A Guide To Three Saints

In the first of a few posts about recent "underground" Australian releases, I thought I'd focus on something local. Affiliated with Room40, Brisbane-based cassette label A Guide To Saints presented their first 3 releases recently, the first in a series entitled "Cassette Diaries". It features contributions from Brisbane's Heinz Reigler (Not From There/Nightstick), northern New South Wales' electronic collective Tralala Blip, as well as an international drone flavour from American Rachel Evans AKA Motion Sickness Of Time Travel.

The process is borne out of a series of momentary musics, recordings made in a short period of time - from a day to roughly a week. Motion Sickness Of Time Travel's Traces offers two trance-like pulse of electronic light, Evans eschewing more affronting sonics for something richer and altogether more benign. Reigler's Survey #2 (One Thousand Dreams I Never Had) is an aural document of his time spent hibernating in a wooden cabin in the Austrian Alps, and as such is the most "linear" of the pieces. Tralala Blip rarely have a template, yet the album title Submarine Love Songs rings pretty true to these warped tales of love and woe.

Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Colour Changing Eyes

Heinz Reigler - Dissolve
Heinz Reigler - Ascent (Vollmond II)
Heinz Reigler - Sleepwalker

Tralala Blip - Angry Ghosts

You can grab the bundle here. A Guide To Saints is guaranteeing a consistent flow of releases in the near future, so expect to hear more from them very soon.

In A Room Of Concentric Circuits

A great little endeavour, Concentric Circuits is Room40 and The Queensland Conservatorium in conjunction with Crossbows – A Festival of Small Ensembles. The final program includes the likes of Dot.AY, Hunz, Anonymeye, Hugh Francis, Eugene Carchesio, Joel Stern/ Ross Manning, Primitive Motion, Tralala Blip, aa-cell, Botborg, Timothy Tate, and N4rgh1l3 all storming the Queensland Conservatorium on Brisbane's Southbank over May 11-13. The project is free and aims to deliver some of the most exciting electronic leaning acts from Brisbane and beyond. The three evenings of sonic drifts; from chiptune to audio visual psychedelia.

In its inauguration in 2012, the Crossbows Festival is directed at showcasing the work of small ensembles. In its programming, Room40 is taking an open approach towards exploring the notion of ensembles, with first announcement featuring the feedback chambers of Anonymeye; power duo dynamics of Primitive Motion; the multi-sensorial collaboration of AV ensemble Botborg, as well as installation works from Eugene Carchesio and Lawrence English.

For full program details and artist information, see here.

And to celebrate this awesome initiative, here is a new track from Anonymeye! See you there.

Anonymeye - Rendering (All Alone In The Moonlight)

Frank Fairfield Fiddles; Anonymeye's Adroit Anontendres

I have a couple of juicy little tidbits coming from local muso/promoter/tech wizard/all round good guy Andrew Tuttle to throw your way today.

Firstly he is organising a tour for the amazing young American bluegrass/old-time musician Frank Fairfield in December. He's going to be playing Meredith Festival and eight headline shows along the East Coast in December, including shows in Brisbane (Syncretism at Judith Wright Centre on Thurs 15/12, supported by Ryan Francesconi [USA, Drag City label, member of Joanna Newsom's band and arranger of her last album. Show is a
co-presentation with Tuttle's label Room40) and Gold Coast (The Sound Lounge on Fri
16/12, supported by Laneway from the Coast, and Anonymeye). Fairfield, impossibly young in comparison to his age-old sermons on life and the wilderness from a bygone Southern era, released Out On The Open West, which really showcases this burning talent. There's heaps
of tour info available at www.micronationstours.com.

Frank Fairfield - Poor Old Lance


The second piece of info surrounds Tuttle's solo project, Anonymeye. He recently released Anontendre (on Room40's avant-pop offshoot, Someone Good). He may be a great ambassador for experimental music from all over the world, but what he creates individually is something to behold. Using his usual (don't confuse with traditional) template of acoustic guitar, signal processing, synthesisers, and effects units, Anontendre is a work of art, an ambient sojourn into the off-kilter world that lies beneath the cosmopolis of everyday life, its gentle folk inflections augmented by the digital intrusions. Its a fantastic listen - a melodious composition that marries varying sonic realms with relative ease, creating a gossamer waterfall of elegiac soundwaves. You can grab it from the Room40 store here.

Anonymeye - Federation