsal room, and we spent a year working through them, we were really focussed on working hard on the songs for as long as it took for us all to be happy with them.  Please tell us about the lyrical themes/threads for the album:  Hmm there's not really an overarching theme...I suppose what they have in common is that they all came about through my processing of various experiences of friendships, mental health issues, learning to grow as a person, and being absolutely sick and tired with the status quo in this country- the apathy and inaction on climate change, women's safety and First Nations rights. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with?  We recorded over a few weekends with Nell Forster at The Moon Room here in Brisbane/Meanjin. She honestly was kind of a producer too, she definitely gave us heaps of coaching during that time. Then we sent the tracks off to Chris Chetland, at Kog Studio in Aotearoa/New Zealand, who we got recommended by Holly Arrowsmith (who we played a gig with when she came here) as we really liked the sound of her album.  How did you approach the recording process?  We rehearsed for about a year and then when we thought we were happy with the songs, we went into the studio. Often you don't really know what a song sounds like until you hear it recorded, so there was some tweaking that happened with the help of Nell, who was kind of like our band coach for those weekends as well as recording engineer!  How did the band end up with two drummers in the ranks with one (Finn) taking up the tambourine/backing vocals role?  So Joe was already on board as the drummer, but as Finn is a mate of ours, we wanted to have him in the band too, I think he was originally gonna to just come along as a back up vocalist, but I think he needed something to do with his hands, so we thought he could play some extra percussion. I think a tambourine was all we could afford to buy at the time, so that's how he ended up with that role, and we haven't' really expanded since haha Your live shows are really fun with a lot of laughs, is this intentional or just the band's default demeanour?  We're just vibin. Who are you listening to at the moment?   The Stress of Leisure, Bad Sext, A Country Practice, Loulou, King Stingray, Madboots, Megan thee Stallion, JK-47, The Weather Station's new album Ignorance. What do you like to do away from music?  I'm at Uni studying Early Childhood education which I'm really liking, but I also like to go for walks to see some nature, reading books, eating food with friends, netflix & chill. You'll be playing in Ballarat and Melbourne this weekend, what do you most enjoy about playing interstate?  Playing to new people and making new friends, playing with bands we've never played with before, and just seeing what music scenes are like in different places, cold weather!  What's planned for 2021?  Getting this album out, recording some new stuff, touring interstate some more, and fingers crossed covid pending an Aotearoa/New Zealand tour later this year!  Favourite food and place to hangout?  Burritos in my house.

Full Power Happy Hour

Bill Jr. Jr.

Bill Jr. Jr.

Where are you currently based? Toronto, Ontario, Canada How did you first start playing music? I come from an incredibly musical family and in a way, music was a part of my life right from the beginning. I still have vivid memories of my mom singing in 5-part harmony with her brothers and sisters and father around campfires when I was very young and my parents singing to and with me even long before then. Music was a big part of my life until I started royal conservatory piano lessons, which honestly turned me away from it for a while, haha.  After a bit of time away from the rigidness of the lessons, I started to fall in love with playing songs by ear again and making things up on guitar and piano. This led to me eventually write my first songs. I loved the process and the outlet so much that I never stopped and haven’t looked back since. What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been? If Covid had to hit, it happened at the perfect time for me. I absolutely love performing live and miss it like crazy, but because of how often I was playing for people before Covid, I never took the time to finish a recording project. In the forced solitude and open time that the pandemic gave me, I finally finished my first EP. My days consist now of everything that’s involved with sharing the music I made and it’s an incredible feeling that I didn’t know I was missing.  Your debut EP 'Only Pieces of The Truth' will be released on March 12, what influenced the sound and songwriting? The songs on this EP were written over the past 6 years of my life as a performing artist. They explore a desire to deepen my relationships with the people in my life and with myself. Sonically, I was influenced by all of the music that has inspired me most throughout my life as a musician. I think listeners will be able to hear everything from my love of roots, electronic, orchestral and experimental music. I think all of those influences thrown into a mixing pot with who I am as a live performer, and tossed around within the boundaries of my simple home studio set up created the unique and eclectic sound of this EP. How did you go about writing Only Pieces of The Truth? Only Pieces of the Truth was lyrically inspired by a couple in my life who really love each other but are fighting through a distance that came with a build-up of little unresolved tensions over a significant period of time. While I can say what it is about with confidence now, this inspiration happened subconsciously, as almost all of the melodies and lyrics in this song came from an improvisation. I find that my favourite lyrics and melodies that I write come when I am able to get my brain out of the way and flow in an improvisation.  Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? I recorded and played all of the instruments myself in my home studio in Toronto, as well as a bit in Alberta while I was visiting family using my portable studio set up. The EP was then mixed by my friend Jason Dufour and mastered by Joao Carvalho. How did you approach the recording process? Each song on this EP came with a different approach. For example, Docks (the opening track), came together as a collage of improvised ideas. Nothing was pre-envisioned; it was all just done by playing with interesting delays and sounds, massaging them together and then improvising over the result. In contrast, I Don’t Want to Let You Go and Freedom (both of which I had been performing for quite a while before I brought them into the studio), were put together very intentionally with a clear vision in mind before laying down the first tracks. Only Pieces of the Truth was probably the most difficult. I must have produced more than 10 distinctly different versions of that song before I found one that felt right. What programs/instruments did you use? I primarily use Logic as my DAW and use software from UAD, Fabfilter and Soundtoys daily. In terms of instruments on this EP, I played a variety of guitars, percussion instruments and keys as well as many different software instruments ranging from pianos to synths that I created myself.  What does the EP mean to you? This one means a lot to me! It’s the first body of work that I created fully on my own. I am planning to explore collaboration with many different writers and producers in the future, but it will always be special to be able to look back and know that I started with something that was just me. With all of its flaws and imperfections, it’s a snapshot of who I am at this time in my life. I really hope that this music helps people find peace and vulnerability in themselves as they listen to it and that the songs become theirs now as much as they are mine. Who are you listening to at the moment? Right now, I can’t seem to turn off Leif Vollebekk’s music! His vibe is just perfectly complimenting the way I’ve been feeling lately. Other than that, I always love to hear songs from Matt Corby, Frank Ocean, Bon Iver, Labrinth, Jacob Collier and Novo Amor, just to name a few.  What do you like to do away from music? I love playing basketball! It’s been tough now that it’s winter and the gyms are closed for the pandemic. I’m itching to get back out when it all clears up. Other than that and music, my favourite thing to do is to be in beautiful places with people I love. Give me a campfire by a mountain lake, a guitar and my friends and family and I will die a happy man.  What's planned for 2021? I am actually just putting the finishing touches on another EP that I am planning to release soon after my first! After that, I hope the pandemic clears up so that I can sing with and for people again. I have so much pent-up performance energy. Feels like I could tour for a couple years straight now and not take it for granted. I hope that’s in the cards for this year or next! Favourite food and place to hangout? My favourite food right now is sushi and I love hanging out in this secluded spot by the water in Toronto where my friends and I go to have driftwood fires in the summer. I don’t want to say exactly where it is because for now, we seem to be some of the only people that know about it but if you ever come this way, we’d love to take you there!  https://www.jordanhartsound.com https://twitter.com/jordanhartsound https://www.instagram.com/jordanhartsound/ https://www.facebook.com/jordanhartsound

Jordan Hart

jofi

Jofi

Where are you currently based?  Locked down in Liverpool, baby.  How did Generation form?  We just fell into it, really. Music presented itself to us and we took to it like  fishes to water. We’re constantly changing.  What's been happening recently and how has your Covid  experience been?  We’ve just released a retrospective album with Tri-Tone - Full of teenage  angst and fast guitars. The whole covid thing has kind of put us on pause.  Gigs are looking *fingers crossed* like they may be happening again this  Summer, so we have that to look forward to, at least. Other than that  we’ve been writing. The sound has completely changed - we’re more  electronic now. Distorted saw synths, massive drum machines - that sort  of thing.   Your new mini album 'Suicidal Champagne' is out now,  what influenced the sound and songwriting?  It’s literally an album about us being dead young. We didn’t really think  about what it was about whilst we were making it, we probably didn’t even  know what music was back then. I guess it’s just about things we were  feeling at that time and the things every 17/18 year old goes through  (coping with becoming an adult by excessively drinking and partying). It’s  one big, self-indulgent party - and everyones invited.   How did the concept for the mini album come about? Drinking.  How did you go about writing the album? We write most days, so we just had loads of songs knocking about  with nothing to do but play them live (circa 2016), then Simon - who  we recently released the album with - approached us and threw us in  the studio. From there the songs just developed and became what  they are now.  Where and when did you record/produce/master and who  with?  It was in this lovely converted barn house in the countryside of Leeds  or something. There were two new foundland dogs (massive) that  would walk around the studio while you were tracking. Was a stay  over experience in the barn. I don’t think it’s there anymore. It was  with James Kenosha, who is a great producer and musician (he  played drums on the album also).   What programs/equipment did you use?  For all our demos we use Logic Pro X, but James probably used  Pro Tools, I can’t remember to be honest. In terms of gear, we  used all kinds. I remember putting my guitar through a vintage  Selmer bass cab, but that’s about it. The rest is clouded by red  wine and beer.   What did you find most challenging and rewarding during  the creation of Suicidal Champagne?  It’s always the vocals at the end. Trying to find the right tone for  deans voice. The most rewarding thing will probably happen  when we’re 40 and we listen back and go “ah remember that  time, we had a good time making that”.   Who are you listening to at the moment?  Loads of stuff. Our music taste has no range like. A lot of 90s rave  stuff, hip-hop, bit of industrial, bit of reggae/dancehall. A musical  cocktail of debauchery, really.   What do you like to do away from music? Tough question that one. All we really do is music. Feels like the  hobbies section on your CV this question. Should I put ‘Reading,  exercising…’  Urm, we do all kinds really. Mostly mad Sh** no one would believe or  even understand the reasons why. I guess we don’t either. Recently  got back into skating, which is a blast from the past.   What's planned for 2021?  HOPEFULLY, lots of gigs (toward the second half of the year). We’ve  been hard at work recording new songs as well, so there should be  some new music soon(ish).   Favourite food and place to hangout?  Tough one this ‘cos we’ve been in lockdown for like a year. I’d say Elif on  Lark lane provides the best scran. It’s a Turkish grill joint and it’s so good.  Favourite place to hang out right now is our mums conservatory aka the  beat laboratory.   wholovesthisgeneration.com  IG: @wholovesthisgeneration

Generation

Where are you currently based? Currently my kitchen table; I haven’t moved for a while. How did you first start playing music? I first started playing as an 8 year old because my brother was learning guitar and I wanted to do everything he did. I actually learnt the trumpet as my first instrument. I’m pretty crap now but it’s a cool party trick (and I really respect anyone who’s actually good at it). Where are you currently based and how has your Covid experience been?  I’m super lucky to be quite sheltered from the virus over here in WA but the few months we were locked down were definitely instrumental (haha) in getting this song to a happy place. Obviously covid sucks, but in a strange way I appreciate it for the time it gave me. Your debut single 'Full Grown' was released March 5, what influenced the sound and songwriting? The song itself was written a couple years ago though it has come a long way since then. Because I started it yonks ago the production is super influenced by the artists I was pumping at the time, mainly Panama and Roosevelt. The lyrics are based on a struggle of mine at the time, as I felt ill-equipped to enter a relationship.  How did you go about writing Full Grown? I actually started producing the beat on a family holiday in a hotel room, but as with most things I make I just went through a stupidly long loop of producing, taking it away and listening, writing down notes then coming back and making changes. The lyrics were the complete opposite and finished in one sitting though. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? All recording and producing by myself, in a number of places actually but none of them being a proper studio. Then the legend James Newhouse fattened it up with his master. What does Full Grown mean to you? It means having it all together. Bit of a myth really. I feel like a kid a lot and I’m okay to admit it; sometimes it’s great thing and it sometimes it kinda sucks. Who are you listening to at the moment? At the literal moment I am listening to Candid by Sevier; some cool Perth dudes who happen to also share my release date. I’ve been listening to a bunch of Perth folk lately, such as Michael Day, Jacob Wylde, Grievous Bodily Calm and Kyle Charles Hall, among others. What do you like to do away from music? Mainly eating, reading, date nights and walks with my dog. Also love a good game of bananagrams, though I wouldn’t say I’m good at it.  What's planned for 2021? More releases, more eating, reading, date nights, walkies and defs more bananagrams so I can actually get good. Also very very keen to start playing live real soon around Perth! Favourite food and place to hangout? Always big on Mexican food. There’s a taco joint literally 2mins walk from our front door called Hermanos En Cantina which is kinda the go-to hangout for us. Big recommend. https://soundcloud.com/rhyanlj/full-grown/s-YZKjGTQkXsN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rhyan_lj/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musicbyRHY/

RHY

Bridget Allan

Bridget Allan

Where are you currently based? Perth, Western Australia How did you first start playing music? I started making it after years of story writing and eventually poetry, but my first opportunity to really play live was thanks to GOAT 6K at The Bird. What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been? Covid slowed down the release of many visual stuff like the OUTLAW! Music Video for one, but gave me time to create heaps of innovative music and really experiment. I made heaps of music and watched a lot of movies too, which are usually my biggest inspiration for music Your single and video 'Outlaw' are out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? The whole track and visuals were inspired by a short story I wrote ages ago called You Can’t Run From The Outlaw! where Wesley Black was a character who had to overcome vices and a bad conscience to become the best version of himself. The visual themes include a masked gang, a masquerade mask and a passenger seated Wesley, all working towards his journey in becoming the Outlaw- the alpha male, the best version of me How did you go about writing Outlaw? Inspired heavily by my short story, I wrote OUTLAW! as something positive and aggressive. It’s a track that reflects my un-anxious side, to say the least, which in a sense is the polar opposite to RED! This song is about achieving your highest heights and challenging yourself to the fullest. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who with? As I do with most of my tracks, I scout beats from a collection of Soundcloud trap producers. Once leased, I take my stems down to Shake Down Studios and record it, and then take it down to Boy Banks who co-produced and mixed and mastered this one. He is going to be mixing my entire EP, he really knows my sound. How did you approach the recording process? A lot of tea and a lot of energy. I rewatched Eyes Wide Shut before I recorded it, because that was such a big influence on this track, and helped me get into the whole Wesley Black character- I brought a lot of rage and energy to the session, and went hard on the ad-libs What influenced the video concept? The video was mainly inspired by my short story I wrote in my late teens about Wesley Black and the Outlaw, a neo-Western, where Wesley Black succumbs to his vices before turning around and standing on his own two feet. It’s just a cool revenge story I wrote, and a lot of visuals were also inspired by Eyes Wide Shut Where did you film and who did you work with? Justplay Media shot this one, and I directed and edited it myself using my storyboard I created a while back. We went all over the place, the red room scenes were shot in a sea container in Rockingham, the tea party were shot at a friends parents house and the horse scenes were shot at Sandeli Park. Everyone was super helpful. How has the creation of the video differed from your previous video's? In a lot of ways, it’s tied together. OUTLAW! features a lot of references to previous music videos, but it feels like a whole new level. I tried a lot of guerilla effects like crashing a car and using car mounts, but the lighting and camera movements feel much more cinematic, and the storyline works really well. Who are you listening to at the moment? A lot of Dominic Fike, Smino and Travis Scott. A strange mix, but they all offer something I’m really liking at the moment. What do you like to do away from music? Write stories, watch films and watch wrestling. All of these things inspire my music in the long run anyway. What's planned for 2021? A project I’m super proud of. The hardest tracks I can possibly do- it’s a whole new sound and i’m aiming to make a new subgenre off the backend of it. After that, I wanna try releasing something acoustic and raw. A whole variety this year. Favourite food and place to hangout? Haloumi cheese is the best. I love Asian and European food, Formosa Garden is sick too. Wesley is playing has a show this Friday 5th at Milk Bar in Perth FB - https://www.facebook.com/wesleyblacktv/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/wesleyblacktv/ TWITTER - https://twitter.com/wesleyblacktv

Wesley Black

David M. Western

David M. Western

Where are you based?  I’m from a small town of Pravdinsk (Kaliningrad region, Russia). At the moment I live in one of the districts of Kaliningrad.   What influenced the sound behind your debut EP on Soma Records, titled Rave Is Dead? I started working on the release in the first wave of covid, when we were all at home, it was spring, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was warm enough and the windows of the house were constantly opened. A public warning system was often triggered on the street, where police told everyone through the loud speakers to stay at home and follow the rules. At that time only food stores and pharmacies worked. Everything was not clear, what's next?! This made me angry. But at the same time I had a lot of free time and was locked in 4 walls. It all pressed psychologically, I wanted to destroy these walls. So I began to write this EP.   What inspired the title of the EP? Rave Is Dead is a kind of "scream of despair". We're all locked up, the rave is out of breath and needs a new impulse. Hope it happens soon. Very soon ...   What is your creative process like and how much did lockdown influence this? At that time, nothing distracted me. I devoted most of my time to music, so I could distract myself from everything that was happening around. Only occasionally I watched TV series or my brother and I went into the woods to the old broken bridge so that the police would not catch us and issue a fine, then it was impossible to leave the house, and there we listened to new demos through small speakers. Then we discussed them. Sounds weird, but it was also a weird time.   How did you approach the recording and production process for the Rave Is Dead EP? When I sit down to work, I immerse myself in it. Sometimes I don't even hear when my family members call me from the next room. I have a laptop, sound card, microphone and headphones at my disposal. I record a lot of live sounds; how the car brakes outside the window or for example, the metallic sound of a pan, a lot of things. Then you process it all and choose the best moments. I experiment a lot.   Have you always been a fan of Soma Records? Yes, I've been following the label for a long time. And to be honest, I couldn’t even imagine that my tracks someday will be released on this label. I am very happy.   When did you first start playing music and how did this evolve into electronic music? It was about 2006, I don't remember exactly. I was in high school and began to make the first steps in creativity. I was listening to drum'n'bass and started to write it. Over time tastes and quality changed and in the end I came to the music that I make now.   Who would you say are your biggest musical influences? This is my brother. It was he who "hooked" me on music: The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, etc. I fell in love with this music.   Once the world can dance again, where are you most excited to play? Let me dream a little. I haven't traveled outside the country for a long time. Now it has become much more difficult, but I really hope that this is all temporary. I would like to visit and perform in cities such as London, Berlin, Amsterdam and many others.   What does the rest of 2021 hold for Namesis? New releases, new collaborations, preparing a live performance and that's not all. Soon you will definitely hear and see everything yourself!

Namesis

Sarah Jane is a prolific Alt-Rock, Indie singer, songwriter from Sydney, Australia who has amassed a huge online following. ‘Lately’ is the first single from her new EP and is out now.  With over 290,000 subscribers and 30 million views on YouTube it would be accurate to call the young musician a viral sensation.  The new EP follows two solo albums “Absence’, an acoustic album released in 2019, and the album ‘Tainted Timeline” released late in 2020. Sarah Jane has released two full-length records with her band ‘The Violet Stones’ over the same period. Sarah Jane has over 80,000 streams on her single ‘Backwards’, over 10,000 streams on both ‘Sleepwalking’ and ‘Control’ on Spotify and has been played on Home & Hosed on Triple J. Sarah Jane – ‘‘Lately’ is about the anxiety felt when you feel like you’re not needed anymore in a relationship. Even when you know it’s in your head, it’s hard to bring yourself out of it. Tying in with the video, it shows the emptiness and the dark emotions that come with anxiety.” Sarah played and recorded all the instruments on Lately. The track was mixed/mastered by George Pauley. Where are you currently based?  I’m currently based in the Inner West of Sydney! I just moved to this area in January  How did you first start playing music?  I’ve always had an interest in music but it wasn’t until my dad pushed me to learn piano and over the years I slowly moved over to singing, guitar & drums.  What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been?  This past year has really given me some time to just buckle down and record as much as I can. Sometimes it’s hard to balance playing shows & recording so I’m not sure if I would have released an album and be able to work on another EP if Covid didn’t happen. I did miss out on playing some really cool shows mid 2020 which is such a shame as I love playing live but there was a silver lining.  Your new single 'Lately' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting?  I wrote the song in March of 2020 and I had been listening to a lot of PJ Harvey and Hum at the time & what I love a lot about those bands are the dynamics and production. I guess I have been trying to match the vibe of PJ Harvey’s ‘Rid of Me’ & Hum’s ‘You’d prefer an Astronaut’.  Where and when did you record/produce/master?  I recorded everything myself in my (my dad’s) small home studio around September 2020. My dad’s a drummer so he has all the equipment which I’m super lucky to have access to as well as a bunch of recording gear. I also played all the instruments myself as it’s so much easier to come up with parts as I know what my vision is & there’s no messy communication.  I also got really into different recording techniques & I originally wanted to mix it myself but I decided I shouldn’t put too much pressure on myself. George Pauley ended up mixing and mastering it!  Please tell us about how the concept for the video came about:  The song is mainly about unreasonable anxiety and feeling as though you’re not needed anymore in a relationship. The way I see it connect to the video is that is a representation and visualisation of anxiety. Being in one room, just indulging in the feeling and then walking out like nothing ever happened can just visualise some anxieties. You know it’s unreasonable but you’re still anxious!  We just wanted to portray a certain set of emotions that were connected to the songs meaning.  Where and when did you film and who did you work with?  The whole of the video (direction, concept, editing, filming etc.) was done by Jack Barratt. I wanted to have one less thing to worry about when it came to the release of the song so he basically come up with everything haha We filmed it in around 4 hours at a budget hotel in the Inner West. It was a tiny room and even smaller bathroom, but we made it work!  What did you find most challenging and rewarding during the creation on the video?  100% the shower scene. It was so uncomfortable getting wet in clothes and it was even worse in the last scene where I had to walk out whilst I was still wet. It was so cold! But the shower shot is definitely my favourite so it was worth it! Please tell us about any upcoming shows:  I have a show this Sunday (28th Feb) at The Factory Theatre with our friends Monstahouse and Jerranis supporting. This will be my first live show where I have a band backing me. I’m so excited to finally play my songs live and loud! How did you prepare for live shows?  I’m definitely a stress head when it comes to playing shows. I’m always scared of running late or forgetting how to play the songs so I definitely prepare by getting there early and just having some time to chill beforehand & making sure my voice is warmed up & drinking plenty of water.  You have an EP on the way, what can you tell us?  I’ve been nonstop working on new music! This EP will be a little bit different from my last album. It’s less full-on grunge, more light, a little post-rock, think Mogwai meets Failure...  Who are you listening to at the moment?  I’m listening to a lot of Failure, OH and Hayley Williams just released a new album and it’s been on repeat ever since. Some Queens of the Stone Age, A LOT of Radiohead (as usual) & Porcupine Tree. What do you like to do away from music?  This is sort of lame but I love planning things & cleaning (super lame I know but it’s therapeutic!). I also just like to chill and watch TV shows, play games with friends or go thrift shopping.  Favourite food and place to hangout?  I love going to Newtown, so many yummy vegan restaurants to choose from. Gotta love Gigi’s Pizza!  Lately Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0-5IrBVTY Linktree https://linktr.ee/sarahmusicjane

Sarah Jane

I live in Thornbury, Melbourne/Naarm. My mum used to play in bands. She was a huge rock chick so she inspired me big time. I listened to all the music that she listened to so Norah Jones was actually my idol when I was super young. I loved to dance when I was younger too so I ended up doing musical theatre classes to get my music hit. COVID was a particularly grounding time for me. I had been writing for over a year before I released by debut single in April 2020. In terms of music, the stillness of last year enabled me to focus intently on each release. I held a lot of space for growth. Vigor is all about life force and energy. I wrote a poem last year and it was about unlocking that potential, reaching that high whether it be through your own doing or by being around someone that has that affect on you. I wanted to write a song that encapsulated that feeling.  I caught up with my producer and he had put down some nice chords. We played around with this drum beat and slowed it down until it almost flickered like energy itself. That’s when I remembered the poem I wrote and it was pretty wild how seamlessly it fit into the track. I recorded the song towards the end of last year in Melbourne/Naarm. It was actually recorded in my producer Jahn Rae’s home studio. It was mastered by Becki Whitton. This whole process felt effortless. The vocals you hear in the track are the very first vocals I ever put down for it. I grew up doing musical theatre and have gigged across Melbourne for years so I love singing live. I always think my best work happens in my first few takes. Of course sometimes it can take a little longer but I love hearing the emotion and authenticity in vocals so once I’m trying too hard – I can hear it and I don’t like it. Vigor however, came together very quickly.  Music changes depending on my mood. If I’m cooking I listen to Four Tet, when I’m relaxing I listen to Rhye, when I want to move I listen to Kllo. If I’m feeling reminiscent, I will listen to Bon Iver or Augie March. Away from music, I’m quite a Nonna! I love to cook, cuddle my dog Bentley, knit and do all kinds of arts and crafts. My partner Lochlan is an artist so we spend a lot of time manifesting, thinking and creating. I’ve got a fig tree in my back yard so spending my weekends making jam at the moment. I also love being outdoors, going for long bush walks or going away in our van.  I have lots of fun things coming up. Planning an EP release at the moment for this year, I’ll share some more info on that soon but at the moment it is still a work in progress. Other than that, writing and gigs. It has been really hard during COVID to go out and sing live and forward plan for that kind of thing, but I am super hopeful for this year. Favourite food: I’m Italian so I can’t go past pizza or pasta. Luckily we’re spoiled for choice close to home but nothing beats a home-made meal at Nonna’s house. Favourite place to hang out: Nonna’s house. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_jiordy/Jiordy Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5jkxZg4bKJM4PEUW29fy7f Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jiordy.music Twitter: https://twitter.com/_jiordy

Jiordy

Where are you currently based? I'm based in London (UK) How did you first start playing music? I used to play the guitar when I was 12, I was in love with that instrument and after few years I start recording myself and then I put all myself into the electronic music world. What's been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been so far? This year was so hard! Nobody was expecting something like this, I feel so sorry for all those people who have lost someone ; For me was a great great year about my music,  cause I had a lot of time for give a shape to all my ideas, I finished my album and I'm really proud for this.  About my personal life as well, I had a lot more time for listen music, enjoy my time with my girlfriend and more, but of course I want to come back to a normal life. Your latest album 'Plastika | Music for a Film ' is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting? Yes, the album was released the 9th of January, there is a lot of different influences inside, I took a lot of inspiration from the album 'Anima' by Thom Yorke, from the first time I heard it I felt in love with that album, then clearly I am very influenced by all the music I listen to,  But when I work on a record I try to listen to new things as little as possible so as not to be influenced to much and always be original. How did you go about writing Plastika? I started writing it before the lockdown and the pandemic, I had may ideas but I didn't have the material time to finish it, then as we all know there was this bad period and I found the time to immerse myself in the production of the album, I had 3 songs already done, and I started from those songs to build the mood of the work, it was easy, I had all the ideas in my mind, I just gave them shape, I really like the final result. Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with? I produce all the album in my flat in London, I start around February 2020 and I finished it in December 2020, I did everything by myself, production and mixing, the master was made by a really friend of mine in his studio in London, I also worked with the artist Alex Kuznetsov for the artwork of the album, I wanted to give to the album a surrealistic mood, and with Alex's paint is absolutely perfect. What programs/equipment did you use? For 'Plastika | Music for a film ' I used Mixcraft 9 pro studio, A great software! My computer, audio Interface and headphones, then synthetisers, sampler, midi controller and a lot of VST and field recordings. How did you come to release with American label Cleopatra Records? It was a coincidence, I was working for a song with the great artist ' Prison Escapee ' and we start chatting, after few months he signed for Cleopatra Records, so I decided to send to them the demo of the album, they loved it, and here we are! Is a great honour for me to be part of this great label!  Please tell us about the sadness around your music: There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy . The sadness for me is the purest and real feeling, there is no lies in the sadness, I think happiness can be fake sometimes, the sadness no, is real!  Then after all the world where we live is a bit sad most of the time, for this reason I want my music as a mirror, a mirror for reflect this life seen with my eyes. Who are you listening to at the moment? I would need more then an hour for write all the music I listen to hahah. Radiohead, Tim Hecker, Eartheather, Caterina Barbieri, Alessandro Cortini, Saffronkeira, Sigur Ros, Nils Frahm, Deru, Four tet and in the last months I felt in love with Pluhm, an Italian artist, unbelievably good. What do you like to do away from music? I would like to be a painter! I paint sometimes, but I'm not so good hahaha, I love art and I love litterateur and movies, I would lo to work as a director as well. What's planned for 2021? Hope this pandemic is going to finish, I really want to go somewhere around, maybe Japan or USA, but even some nice place in Europe will be ok, and of course I'm already

Michael it’z

Ameli Paul

Ameli Paul

CORDUROY SPACESHIP returns for 2021 with new single 'I DON'T CRY'

CORDUROY SPACESHIP

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