Hunting the Quak

Shadow of the Syncrotron

‘New Landscape’ is an album by Drummer / Producer – Nicholas Meredith (aka Kcin) and Bassist / Composer – Brendan Clark. The project dissects and expands the minutia of the miniature. Rearranging the structure of tiny elements into something gargantuan.

Inspired by the many and varied landscapes of their home country, the two improvisers create an intricate and disturbing tapestry of captivating, anxious beauty. The duo spent a day at Golden Retriever studios in Sydney, finishing the post production at Free Energy Device and Albion St Studios. This album is dedicated to all those (human and non human) who lost their lives, homes, friends and family in the fires of 2019/2020.

New Landscape

The Slow Buzz

Eyup Y​-​Nut Ta EP

Y-Nut

The thing about drone-based music is that it doesn’t change. So why listen? Musicians have been droning for thousands of years. The practice of creating melodic patterns over a single sustained or repeated note stretches back to the ancient Middle East, and instruments that produce drones are as old as music itself.

Few people are indifferent to the sound of a drone. For the drone-averse, the sound of an unchanging drawn out tone is the sound of tedium itself. Why on earth would you listen? For others, the answer to that question is simple: a drone can be beautiful. More than just beautiful—it can have a transcendent, hypnotic quality that under the right conditions can elicit a meditative or even religious response.

Maybe there’s something about the drone as a deathlike sound that haunts our consciousness in a certain way.

Focused Silence