Eugene Carchesio
Everything Takes Time / Time Takes Everything (cdr)
Lovingly reissued cd edition of the Kindling classic from the good souls
at Naturestrip. “I'm walking along a leafy alley in a quiet suburb
of Paris in the early morning sun listening to Leaves…a quiet,
delicate communion of man and nature, modest in its scope and touching
in its directness and simplicity. Quite simply the only thing to listen
to on a day like this.” – Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic
$15
The audio accompaniment to Mr E’s 2006 exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, this disc features twenty delicious computer compositions that celebrate the wonder of stereo sound. “Everything Takes Time…” is a rhythmic tapestry of minimal electronic sound. Slip your headphones on, close your eyes and experience a spatial head reconfiguration. Aural ping pong.
$15
Drift (cdr)
North South (dbl 3” cdr)
Mr Busby honed his craft on this first full-lengther - a collection of cinematic trumpet compositions bathed in pools of winter sun. Melancholic bliss that sinks to the deep end with the time-freeze sculpture “Glacier”.
$15
This second album is “split into two discreet movements separated
on two 3" disks. 'North' is made up of predominantly gestural percussive
pieces. Slow chimes and pulses drifting across space. 'South' is a more
harmonic enterprise, with layered tones and trumpet passages creating
a beautiful eerie melancholia that shifts between an icy chill and a deep
warm glow. Packaged in an art card gatefold designed by the artist.“
- Psuedo Arcana
$20
Palace (cd)
White Man at the Door (cd)
Marking a fresh exploratory period for these Brisbane stalwarts – long-tone studies from a dark cathedral. “Recorded in November 2003 in the Ballroom of the Pink Palace, Brisbane, the five-song set opens with a tide of bowed, plucked and phased sounds from guitar, organ and percussion. These don’t so much build into a wall of drone as present a solar system of bright lights simultaneously flickering above your third eye.” – Sean Rabin, The Weekend Australian
$15
Acoustic trio recordings from 2002 that rework some pre-war blues favourites.
"The primitive outsider-blues improv of Ragtime Frank and John Henry
Calvinist sounds like music unraveling itself until it’s stripped
down to some base primal urge. When The Lost Domain take ‘Two Trains
Running” and deconstruct it down to a murmured , spoken narrative,
accompanied by rustling percussion…you might feel this is the absolute
limit of the blues, reinvented with the most basic tools.” –
Tom Ridge, The Wire
$15
Need for a Crossing: A New New Zealand Vol 1. (cd)
Add to Friends (cd)
Way-handsome collection from the Table of the Elements folks, with beautifully packaged booklet of old road photographs salvaged from Ministry of Transport files. Features all your favourites from across the pond – Birchville Cat Motel, Pumice, Greg Malcolm, Antony Milton, Peter Wright - and a curveball Kindling entry from expat Leighton Craig both solo and with Mr Pumice in ‘Blowfly Saint’.
$20
Debut compilation from sister label to Room 40, with a healthy Japanese pop bias. 18 artists featured including Eddie Marcon, Lullatone, Ytamo, and Kindling favourites Tenniscoats. The Deadnotes make a suitably brief appearance with “Orange Trumpet”.
$15
The Sun & Earth Together (cd)
Our Californian friend Loren Chasse presents a beautifully constructed album of aural sculptures that drift in the space between. Fragments of lost melody are bowed and plucked into being, before floating away on a stream of harmonious drone. This is a refined and crafted work by an artist on top of his game.
$15