One of Australia’s most mysterious jazz long players. The eponymous creation of Queensland pianist Robert Welsh. Originally released in 1986, Singing Dust offers a dynamic collection of songs, rich in expressive performance and compositional sophistication. Inspired by the sounds of Indian devotional song, the jazz piano styles of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, English folk and Debussey’s tonal impressions, this is a work of true dedication and posterity that will appeal to many serious music lovers. 

Restored from original master tapes by Fresh Hold Releases & Efficient Space.

Ewan McKenzie - Guitar.
Raine Mormon - Vocals and Vocal Harmonies.
Robert Welsh - Vocals, Vocal Harmonies, Bosendorfer, Grand Piano, Rhodes Electric Piano Korg Synthesizer, Recorders, Percussion, Conga Drum and Xylophone.

Recorded at Musart Studios, Brisbane
Remastered by Mikey and Danielsan.

Singing Dust - Let Me Take Your Name

Singing Dust

Singing Dust - Involution

Oz Echoes Special that was broadcast on NTS Radio on 05.04.21 to coincide with the release of 'Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989' on @efficientspace. Expanding on the sound of the compilation with one hour of recordings from the compilation artists, affiliated acts and others from the era, including unreleased demos, abandoned studio archives and rare cassette tapes. Artwork by Video Synth.

Patrick Gibson - Yeah OK
Negative Reaction - Dead
Tim Gruchy, Terry Murphy, Linda Wallace - Candy
Wrong Kind Of Stoneage - O Islam
Cut With The Kitchen Knife - Stays My Tongue
Severed Heads - Cowboy Muzak
Tim Gruchy & Matt Mawson - Fast Eludes Me Pop
Height/Dismay - Dusk
Mesh - Impressions Part I (excerpt)
Ian Russell - Washerwoman
Patrick Gibson - Air
Sherif Lindo - Untitled Demo 
Idiom Flesh - Sunday Is Monday
Wrong Kind Of Stoneage - Toil
Mr Knott - Another Way Of Walking
Gilded Youth - Confusion
Shanghai Au Go-Go - The Arrangement
Michael Trudgeon - Untitled
Xiro - The Confessions
The Limp - Untitled Demo

Oz Echoes Special (NTS 05.04.21)

For her Sunday Mix, the producer draws on a selection of tracks that contain meandering electronics and bird sounds. There's also Francis Ponge's refrain, "The land is coming back to me" in Elisian park stroll. Sublime and soporific, this is perfect for those hazy Sunday afternoon walks in the June heat.

Check out the tracklist on crackaud.io: https://crackm.ag/3gpUYdo

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Sunday Mix: YL Hooi

Gave Singing Dust collaborators @freshhold the keys to our NTS show. Contemporary jazz, minimal and forthcoming label releases, covering both the archive imprint and their new music alter ego @elationsrecordings [J.Walker, J.] 

Tracklisting @ www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/efficent-space-fresh-hold-6th-september-2021

Fresh Hold Take Over NTS Radio 06.09.21

A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by @ivan41, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hovering in a liminal emotional ravine between moonlight melancholy, teenage heartache and unchecked, unrealised ambition. Across 17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974, the 2LP collects and connects dots between British Invasion fanatics, child prodigies, the loners and the luckless, in a kind of trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.

From the tangerine dreams of 8th grade all-girl combo The Mod 4 to the tri-state jukebox aspiring echoes of The Tempters, The Yardleys' poetic Farfisa vamp and lilting folk pop, and The Landlords’ weepy break up b-side blues, these are mostly one shots by dreamers whose experience was brief before being checked back to the reality of suburban normality and realistic career options. Hailing from the regional backwaters of Illinois, Arkansas, Nevada, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho, Texas and beyond, the licensed artists were scouted by way of local fire departments, spiritualist fellowships and animal welfare centres, often barely a stones throw from where their contributions were originally laid.

A barely teenage Dennis Harte's ‘Summer’s Over’ perhaps best taps the collection’s essence. A gut-wrenching lament of the passing of the season as if it was the last on earth. Flanked by players from The Left Banke, Harte, a now-piano tuner to the stars, is from the minor segment that found longevity in showbiz. Likewise with Michigan icon Lyn Nowicki who cast her ghostly voice over Beatles cover song chameleons The Common People and Jerry McGee, The Ventures member and conduit of Dr. John’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

Ghost Riders simmers with the scent of youthful summers, the pang of schoolyard romance, and the excitement (and disenchantment) of teenage naïveté, delivered via a deceptively simple and frequently wonky garage band set up. The vision of record collector and graphic designer Ivan Liechti, these eternal psych-folk howlers are further crystallised by Colin Young’s fastidious audio restoration, the original artwork of Elise Gagnebin-de Bons and an aptly penned foreword from Sonic Boom.

Out on 2LP/CD/Digital 14 October 2022

Dennis Harte - Summer's Over (ES022) OUT NOW

A double shot of Y2K digi thrillers from Sydney via Bromley electro-dub producer Jeff Dread. Part of the city’s burgeoning network of blunted bass and sound system culture, Dread worked in parallel with the likes of Sheriff Lindo, Andy Rantzen and Ali Omar, issuing two dynamite albums on Creative Vibes in 1999 and 2001.

Utilising the Atari 1020 Ste, Dread would frantically live mix up to 9 tracks direct to CD-R, echoing the same rough and ready low tech intuition as Jamaican trailblazers King Tubby, Scientist and Jack Ruby and their UK-based disciples Jah Shaka, Adrian Sherwood and Mad Professor. While unmarked discs of his indulgently durational sessions litter the archives, this plate showcases versions immortalised by two crucial compilation CDs. Wicked stepper ‘Dub The Farmer’s Daughter’ burrows the ear canal with its addictive melodica and tightly coiled acid synth lines, edited for high impact by Sheriff Lindo for his volume of Dub For the Masses (Dread would curate its successor), while ‘Out On A Limb’ hails from Just Is, a double album sequenced by legendary Sydney queer party crew Club Kooky. A bass bin creeper that was extended with horns for his second longplayer Return From Alpha One, it’s this unembellished work in progress that really stings.

With Dread’s allegiance to local sound system heavyweights Firehouse, these totally brained studio jams are tried and tested weapons, finally blasting on the sacred 7” format.

Jeff Dread - Dub The Farmer's Daughter (ES030) OUT NOW

Lifted off 'Drain Down' EP. Out now on vinyl / digital

Video by timothy_ddt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJHpCYoB1vU

As part of longstanding no wave duo Naked On The Vague, murky girl group Knitted Abyss and extraterrestrial drone project Half High, Lucy Phelan has been a critical force in the Sydney DIY scene for over 10 years. Under the solo veil of Lucy Cliche, she annihilates with these four wavey techno tracks that honour her noise and punk ethos. With pounding drum sequences, draining synths and emotionless vocal echoes, her dark dreams sabotage our calculations of modern dance while demonstrating how physicality and the ethereal can interact.

Lucy Cliche - Passing Time (NIMH002)

Episode 12 of our monthly NTS radio program features another installation of our b2b session series with @noise-in-my-head . This was recorded live, as is tradition, in Melbourne a few months ago.

Full tracklist available here: https://www.nts.live/shows/pender-street-steppers/episodes/pender-street-steppers-2nd-july-2019

Please take the time to check out @noise-in-my-head 's wonderful record label @efficientspace

NTS Radio Episode 12 with guest Noise In My Head (2/7/19)

One hour NTS broadcast to coincide with the release of @ylhooi's 'Untitled' LP. Exhales unreleased material from co-producer Tarquin Manek, J etc. Full tracklisting @ www.nts.live/shows/guests/episo…19th-february-2021

YL Hooi: NTS Radio 19.02.21

Resident Efficient Space archivist Steele Bonus excavates proto-techno from '80s synth-pop outfit Modern Jazz.

'Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989' is out March 26th on Efficient Space.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2NzfKgj

@efficientspace

Oz Echoes: DIY Cassettes and Archives 1980-1989

Premiere: Modern Jazz - Zoom Dub [Efficient Space]

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Lucy Cliche - Passing Time (NIMH002)

NOISE IN MY HEAD