Megan Alice Clune is a musician, composer and artist based in Eora (Sydney). Her recent release, If You Do, became an album for solo voice and an ensemble of technologies. An album about contorting the body (voice) through time (rhythm, pulse), repetition and form. The work is nostalgic for past futures: wishing for the technological optimism of the late 70’s and early 80’s.
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Sydney band The Forresters devise new ways to blend folk, rock and pop into their narrative of Americana, with a healthy dose of power pop. Their latest album Something to Give delivers a treasure trove of melodies, lovingly mixed by legendary US indie producer, Mitch Easter. Plenty of great tunes on this episode with tracks from Dominic Breen, Georgia State Line, Corrina Repp and much more.
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New sounds, new paths, new ways to relax. Join me on the Quiet Space….
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On this episode we focus on an excellent recent release on the Shimmering Moods imprint. BON is a production, composition, writing, and art partnership by Yerosha Windrich and Alex Morris. Filmed in the pairs London studio, ‘Pantheon’ comes as a visual album created as an ode to nature. The images glitch between altered perceptions and the internal worlds all around us, and half remembered clips from a fragmented timeline collide with the brains desire to ‘make sense’ of things.
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More crate digging gold from the excellent Analog Africa label, this time with a focus on Cameroon. Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper recording facilities, and the process of committing your song to tape could become a whole adventure unto itself. Despite the myriad difficulties involved in the simple process of making and releasing a record, the musicians of Yaoundé’s underground music scene left behind an extraordinary legacy of raw grooves and magnificent tunes.
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