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Blue Divers II was recorded at various home studios by the different performers of the ever-evolving coastal collective Blue Divers. The album is performed by Myles Myjavek, Ashley Bundang, Lehmann B. Smith, Jack Saltimaris and Alec Marshall. The recordings started with impromptu collaborations in Marshall’s living room in Thirroul, before being sent through the modern marvels of the internet across the Northern Rivers, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria, and finally back to the New South Wales South Coast, where the record was picked up by Marshall and assembled into its finished whole. Myles plays percussion and flute, Lehmann plays clarinet, Ashley plays vibraphone and various keyboard instruments, with Marshall bringing up the rear on guitar, bass, percussion, piano and keyboards.

Alec Marshal says of the lead single, 'Later' --

“This track features Myles, Ashley and myself. On the recording Ashley and I are playing synth and guitar in my old Thirroul living room, I later overdubbed a bass line, then Myles added percussion from his place in the northern rivers. When I listen to it, it sounds like we’re all in the same room playing live. It's partly because the overdubbing is done so quickly and intuitively, first takes kinda thing. I had the best day when Myles sent me his parts; I love his playing. It's hard to talk about the music of Blue Divers outside of the boring recording process stuff, because it's an intuitive and social thing. I'm always just trying to get lost in it, and I got lost in this one, so it made the album. How good is getting lost in something?”

'Blue Divers II' is out everywhere Friday, November 18, 2022 through Bedroom Suck / Flightless Distro.

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BSR-107: Blue Divers 'Blue Divers II'

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Don Glori, a.k.a multi-instrumentalist Gordon Li, returns with a remix EP that tears open five tunes from his groundbreaking debut, Welcome.

Taking an opportunity to sink into some of the ideas explored on the original album, the five remixes featured here sees some of Europe and Australia’s finest throw open the shutters and shine a light on Li’s inventive compositions and remarkable instrumentation.

Rosie from the Block, a.k.a Belgian multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ Roselien, leans right into the percussion and drum kit playing that made Welcome so infectious, layering this with cheeky bubblegum-beat bass lines that lend the whole affair an incredibly smooth, street-soul styling.

Other key players include Swedish duo Mount Liberation Unlimited, lending their take on things an introspectively dark, brooding atmosphere that evolves into one of their trademark acid-house extended journeys; Australian radio DJ and producer Ennio Styles working alongside Liam de Bruin, hip-hop/soul duo Man Made Mountain, led by MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, and an insanely infectious organic house take on hit single Dlareme by one of Melbourne’s finest, Teymori.

A perfect companion to an album that broke open the Melbourne scene and laid out new parameters for the quality of jazz, samba and funk-inspired music emerging from that city, Welcome Remixes breathes fresh life into this incredible album and reminds us just how goddamn fun making, playing and performing music can be.

Don Glori & Friends 'Welcome Remixes' is out Friday,14 July, 2023.
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BSR-108: Don Glori 'Welcome Remixes'

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This spring, Australia’s much loved strummers of outsider folk return with their fifth studio album, No Poets.

But Lower Plenty are poets. They give us prose on power, words on distance and stories of defeat. This is everyday prose but not the banal stuff. Lessons of triumph are delivered in a haze of self-deprecation. Time wasters are celebrated. Honest admissions from the pretenders are elevated. In this honesty, Lower Plenty are always present. That’s why their music feels so close.

The familiar names of their previous albums ring like a litany of bad memories. Mean, Hard Rubbish, Life/Thrills, Sister Sister. Modern classics. Someone to tell your story. Someone to make you feel like you have a voice, like the years spent marking time won’t be forgotten; someone to remember that you were here. And on this album, healing, grief, tears, dragging it out. It drags. This dystopia we’re living in drags on but there’s the motivation to change. Not blind hope, not stupor, but change.

The song writing on No Poets is steeped with the space intertwining acoustic guitars allow. By relying on these thin melodies to hold together the compositions, the potential for No Poets to run off the rails is real but Lower Plenty appear at their most concrete. Central to this cohesiveness is Sarah Heyward and Daniel Twomeys’ percussive dialogue which expands here. These sturdy rhythms float amongst Heyward’s uneasy sonic hazes. Get ready to spend aimless afternoons listening to this record.

No Poets was recorded from 2020 to 2022. The initial tracks were recorded in a northern suburbs storage unit by the band themselves. No poets. Jewellers, teachers, builders, paper pushers.

No Poets is a beautiful record and one that reminds us why we still try. Find it everywhere on Friday, October 6, 2023.

https://bedroomsuckrecords.com

BSR-109: Lower Plenty 'No Poets'

After a long silence since the release of 2018’s ‘Cyanide Thornton’ album, Narrm-based songwriter Sienna Thornton returns with a new full-length album, ‘Birding Out’. 

This week on Wednesday June 4, we see the release of ‘After Harvest’, the first single from the forthcoming album. Says songwriter Sienna Thornton on the track --

“As with a lot of this album I let this song come intuitively, starting with the chord structure which reminded me of patterns in a maze. 

Within this I remembered the story of the minotaur from Greek mythology - greed, suffering, nature and nurture, intergenerational threads and the line of twine. This led to linear and non-linear time perception, life-line, body and mind, cycles and spirals, ecosystems and resources - what happens when the extraction of the final harvest has fed our unending hunger. 

I found myself trying to find a balance between a desire for certainty, concreteness, and what it feels like to embrace a less tangible, intuitive experience. I tried to imagine where each source of knowing comes from.”

The album features Sienna on most instruments, with a range of guest performers including Shaun Fogarty (tenor sax), Emma Stuart (voice), Georgia Knight (voice), Mei Craken (voice) and Luke Brennan (acoustic guitar).

BSR-111 Sienna Thornton - 'Birding Out'

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From mimicking drum sounds with their mouths and then processing the result to create a world of intricate, intimate sound; to recording a short EP’s worth of work at the snail’s pace of a minimum 12 months, the Sydney based duo Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs approach their work with a fascinating blend of impulse and consideration. Sounds can be carefully sulptured, massaged, edited and reworked, only to be thrown out the window and replaced with a whole new set of material at a moment’s notice.

The pair pay acute attention to mood, space and atmosphere; they are not afraid to take their time. Listening to their compositions is like travelling through the countryside on a train, downriver on a boat, or rising into clouds through the windows of a commercial airliner. Gray and Ebbs’ music, it feels, is an accompaniment to thought and feeling, a personal soundtrack to carry in one’s head. As Eno said when famously coining the term ‘ambient’ - “Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”

In 2022, the pair will return with a new EP, ‘Blue’, their first for the Bedroom Suck Records label. The five tracks on Blue continue to explore the world that lies somewhere between organic and electronic, between natural sound and manufactured signal. Acoustic instruments make a notable appearance, as does a strong lead vocal in ‘It’s Alright’. The music is evocative, nostalgic and inspirational; It leaves one feeling hopeful.

'Blue' is out everywhere May 6, 2022 via Bedroom Suck Records / Flightless Distro (AU/NZ) / Cargo (UK/EU) / Polyvinyl (North America).

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Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs - Real Life Feeling

Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs - Right Hands

Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs - It's Alright

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Blue Divers II was recorded at various home studios by the different performers of the ever-evolving coastal collective Blue Divers.  The album is performed by Myles Myjavek, Ashley Bundang, Lehmann B. Smith, Jack Saltimaris and Alec Marshall. The recordings started with impromptu collaborations in Marshall’s living room in Thirroul, before being sent through the modern marvels of the internet across the Northern Rivers, New South Wales; Melbourne, Victoria, and finally back to the New South Wales South Coast, where the record was picked up by Marshall and assembled into its finished whole. Myles plays percussion and flute, Lehmann plays clarinet, Ashley plays vibraphone and various keyboard instruments, with Marshall bringing up the rear on guitar, bass, percussion, piano and keyboards.

'Blue Divers II' is out everywhere Friday, November 18, 2022 through Bedroom Suck / Flightless Distro. 

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Blue Divers - Closer

Six years on since the release of 2016’s In Search of… album, ex-Panel of Judges frontman and Melbourne-via-NYC luminary Dion Nania returns with Free Time’s third studio album in eight years, Jangle Jargon. 

The album was recorded chiefly in two parts, beginning in 2017 in Ridgewood, Queens, with engineer Jarvis Taveniere (Purple Mountains, The Avalanches, Molly Burch) and guests Martin Frawley and Amy Franz (Twerps, Super Wild Horses) from Nania’s home in Melbourne, Australia. 

After a period of quiet in which he focussed on his academic work, Nania, now living in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Williamsburg, returned to these original sessions in 2021 with a bag of new material and regular collaborators Jonah Maurer and Mike Mimoun. After a while demo’ing new material with Maurer during the pandemic, Nania discovered that he shared an apartment building with engineer John Epperly (Veldt, Daddy Long Legs, Baby Shakes), and so without further ado they booked in time to track new material and mix the 2017 sessions. After a few roadblocks, including Mimoun’s newborn baby Noam arriving the day the album’s tracking sessions were to begin, the band eventually had themselves a record. 

Growing up in the punk and underground scenes in Geelong and Melbourne, Nania was self-taught from an early age. Interestingly, it was his move to the US that sparked a growth in musical theory, prompting him to develop new skills in order to work with new collaborators. Says Dion about his change from the Melbourne underground to New York City - “About ten years ago, when I first came to NYC, I started playing in Craig Dermody’s band (Scott & Charlene’s Wedding). We decided to go to an Underwater Peoples label showcase, we were aware of them because they’d put out the Twerps already. So we went and met those guys who ended up being Free Time’s label for years, and Mike Mimoun from UP joined (Scott & Charlene’s Wedding) on drums, so I got to know him. Then the next year I filled in on bass for a Twerps tour, and through that got to know Jonah Maurer who was touring with us in Real Estate. Then Underwater Peoples asked if I wanted to make a record.”

The band continued over the years, with Dion bouncing between the USA and Australia and collaborating with musicians on both sides of the Pacific. Eight years on and we have Jangle Jargon, ten tracks ranging from the overtly political to the optimistically upbeat and desperately heartbroken, with a healthy dose of jangle jargon in between. 

Free Time 'Jangle Jargon' is out Friday, Sept 30 via Bedroom Suck Records & Polyvinyl/Dispatch Dept (USA/CAN). 

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Free Time - That's Rare

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Aptly titled, ‘Welcome’ is the debut album from Don Glori. A kaleidoscopic free dive into his world, featuring 8 recordings of revolving jazz, Brazilian, soul and funk inspired compositions spinning together and blurring into a genre bending slew of new music.

There is an intangible element of joy and connection sitting just outside the grasp of description or definition that can be felt throughout this album. Each song on this album captures the spirit and irrepressible energy that underpins the core of the Don Glori project. Imperfections are captured along with the moments of transcendence. Layers of vocal harmonies oscillate next to pulsating samba rhythms while spiritual overtones permeate throughout. Congas and percussion form a holy union with the drum kit, co-piloted by Don Glori’s own bass lines. Saxophones, horns and flutes flutter in between the musical canyons carved out by the piano and vibraphone. When you press all of these forces together you can start to feel the intangible; the intrinsic human elements existing in the creases. The sweat, excitement and willingness of each musician to dedicate their spirit and take risks on every track of this album.

Don Glori 'Welcome' LP is out Friday, October 14 via Bedroom Suck Records / Cargo UK / Dispatch Dept. (North America).

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Don Glori - Commodore

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Six years on since the release of 2016’s In Search of… album, ex-Panel of Judges frontman and Melbourne-via-NYC luminary Dion Nania returns with Free Time’s third studio album in eight years, Jangle Jargon.

The album was recorded chiefly in two parts, beginning in 2017 in Ridgewood, Queens, with engineer Jarvis Taveniere (Purple Mountains, The Avalanches, Molly Burch) and guests Martin Frawley and Amy Franz (Twerps, Super Wild Horses) from Nania’s faraway home in Melbourne, Australia.

After a period of quiet in which he focussed on his academic work, Nania, now living in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Williamsburg, returned to these original sessions in 2021 with a bag of new material and regular collaborators Jonah Maurer and Mike Mimoun. After a while demo’ing new material with Maurer during the pandemic, Nania discovered that he shared an apartment building with engineer John Epperly (Veldt, Daddy Long Legs, Baby Shakes), and so without further ado the trip booked in time to track new material and mix the 2017 sessions. After a few roadblocks, including Mimoun’s newborn baby Noam arriving the day the album’s tracking sessions were to begin, the band eventually had themselves a record.

'Jangle Jargon' is out everywhere Friday, September 30 via Bedroom Suck Records / Dispatch Dept. (North America).

https://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Free Time - Half Measures

Welcome (Remixes)

Don Glori - Ponte (Rosie From The Block Remix)

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Don Glori, a.k.a multi-instrumentalist Gordon Li, returns with a remix EP that tears open five tunes from his groundbreaking debut, Welcome. 

Taking an opportunity to sink into some of the ideas explored on the original album, the five remixes featured here sees some of Europe and Australia’s finest throw open the shutters and shine a light on Li’s inventive compositions and remarkable instrumentation.

Rosie from the Block, a.k.a Belgian multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ Roselien, leans right into the percussion and drum kit playing that made Welcome so infectious, layering this with cheeky bubblegum-beat bass lines that lend the whole affair an incredibly smooth, street-soul styling. 

Other key players include Swedish duo Mount Liberation Unlimited, lending their take on things an introspectively dark, brooding atmosphere that evolves into one of their trademark acid-house extended journeys; Australian radio DJ and producer Ennio Styles working alongside Liam de Bruin, hip-hop/soul duo Man Made Mountain, led by MC Cazeaux O.S.L.O, and an insanely infectious organic house take on hit single Dlareme by one of Melbourne’s finest, Teymori.

A perfect companion to an album that broke open the Melbourne scene and laid out new parameters for the quality of jazz, samba and funk-inspired music emerging from that city, Welcome Remixes breathes fresh life into this incredible album and reminds us just how goddamn fun making, playing and performing music can be. 

Don Glori & Friends  'Welcome Remixes' is out Friday,14 July, 2023.
https://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Don Glori - Dinner Party (Mount Liberation Unlimited Remix)

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This spring, Australia’s much loved strummers of outsider folk return with their fifth studio album, No Poets. 

But Lower Plenty are poets. They give us prose on power, words on distance and stories of defeat. This is everyday prose but not the banal stuff. Lessons of triumph are delivered in a haze of self-deprecation. Time wasters are celebrated. Honest admissions from the pretenders are elevated. In this honesty, Lower Plenty are always present. That’s why their music feels so close.

The familiar names of their previous albums ring like a litany of bad memories. Mean, Hard Rubbish, Life/Thrills, Sister Sister. Modern classics. Someone to tell your story. Someone to make you feel like you have a voice, like the years spent marking time won’t be forgotten; someone to remember that you were here. And on this album, healing, grief, tears, dragging it out. It drags. This dystopia we’re living in drags on but there’s the motivation to change. Not blind hope, not stupor, but change.

The song writing on No Poets is steeped with the space intertwining acoustic guitars allow.  By relying on these thin melodies to hold together the compositions, the potential for No Poets to run off the rails is real but Lower Plenty appear at their most concrete.  Central to this cohesiveness is Sarah Heyward and Daniel Twomeys’ percussive dialogue which expands here.  These sturdy rhythms float amongst Heyward’s uneasy sonic hazes. Get ready to spend aimless afternoons listening to this record. 

No Poets was recorded from 2020 to 2022. The initial tracks were recorded in a northern suburbs storage unit by the band themselves. No poets. Jewellers, teachers, builders, paper pushers.

No Poets is a beautiful record and one that reminds us why we still try. Find it everywhere on Friday, October 6, 2023.

https://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Lower Plenty - Back To The Foldout

Lower Plenty - Blue Shadows

Lower Plenty - Cold Room, Shut Blinds

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This spring, Australia’s much loved strummers of outsider folk return with their fifth studio album, No Poets.

But Lower Plenty are poets. They give us prose on power, words on distance and stories of defeat. This is everyday prose but not the banal stuff. Lessons of triumph are delivered in a haze of self-deprecation. Time wasters are celebrated. Honest admissions from the pretenders are elevated. In this honesty, Lower Plenty are always present. That’s why their music feels so close.

The familiar names of their previous albums ring like a litany of bad memories. Mean, Hard Rubbish, Life/Thrills, Sister Sister. Modern classics. Someone to tell your story. Someone to make you feel like you have a voice, like the years spent marking time won’t be forgotten; someone to remember that you were here. And on this album, healing, grief, tears, dragging it out. It drags. This dystopia we’re living in drags on but there’s the motivation to change. Not blind hope, not stupor, but change.

The song writing on No Poets is steeped with the space intertwining acoustic guitars allow. By relying on these thin melodies to hold together the compositions, the potential for No Poets to run off the rails is real but Lower Plenty appear at their most concrete. Central to this cohesiveness is Sarah Heyward and Daniel Twomeys’ percussive dialogue which expands here. These sturdy rhythms float amongst Heyward’s uneasy sonic hazes. Get ready to spend aimless afternoons listening to this record.

No Poets was recorded from 2020 to 2022. The initial tracks were recorded in a northern suburbs storage unit by the band themselves. No poets. Jewellers, teachers, builders, paper pushers.

No Poets is a beautiful record and one that reminds us why we still try. Find it everywhere on Friday, October 6, 2023.

https://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Lower Plenty - The Great Pretender

taken from the '5 Years of Bedroom Suck Records' compilation, available now.

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Love Of Diagrams - Eyes

taken from the '5 Years of Bedroom Suck Records' compilation, available now.

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Terrible Truths - False Hope

Totally Mild - Christa

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After a long silence since the release of 2018’s ‘Cyanide Thornton’ album, Narrm-based songwriter Sienna Thornton returns with a new full-length album, ‘Birding Out’. 

Says songwriter Sienna Thornton on the first single, 'After Harvest' --

“As with a lot of this album I let this song come intuitively, starting with the chord structure which reminded me of patterns in a maze. 

Within this I remembered the story of the minotaur from Greek mythology - greed, suffering, nature and nurture, intergenerational threads and the line of twine. This led to linear and non-linear time perception, life-line, body and mind, cycles and spirals, ecosystems and resources - what happens when the extraction of the final harvest has fed our unending hunger. 

I found myself trying to find a balance between a desire for certainty, concreteness, and what it feels like to embrace a less tangible, intuitive experience. I tried to imagine where each source of knowing comes from.

We filmed the video at Hyman’s Beach just above Booderee National Park on Yuin Country. We were told by a friend to go and see the sand there as we were on a drive down from up north. Finding so much beautiful red seaweed in the water was inspiring visually and texturally, it felt like the interior of a body. We acknowledge and pay deep respect to the custodians of this land who have been caring for Country for so many thousands of years."

The song features Sienna on most instruments, with a range of guest performers including Shaun Fogarty (tenor sax), Emma Stuart (voice), Georgia Knight (voice), Mei McCraken (voice) and Luke Brennan (acoustic guitar). It is accompanied by a music video filmed by Sienna and Jasper Lopez on Yuin Country. 

The new album, Birding Out, is out everywhere Friday, July 25th.

Sienna Thornton - After Harvest

After a long silence since the release of 2018’s ‘Cyanide Thornton’ album, Narrm-based songwriter Sienna Thornton returns with a new full-length album, ‘Birding Out’.

Says songwriter Sienna Thornton on her new single, 'Crest Lit Up' --

“Crest Lit Up takes us on a slow motion circular ride into deep desire and erotic unfolding. Born from late night pool hall fluro-lamps and intimate dreams of entangled past lives with a love, bodies swapping stories by laying touching through the night, its a welcoming of my queer self into more clear awareness and celebration. 

Punko’s soft glistening vocals add the crispness of the night air and reach out to the lonely longing of the soprano sax’s warble. The past/a/ural fettuccini western ravioli erotica film to accompany adds textural dimension and maybe the first homemade lasagne chaps to grace the screen. This is a love song to hidden parts of ourselves.”

The track features Punko on vocal and Shuan Fogarty on a sweet soprano sax warble. Best played late at night or in the early hours. 

You can pre-order Sienna Thornton's new album, 'Birding Out', here ~ https://sound-merch.com.au/collections/bedroom-suck-records/products/sienna-thornton-birding-out-lp-black-vinyl

Sienna Thornton - Crest Lit Up

Sienna Thornton - Esmerelda

Butterfly Eyes

kisses - Butterfly Eyes

kisses - Queen of the Suburbs

This is the first single from the long-awaited Terrible Truths debut, available from October 9, 2015.

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Terrible Truths - See Straight

The second single from the long-awaited Terrible Truths debut, available from October 9, 2015.

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Terrible Truths - Uptight

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Taken from the debut full-length 'a/s/l?', available from August 11, 2017. Hamjam is Hamish Rahn (Methyl Ethyl) and James Ireland (Pond).

Recorded by Hamish Rahn and James Ireland. Mastering by Mike Jelinek @ Jelly Sound. Saxophone on 'Lean' by Jack Doepel.

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ASL - mp3

Hamjam - Lean

Bitch Prefect - Bad Decisions

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'Cyanide Thornton' is a record wreathed in tenderness, honesty and intimacy, and will guide you from the dark corners of your mind to somewhere unearthly and supernatural.

Cyanide Thornton acknowledge that this recording was made on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. 

Available November 9, 2018 via Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK.EU).

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Cyanide Thornton - Weight

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Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives.

Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesisers and early workstations began to enter the consumer marketplace.

'Midday Moon' out November 2 thru Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK/EU). 

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Midday Moon 

Helen Ripley-Marshall - Under the Sun

Garry Havrillay - Temple

“Oh Baby!” Call it out when you are high on love. “Oh Baby!” Cry it out when that same love gets you low. 

Over the soulful, trunk rattling production of Melbourne beat-maker Skomes, rapper/poets Nelson Dialect and Cazeaux O.S.L.O. weigh in on their perspective of love and loss.

The one and only Jace XL (Hiatus Kaiyote) brings this track home with a single question. “Do you love now love? Do you?"

Sunset Cities is the new collaborative project from So.Crates, Nelson Dialect and Alnitak Kid. Full length album out 22/02 thru Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records.

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So.Crates, Alnitak Kid, Nelson Dialect - Oh Baby (feat. Jace XL)

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The raga is one of the central melodic frameworks for Indian classical music. It translates to ‘colouring’ or ‘dyeing’ in English, but beautifully, has no direct musical translations to western classical genres. A raga has the ability to colour the mind with it’s five notes, each scale having its own association to time, place, and emotion. You can hear this improvisation framework weave through many of the songs below; some clearly making up the backbone of the melody, others expanding far beyond into the realms of disco, funk, and pop. This is just a tiny window into the wild, delightful foray of Indian classical and contemporary music. 
Colour the mind, colour the ears.

1. Chick Chocolate / Contessa
2. Charanjit Singh / Chailla Babu
3. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & the Rajasthan Express / Kalandar
4. Salma Agha / Come Closer 
5. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & the Rajasthan Express / Hu
6. R.D. Burman / Dance Music
7. R.D. Burman / Music
8. Anuradha Paudwal / Mainne Kaun Koi Kya Jane 
9. Asha Bhosle / In Aankohn Ki Masti 
10. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & the Rajasthan Express / Chala Vahi Des
11. Asha Bhosle / Yeh Hai Reshmi Zulfon Ka Andhera
12. Asha Bhosle / Raaton Ko Chori Chori 
13. Buddhadev Dasgupta / Bageshri
14. Anand, Kanchan, Manhar / Hum Tumhen Chathe Hain
15. Aruna Sairam / Raga Hemavati
16. Parvati Khan / Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
17. Kazi Arindam / Mere Liye Too Bani
18. Debashish Bhattacharya / Papa Tau 
19. Biddu / Baat Ban Jaye
20. Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood & the Rajasthan Express / Roked

Artwork: Salma Agha / Best Love Songs (2016)
Mix compiled by Xan Coppinger
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Music in Exile Presents: #3 Rajasthan Express

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Warm up your ears on this wintery week with these fiery tunes out of Ghana. This week we selected some toasty numbers predominantly from the 70s and 80s, with a spotlight on Ghanian Highlife, funk, and afrobeat. It may be dark and cold outside, but we hope these tunes will keep the flame alive for you. 

1. E.K Nyame / Brah Ohoho
2. Benis Bletin / Get Up and Dance 
3. Hedzoleh Soundz / Edinya Benya 
4. Christy Azuma & Uppers International / Naam 
5. E.T.  Mensah / Day by Day 
6. Me, You, One (Means I Love You) / Azuma & Christy & His Sound Coasters
7. Gyedy Blay Ambolley / Simi Rapp
8. Eric Agyeman / Matutu Mirika 
9. K. Frimgpong & Vis a Vis / Aboagyewaa 
10. Rob / Make It Fast, Make It Slow
11. Uppers Chapter 2 / Samarin Bolga 
12. Apagya Show Band / Tamfo Nyi Elyir 
13. The Ogyatanaa Show Band / You Monompolise Me 
14. Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mau / K.Frimpong & His Cubanos Fiestas 
15. The Wellis Band / Bindiga 
16. Gyedublay Ambolley & His Creations / Akoko Ba

Artwork: Ogyatanaa Show Band / African Fire (1975), Agoro Records 
Mix compiled by Xan Coppinger
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Music in Exile Presents #5: Electric Highlife from Ghana, Part 2

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This takes place on land stolen from the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. MIE acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People as the rightful owners of the land we live on, and pays respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

This fortnight we will tune our ears towards the sounds of Indigenous Australia between 1970-1999. The music you will hear crosses from punk to folk, instrumental to rock, to snippets of synth and whispers of reggae. Some of the tunes are examples of traditional instrumentation and songs of the Dreamtime , while others are more indicative of the post-punk and rock scene that bloomed in 1980s Australia within the political movements surrounding the Barunga Statement. 

Most of all, we pay our deepest respect to each artist here and the strength and talent shown to create music with such a crossing of emotion, talent, political uprising, rebellion, resistance, and deep, heartfelt expression. 

Alan Maralung / New Song, Part 1 
Yothu Yindi / Treaty 
Waak Waak Jungi / Djambaku 
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu / Djarimirri 
Pigram Brothers / Going Back Home
Waak Waak Jungi / White Cockatoo
No Fixed Address / We Have Survived 
Archie Roach / Jamu Dremaing 
Letterstick Band / Yi-Rranna 
Pigram Brothers / Moonlight
Alan Dargin / Fantastic Planet 
Pigram Brothers / Poinciana Sword Fight 
The Wilcannia Mob / Down River 
Ruby Hunter / Ngarrindjeri Woman
Tiddas / Inanay 
Riley Lee / Wild Honey Dreaming 
Jimmy Little / Yorta Yorta Man 

Artwork: Wild Honey Dreaming, 1993, Riley Lee and Matthew Doyle 
Mix compiled by Xan Coppinger
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Music in Exile Presents #7: Sounds from Indigenous Australia 1981 - 2006

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This takes place on land stolen from the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. MIE acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People as the rightful owners of the land we live on, and pays respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

This mix was the wildest delight to make. Take Shimshon Miel's forgotten drippy psychedelic gems from his one and only self-released album in 1977. Or the huge discography from 60's band The Churchills, one of the first-ever Israeli rock bands who went on to perform under multiple aliases internationally (you may know them as Jericho) and with five a huge rotation of band members. Or the High Windows, an iconic 60s Israeli pop & soul group that backlashed the government's ban of the Beatles to instead take them and The Doors as a primary influence, something that you can wonderfully hear in the harmonies of their tracks. Throughout this, rock pioneer Arik Einstein crops up again and again as a band member in many of these groups - we probably need a whole mix devoted just to his intimidatingly large discography. 

There's a lot to dig your eyes and ears into here. 

Shimshon Miel / The Holy Zohar / 1970
Chava Alberstein / The Woman Said / 1975
The Churchills / Chorale for Young Lovers / 1970
The Churchhills / Pictures in My Mind / 1991 
Kaveret / Poogy / Yo Ya / 1973
Erez Halevi / Halayla / 1984
Lior Yeini / בואי לאילת / 1970
The High Windows / Eynech Yechola / 1967
The High Windows / Zemer Nuge / 1967
The Pure Souls / 1974 / הנשמות הטהורות
Arik Einstein  / Ma Ata Ose Kshe Ata Kam Ba Boker / 1970 
Arik Einstein / Ani / Veata / NA
The Pure Souls / אחכה לך / 1974
Shimshon Meil / Piece of Art / 1970 
Shuki & Dorit / גן נעול / 1980


Artwork: שירי איינשטיין, from 'Slow Down', Arik Einstein Miki Gavrielov, 1974. 
Mix compiled by Xan Coppinger
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Music in Exile Presents #11:  Israeli Psychedelic Rock, Country, and Acoustic (1967-1984)

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This takes place on land stolen from the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation. MIE acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung People as the rightful owners of the land we live on, and pays respect to their elders, past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

Dip your toes dancing into the funk, disco, and pop sounds of 1980’s Philippines. With influences being drawn from jazz, Latin fusion, bossa nova, 70s American pop, disco, and indigenous folk, two main genres spawned to cover the ballooning number of popular dance music styles hitting the radio - Manila Sound and it’s successor, OPM (Original Philippines Music). 
Manila Sound, pioneered in part by the popular pop/disco band Hotdog, repopularised the use of local Tagalog language over English productions with their catchy melodies and soft fusion of disco, jazz, and funk. Following this, much of Manila Sound and OPM began to write in ‘Taglish’, a mixing of English and Tagalog. "Hotdog, with Ella Del Rosario's beautifully angelic voice streaming through the airwaves during the clangs of martial law, immediately killed colonial mentality in pop music with its phenomenal original music. Influenced largely by Ella's regal societal class and beauty, gated palatial upbringing, her Spanish-American roots, her uniquely tonal and sweetly charming international accent, combined with her private school upbringing, a magnetic charm, affluent mannerisms and English-speaking mannerisms, suddenly it was cool to talk Taglish and listen to a Pinoy pop band.” (Baby Gil, Philippine Star). OPM, the successor Manilla sound, devoted itself moreso to pop music and ballads than the disco and funk scene of its forerunner. It’s important to note that while this genre was drawing crowds, a huge underground scene of Filipino folk-rock, protest music, new wave, and punk rock was also gaining traction. Maybe that’s one for the next mix. 

lots of love, xan xoxox 

Regine Velasquez - Urong Sulong (1987)
Chona Cruz - Working Girls (1984) 
Boy Katindig - Midnight Lady (1978) 
Ella del Rosario - O' lumapit ka (1996) 
Sandy Secades, Boy Katinig - This Feeling Means Love 
Chona Cruz - Bakit (1980)
VST & Company - Disco Fever (1980 - 2008 reissue)
Pag Tumatagal Lalong Tumitibay - Wadab (1979)
Hotdog - Ikaw Pa Rin (1996) 
Bong Penera - Batucada Sa Calesa (1977)
Timmy Cruz - Tingin (1996) 
Hotdog - Manila (1976) 
Apo Hiking Society - Pumapatak Ang Ulan (1982)

Artwork - Hotdog - Unang Kagat. Villar ‎– MLS-5391. 1975. 

Mix compiled by Xan Coppinger
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Music in Exile presents: Manila Sound - Filipino Funk, Disco, and Pop (1976 - 1996)

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Originally formed as the songwriting project of guitarist/vocalist Dusty Anastassiou, Dag began as a trio in 2012, with Bridie McQueenie and Heidi Cutlack joining on drums and bass. The band released a cassette EP, Dogwood, via fellow Mianjin/Brisbane-based label Tenth Court in 2014. Here they found a small but dedicated following amongst fans of bright, weather-worn pop songs, in the style of Bill Callahan and The Cannanes.

Defined by a rotating line-up of friends and contributors, the Dag band has changed with each subsequent release. Their debut album, Benefits of Solitude (released in 2017 by Bedroom Suck) saw the final incarnation of Dag's tenure in Brisbane – with Josh Watson (bass/keys/violin), Skye McNicol (violin), and Matthew Ford (drums). Mixed and largely recorded by multi-instrumentalist Watson, Benefits.. found the band's palette and instrumentation expand – with lush arrangements filtered down to a bone dry snap, like the Wakka Wakka country from which it was inspired.

After relocating to Naarm/Melbourne in 2016, Dag returned to a trio formation with long-standing members Dave McMillan (drums) and Daniel Ford (bass). It was with this lineup that the band recorded their sophomore album, Pedestrian Life – to be released in May via Bedroom Suck. 3 years on from their first album, Dag are excited to share what has been a long labour of love with the world.

'Pedestrian Life' out Friday, June 25, 2021 via Bedroom Suck Records. 
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Dag - Who Owns Pain?

Welcome to Bedroom Mix no.1 - Blue Divers welcomes us into their cascading world of dream-like, lo-fi guitar, delicate piano and enveloping textural soundscapes. The mix takes us through vignettes of left-of-field inspirations, and some local gems and makes for easy listening that's gentle on the ears. 

The band released a self-titled LP in October 2020. The first release of the on-going series, Private Eyes, that aims to document Australian musicians in isolation through the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Blue Divers are an experimental, instrumental group led by Alec Marshall (Hot Palms, Sui Zhen). Currently based in Thirroul, NSW, the project is named after the bushcare group in Marshall’s hometown of Towradgi. Made up of a rotating ensemble of players, including Jordan Ireland (The Middle East), Ashley Bundang (Classic, Sui Zhen, Totally Mild) and Carla Oliver (Badskin) - Blue Divers is the fruition of numerous years of improvisation and experimentation in various live spaces and studio sessions around the country.

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Bedroom Mix #01 - Blue Divers

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As the world was closing its doors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calendars were cleared. Amidst the confusion and apprehension of change and disorder, a silver lining of free time created opportunities and space for new musical collaborations. The forthcoming release from the Bedroom Suck Records ‘Private Eyes’ series,  "A Cassowary Apart", is the result of such a time. 

The relationship between Andrew Tuttle, Spencer Grady and Stephen Lewis of Padang Food Tigers began organically, as they had known of each other’s music before the pandemic. Tuttle jokes, “Given the size of the ambient banjo music scene, we’d been fans of each other’s music for a while. While we were chatting online, COVID hit and we decided to write a few songs.” 

With other projects on hold, the album was written at respective home studios between London and Brisbane entirely over email; Andrew Tuttle and Padang Food Tigers have actually never met in person. Files were sent back and forth across different time zones, creating a collaboration that continued around the clock. 

“It worked really well [the time zone difference], because that way, when you woke up there was something for you…a little treat to start the day. We worked on this album on and off for about five months - or Three Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty-Six hours.”

The influence of COVID restrictions is evident in more than just the title (appropriately inspired by the Cassowary ‘1.5 meters apart’ analogy to be found at Cairns airport in Far North Queensland). In this project, each musician primarily used the main instrumentation from their own respective projects, but the freedom of working on something new allowed the opportunity to play their preferred instruments in new ways and with new tunings. 

Despite working from different corners of the world, the collaboration was so intertwined that it became murky of who did what on the record. The fusing of sonics truly exemplifies the total trust and depth of their collaborative process.

 “It’s made via such distance, but that’s not a big deal.. we’ve all come to terms with distance. The approach of the record is really just the sign of the times. Although it limits us, it makes certain things possible.” 

This interconnectedness is evident in the first single from the album, Three Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty-Six. Swelling synths intertwine with banjo, lap steel and field recordings, sometimes layered with such subtlety that the listener can’t quite tell where one sound ends and the next begins. Shimmering waves of decay, reverberation and processed electronics create a space that is abundant and generous, welcoming the listener into the sonic warmth of the release. 

"A Cassowary Apart" is available digitally + on limited edition vinyl through Bedroom Suck Records from February 12th, 2021. 

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