“Lost in space and time in conversations between Marshall in Bangkok, Thailand and myself in Brooklyn, NSW. Talking about creating some tunes for a re-imagined Ya Ya Choral, hell yeah and mostly no. Urghhh, I always hated that name, but alas, at the time we maintained democracy. They say tinkily bonk and an ironic disposition is dangerous for your health. Love lost but never forgotten. Together we gazed into the abyss and Nietzsche winked back, oh well - lets just go on - life is just so much fun.”

The original intention was to entertain the idea that this could possibly be another ‘re-imagined Ya Ya Choral’ (YYC) project.

YYC had been in hibernation, since Fiona and Michael pulled the plug in 1994. Prior to this YYC had been through a number of guises, from Tinkily Bonk in 1982, to art damaged Motown, to Hush and TMG inspired punk/metal to buzz pop in the 1990’s, each time always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We were thinking of doing something more doom tempo, improvised and perhaps with potential to be theatrical or even art damaged cabaret.

Instead, we ditched the clutter, stripped it back and just embraced the doom tempo and started to lament over friends, family and...  

released December 9, 2021

0 TEE - MARSHALL 10E. I Swallowed A Fly

Music to do the housework to ... Rickety tickety noise machines, sauerkraut lifeforms (mostly Faust I think)and some interstellar outer space scenery recorded between 2019 and 2022. A collision of two incomplete projects 'Space Therapy Robinson' and 'Still Life' that I have been neglecting and procrastinating on for a while. Continuing my love of crappy pulp fiction and Soviet era sci-fi art the cover artwork is some public domain image from the 1960's, which i have tried unsuccessfully to source. 'The Soft Touch of Nano-Mary' is a bonus track breaks from the theme of this collection; designed to give the ears a bit of a respite; until the hidden track usurps the good work.

9. Pi Pi 4.5

8. Centuries Of Blah [CENTURI BLAH]

7. Spray It Dont Say It[PP3]

6. FFG722Tidy

5. Stealth Makes Waste [Stealth  WARRIEWOOD 5TH DECEMBER]

4. Saint Alpha Trumpet [STR ALPHA COMP EDit (edited7 Min Version)]

3. The Ping Stars [PING STAR - 05db]

2. Depth Charges[Depth Charger FINALedit]

1. Deutronium [ENDEDIT}

A Cloakroom Assembly (aka ACA) produces 'sound story' projects and gentle ‘time stands still - machines’. I was never very good at - or - even very interested in explaining what I was doing As a teenager I enjoyed a secret place for making ‘private noise’ which began with collaborations with my sister Angela as a teenager in the early 1970’s, as I tried to re-construct the Beatle’s “Revolution 9” and assemble ‘mock-Stockhausen’ sound stories. I was always impressed by the sense of ‘place/situation’ and ‘narrative/people’ in the Beatles Revolution 9 and the shape of sound as ‘time stood still’ in the work of Eno’s ‘Onland’ and Tangerine Dream’s ‘Zeit’. A Cloakroom Assembly in the late 1970s at the same time as I co-founded M. Squared label. In 1995 I retreated from making public noise and touring overseas, into family and academic life, yet still I was driven to assemble hours and hours of unreleased sound stories. The sound stories began increasingly longer, more as ‘time stands still – machines’. I would frequently break them down and recycle and re assemble and overlay. The titles are unimportant. 

Members:
A Cloakroom Assembly is mostly Michael Tee/Coffey. Keyboards, Guitars, Noises, Loops etc.. ... no sequencers or real time correction

Influences:
Everything I have ever heard I borrow. Even if on a subliminal level. I refuse/reject the idea of an experimental 'genre'. Experimental is a process everyone uses. This Cloakroom stuff is not just an experiment in 'sounds' but also in arrangements of notes.

Sounds Like:
Fripp and Eno, Fripp's Soundscapes (cept for his annoying use of bell/piano sounds) early Tangerine Dream (up to Phaedra, especialy Zeit), the bits in the fade ins/outs of songs, eg the ending of Strawberry Fields Forever, or the drone at the end of Rip Off by T.Rex, or that middle bit in Close to the Edge, Harold Budd (without beats), Electric Miles Davis without the trumpet, tummy rumbles lying in bed at night, that funny ringing sound in your ears, listening to that sound in the distance.

For more info and dialogue email Michael Tee/Coffey at michaelcoffey2016@gmail.com

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