Keith Holyoak reads his translations of the classical Chinese poet Li Bai with accompaniment by an ancient Chinese instrument, the Qin.
CD and download include over 20 translations with musical accompaniment.
Listen to Keith Holyoak's Poems of Li Bai
Led by the songwriter Neil Holyoak, hi, lonely oak could be compared to Hayden, Elliot Smith, or Morrissey. The works are haunting, beautifully melancholic and truthful. Deeply personal and subversive themes are intertwined with folk tales and acoustic ballads....MORE
Hi Lonely Oak’s debut 6-track EP. Recorded on a portable recording apparatus in various corners of the country, All These Mountains.. is a personal look into the workings of 20yr old singer- songwriter Neil Holyoak with minimal accompaniments by various instrumentalists including cellists trumpeters and electronic artists
Listen to Hi, Lonely Oak
In the early 2000s avant guarde singer-songwriter Kahl Monticone joined together with a band of prodigy musicians to produce this highly unique but listenable form of song. Released for the first time in the US by Broken Electric. Preview available at myspace.com/brokenelctricrecords
"It's quite catchy, in a "Berlin" meets the GoBetweens meets the sound of Ian Curtis hanging himself kind of way, and it's enough to keep you company at 4 am on a Thursday morning when the candles have burnt low..." - Geoff Parkes, Logged Off
Listen to Blue Wine
Airom Bleicher
Bleicher is a cognitive-expressionist. He creates sound art performances with a highly conceptual component while still retaining a form of emotive musicality.
THE ABATTOIR MOVIE SOUNDTRACK
Airom Bleicher and Galen's soundtrack to the independent film The Abattoir.
Listen to The Abattoir Motion Picture Soundtrack
CD $14
Release date: March, 2006
" I constructed this sound piece so that if played over itself at particular points it would be heard in harmony ...Because the pieces are different in length each cycle gradually deviates from the original synchronization and produces entirely unique harmonies and interactions."
Purchase includes two signed CDR Nodes that were originaly presented at the Kristi Engle gallery as part of the BALS exhibition. Play each node simultaneously on two separate CD players for a continually changing cycle of sound interactions.
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Release date: April 1st, 2006
CDR release. A jazz flutist, classical cellist and Middle Eastern violinist were blindfolded and placed in different corners of the Kristi Engle art gallery and improvised to Bleicher's Nodes which was played to them on headphones. They couldn't hear each other and the audience couldn't hear the Nodes composition.
Listen to Three Blind Nodes
Purchase CD $14
Emerging from the midst of the post-grunge void, the Sidewalk Regrets possessed a raw intensity that could tear your heart in 2, but at the same time was strangely empowering. This release is an important missing chapter in the Australian underground music history.
