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| Back cover - image courtesy Guy Mercier |
I have a new record "Diamond Eye" out on the exemplary French label Bruit Direct Disques. My sincere gratitude to BDD CEO Guy Mercier for making this happen. What a champ!
As with its predecessor "11 Easy Pieces", this album was assembled by gathering a selection of recordings made at home and on holidays over a few years, in this instance mostly between 2006-2008 (with a couple of outliers in 2009/10).
Perhaps because this collection has gathered a sprinkling of dust, listening to it now has the same effect for me as flipping through an old photo album - I can generally remember the circumstances of each recording, including the music I was listening to and even the books I was reading. In their own small way, these pieces mark my passage on the planet during that time. Vertical lines descending.
"Sans Souci" is named after a 1950s fibro beach house on North Stradbroke Island, where I holidayed with my family over the Christmas break in 2008 - a week of surfing, eating and sleeping in the sea breeze. On returning to Brisbane on New Years eve I recorded this piece while still lost in a holiday reverie. It appeared on a Room40 compilation not long after; returned now to the pages from which it was lifted. And so I could continue for each track on the album - elsewhere a nod to Colin MacCahon, several other location specific odes and generally just enjoying listening to those Portasound tones. But enough you say!
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| Live at Fabrique, May 2008. Photo: Tom Hall |
I'll also have copies shortly in Brisbane and aim to ship on 1 February.
You are welcome to listen and pre-order via my Bandcamp page or use the link below. You'll receive a download whichever method you use. Hey - thanks for reading!
