"An album of breathtaking vision" ★★★★ MOJO
 
"Mysterious and Hypnotic"  ★★★★ Q

"A near masterpiece"  ★★★★  Rolling Stone 

"An absorbing and accomplished debut"  ★★★★  The Australian
"An extraordinary debut album"  ★★★★  The Sunday Times 

"A compelling and unusual act of musical introspection." ★★★★ - The Financial Times.

"an immersive experience with the power to haunt long after it's finished" - The Guardian (New Band of The Day)

"a poeticised music of reflection, mood and observation" - The Independent

"Intriguing and hauntingly lovely" - UNCUT


JOE MCKEE
The Darling Ranges lie about 35 km's south of Perth. The drive is mostly highway, fairly droll until you start actually ascending the hills themselves, at which point great dips and troughs reveal themselves and the whole region takes on a strange arid quality. The area was on fire for about 4 days in early 2011. Joe Mckee grew up in these hills and, after 4 years under the spell of London, he returned to them. Burning Boy is his debut album.
Joe's previous outfit, Snowman, were significant. They released 2 albums out of Perth - 2006's self titled effort and 2009's violent masterpiece The Horse, The Rat & The Swan. Praise, wide ranging and effusive, came from all corners of the globe. Victory laps beckoned. Stumps were upped and the gang of four headed to London, basing themselves out of a small flat above a cafe in Walthamstow. They pieced together Absence – a magnificent pulsing, wash of a record that would become their parting salvo. Two of them moved to Iceland child in tow, another firmly folded into the arms of Cambridge. Joe, always spinning in his own orbit, landed back in Perth with a collection of songs inspired by this process, by home, by London and by the catharsis involved in returning to a place you've tried so long to forget.
Burning Boy itself is a bold shift for McKee. Gone is the pulsing rhythm section so often omnipresent in his work, replaced by a breathy and somewhat unexpected baritone. Cuts like Open Mine, a loose mediation on Western Australia's recent gold rush, and the brooding title track show a vulnerability and lyrical dexterity seen for the first time here.
Recorded with long-time collaborator Dave Parkin, these 10 tracks move together as an exhilarating whole, acting as a timely reminder of McKee's reputation as one of Australia's finest left field composers. Burning Boy adds a few new strings to the bow though. Once you become immersed in it's gorgeous swells and poignant imagery it becomes immediately obvious that in all the coming, going, leaving and returning; that Joe Mckee has, at least for now, found a melodic home.
Burning Boy is out in MAY
on Dot Dash.

Man Of A Thousand Faces is the latest manifestation of songwriter Laith Tierney’s inexhaustible and chaotic creative energy.

An artistic chameleon, Tierney has distilled his previous approach of being in several wildly different acts, into one sonic shapeshifter capable of fulfilling almost any idea and musical experiment.

To accomplish such a feat, Laith has enlisted a seasoned & gifted assembly of musicians; Drummer 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗲 (𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱𝘀), Guitarists 𝗔𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 (𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀, 6s & 7s) & 𝗝𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗵 (𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝟰), Bassist 𝗟𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗺𝘀 (𝗙𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝘆) and Producer/Engineer/Keyboardist 𝗥𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗱 (𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴)

The ensemble recently emerged from Studio Sleepwalker’s Dread where they gave life to a collection of 21 songs.

MX1KF is now releasing tracks and performing live.

Petros Vouris is a sound artist and composer born in Athens Greece and currently living in Perth Western Australia.  

For more music visit - https://petrosvouris.bandcamp.com/

for more info, music and video visit - www.petrosvouris.com

feel free to befriend me - www.facebook.com/thesoundsofpetrosvouris/

frogs invented wifi why does the word “calendar” sound wet?  sometimes i listen to silence and it skips. been awake since before the last error.

doing music is my passion and in order to heal pains and sorrows is my dream 

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