lutruwita/Tasmania
Track: lutruwita/Tasmanian band Meres have a thundering ‘Ocean View’ replete with a cathartic passion, ahead of new album.
Straight out of lutruwita/Tasmania, Meres today release the blistering no-holds barred track ‘Ocean View’: a thoroughly cathartic and enjoyable blast of punky pop powered by a wall of crashing guitars and the scintillating vocals of Mary Shannon. The guitars scythe their way into the consciousness and the rhythm section thunders like an out of control …
News: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise storm back with announcement of new album ‘The Warning Birds’ and unveil the haunting single ‘Hole In The Sky’.
There has been a very long build up to the release of EWAH and the Vision of Paradise‘s (EVoP) second album, ‘The Warning Birds’, delayed by births, deaths and of course the horrific pandemic. We have been buoyed, however, by a drip filter of brilliant singles from the band ever since the release of ‘Play …
Album Review: Ben Salter’s ‘twenty-one words for loss’ is a stark and elegant paean to transience and loss: as beautiful and raw as the land it was created in.
Hobart/nippaluna resident Ben Salter today releases his epic treatise on the topic of grief, loss and the vicissitudes of aging, ‘twenty-one words for loss’. The entire album was conceived, written and recorded over two days in April earlier this year at Hobart’s landmark Museum of New and Modern Art (MONA) during Salter’s six month residency/installation. …
Track: nipaluna/Hobart based Ben Salter releases a magnificent, evocative single ‘bereavement’ in advance of new album announced for September.
Book-ended with the rolling ocean waves on a beach, and recorded in nipaluna/Hobart’s magnificent Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), the single ‘bereavement’ by musical polymath Ben Salter encapsulates something of the natural beauty and rough-hewn chill of the southern isle. A brief but evocative piano piece, Salter’s voice is soft and almost broken, …