falling,
falling,
falling...
I've seen you drown your memory.

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hellsweep.bandcamp.com/album/--2

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www.instagram.com/hellsweepofficial/

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Live @ Controcorrente | 02-07-2023

Crystal Swamp

The debut single from Perth-based experimental psych outfit Monotonic. 'The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche' is lifted from their forthcoming album "Heavy Metal", due out in 2026. 

Heavy Metal
From the found sound, ground-up provenance of lockdown-era extended three-piece jams canvassing psych, drone, dub, motorik and acid in equal measures in the leafy depths of the Perth Hills comes Monotonic’s eight-track swizzled cocktail of sonic poetry, Heavy Metal. If unfamiliar melody betokens the accumulation of the past, the past is always present and the future is always now, Heavy Metal is future retro recherché, time’s livid final flame.

Biography
Monotonic brings together three musicians from a golden era of Perth music. In the mid-90s Ammonia, Header and Yummy Fur made their mark on the alt-nation of the time with high rotation triple j airplay, appearances on ABC-TV’s Saturday morning show Recovery and exhaustive east coast and overseas touring. Alan Balmont (drums), Jack Lucas (guitar) and Liam Coffey (vocals, bass) spent 2024 putting together the suite of songs that would end up as Monotonic’s debut album, Heavy Metal — a cocktail of sonic poetry and melodic sensibility, and a heady melange of such disparate influences as Acid Rock, early 70s Dub and Psychedelic Motorik-Drone revival. But definitely not Heavy Metal.

monotonic.uk
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Heavy Metal

The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche

Monotonic - The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche

Part of the opening track from my latest ambient album Real Life and How To Avoid It, out on CD, download and streamies.

This track (like most of my music) was improvised live in my studio with most of my synths rather than just the laptop. 
It is another example of me exploring ways of making even more minimal music that is still satisfying.

Real Life and How to Avoid It

Once More

Human

This is a song about someone falling in love with a hologram. Or maybe about a hologram who falls in love with someone. I dedicate it to Erasmo Carlos, Louise Brooks, and The Flamingos.

Jeu de Lumières

Twelve

Counting Days

Put together for Disquiet Junto Project 0470: Calendar View
The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments.

January: Backwards piano from Further
February: Clarinet and effects from Density
March: Vocal treatments from I Saw the Skein
April: Whispers from Don’t Think of an Elephant
May: Segment from Social Distancing
June: Bass and background from Counting Days
July: Guitar from The Collective Field
August: Rehearsal phone recording
September: Synth from Vox Machina
October: Field recording of construction work
November: Rhythm from Music for Tooth Brushing (alternate version)
December: Segment from Committee of Four

Tied together with some effects and treatments

Some of the sources available here:
https://theslantedcity.bandcamp.com/
https://committeeoffour.bandcamp.com/
https://eriknilsson.bandcamp.com/

Calendar View 2020 [disquiet0470]

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Monotonic - The Purple Chords Play Belle Fourche

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