Formed on Wadawurrung land in 2021, Pyrex takes shape from a love of folk, psychedelia, shoegaze and 90’s era music. Gemini EP out 27/09/24

Born and raised in Torino, Italy, Chiara is a Melbourne-based composer, DJ and musician. Her artistic appreciation and blend of music disciplines allow her to produce an eclectic range of musical outcomes.
Classically trained in piano in Italy and later exposed to electronic music after moving to Melbourne in 2004, Chiara has since moved into a well respected position in the Melbourne Techno movement through her dedication to a refined DJing technique and production of electronic music. This eventually led to extra studies in sound art and design at RMIT University, extending her interests into composition and sound design for screen.
Chiara’s work now ranges across composing and producing music and sound design for film and commercials, creating electronic music for live performance, composing soundscapes for immersive environments and art installations, and the experimental use of field recordings with analogue and digital synthesis.
Over her DJ career, Chiara has performed at a range of venues across Melbourne, supporting international DJs such as Robert Hood and Ben Sims, as well as appearing at White Night, Melbourne Music Week, L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival and Dark Mofo in Hobart.
In the past year, Chiara has continued her interest in musical composition, performing and DJing while also gaining practical audio engineering experience at GASinc, one of Melbourne’s leading sound design and music companies.
Chiara is currently producing music for picture at the Electric Dreams studios.

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Host of Australian Music program The Band Next Door on 2SER 107.3 local Sydney radio.

Naarm / Melbourne-based three-piece Double Vanity transported listeners into their brave new world with the arrival of indie chill synths from another dimension and dreamy guitar, vintage beats and post punk/crystalline vocals. 

Double Vanity released their pioneering debut album 'Love to Leave You' out 30 Sept 2022 to much international acclaim.

'Love To Leave You,' is out now through Psychic Hysteria. Mixed and mastered by Naomune Anzai (Teskey Brothers + Cash Savage and the Last Drinks)the concept album captures ice-cool realms of feminine love, loss, ghosts, and algorithms in answer to the feminist fires of Plaster of Paris' sisterband 2021 release, Lost Familiar, of which all three are members.

Single, Night Moves was released with video Directed by luminary Geoffrey O'Connor in a dreamy, pink limo, champagne afterparty haze the single charted at #1 on Soundcloud's Re-Ex Top 40 Underground Electronic Charts in 2022. US music mag, Austin Town Hall were “drawn to the majesty” of the vocals and music and was described by vocalist Zec Zechner as;

“a trip into 2062, a nuclear storm is endlessly roars outside the window, of a single thirty-something A.I. House Bot, donning kitchen apron and platinum blonde hair is burning the dinner and swirling on the checkered kitchen linoleum floor, on which the the oven drips smoky haze. Alexxa simulates day-dreams, for the long-lost dancefloor with her nostalgic sad indie chill, genre filter, conjuring her implanted memories”.

Escalator single, was launched with video clip and an online Q&A as part of the 2020 Leaps and Bounds Music Festival makes a statement about an artist escaping corporate boredom to fulfil their creative self. Featuring performance artist and painter Billi Lime and directed filmmaker Stephanie Gould (US). The track engaged audiences on YouTube with its meditation on the unfolding of a performer’s work and art-life, joyful collaboration of muse and artist. 

Self-titled debut track Double Vanity immediately grabbed the attention of the local and international airwaves. Its beautiful found footage video clip delved into an ‘80s plaza experience, complete with dream bathroom renovations and lycra-clad dancers, swirling jangle guitar and vocals dissolve in a hypnotic dance. 

During Melbourne's extended lockdown, Double Vanity released the DV EP of remixes of their previous two singles. The Double Vanity Remixes EP features amazing producers and artists Jimmy Cass, shemale crime coven (Angel from Habits), Psychic Hysteria label-mate Astral Skulls and Mino Peric (No Sister) and beloved Estonian electronic music star, Starlight Maker.

Alight the escalator into the skies for an automated trajectory to Love to Leave You out on 30 Sept, 2022 via Psychic Hysteria.

Contact doublevanitymusic@gmail.com

PRESS QUOTES

Night Moves "...it’s all murky atmospheres and sticky melodies, and paired with the brand new clip created by Geoffrey O'Connor, it’s a disorientating yet glamorous ride packed with a potently emotive punch that has us completely hooked." Trouble Juice May 2022

"Zec Zechner’s voice is surely the central focus; you are drawn to the majesty that it presents throughout, with moments that feel like the notes could shatter before your ears" Austin Town Hall (USA) May 2022

“Mixing original synths, vintage drum machines, dreamy Twin Peaks guitars, and otherworldly post-punk vocals their music is a perfect description of analogue sounds.” Visual Atelier 8 (USA) July 2020

“...‘Escalator’ is an ode to life’s relentless upward trajectory and a reminder to stop and smell the roses once in a while. ...I’d say Double Vanity create a potpourri of dream-pop, ambient sound, and melodic post-punk, but with a tousled new-wave glamour that makes the band’s sound feel both contemporary and nostalgic” James Frostick, Weirdo Wasteland June 2020

“... a seasoned group of musicians showing all the footnotes of an important band to come.” Daniel Devlin, Trouble Juice July 2020

“In devising their own genre, Double Vanity nullify the need for generic descriptors, favouring a fresh epithet they can paint their own style onto. Double Vanity are a band whose music expresses feelings that words can’t articulate, with the ability to lure the listener into otherwise confronting self-reflections,” Hum Zine Germany, July 2020

“Melbourne trio Double Vanity has given me chills with the release of its new track ‘Escalator.’ The lush synths and Kate Bush-esque vocals give it a cool retro feel, but there’s an immediate emotional intensity that grounds it in the now.” Sounds of Oz July 2020

“The mesmerizing moody approach to the flowing vocals really made this track for me, perfectly supplementing the ethereal instrumental in creating an absolutely hypnotic and alluring soundscape.” Underrated blog (USA) August 2020

“I’m a metal dude and this song is absolutely amazing.” Manzanamandinga, YouTube Double Vanity’s, self titled, video page Double Vanity comment 2020

"It's like 1984 crawled out of my speakers and cradled me" Heurt, legendary Soundcloud 'Escalator' comment 2020

AWARDS + NOMINATIONS

Soundcloud Re-Ex Electronic Underground Charts reached #1 for track:
Night Moves - Double Vanity

Music Victoria Awards 2022:
Outstanding Woman in Music Nomination - Sarah Blaby. 
Double Vanity's trio ARE the sisterband of Plaster of Paris, nominated for Best Punk Rock Act category MVAs 2021.

Music Victoria Awards 2020 longlisted for nominations in three categories:
Best Emerging Act - Double Vanity
Best Song - Escalator
Best Female Musician - Sarah Blaby

Combining 80s film score aesthetics with post-punk into a post goth, post shoegaze, and post post-punk haze. Less cymbals more handclaps

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