Parenthèses Records started of as a witness of some of the incredible new musical collaborations that emerged out of Freeform, the bi-monthly improvisation evenings curated by KULCHA Multicultural Arts of Western Australia in 2009/2010, aiming at getting musicians of different cultural and musical backgrounds to play together in an open and creative way, free from some of the protocols of performer/audience convention.

From watching these new groups form and grow in new ideas, became the desire to start a releasing platform and to become a nevralgic centre for musicians keen to apprehend cultural cross-collaboration and musical exploration spanning through various idioms sitting at the crossroads between tradition and continuum.

With a broad artistic vision, the label's core objective is to engage dialogue between musicians and thus create new inter-cultural collaborative work.


A Man Called Son is the brainchild of Simon Pearlman. Conceived in Brisbane as a songwriting project, Simon set about building his home studio. Several EPs and two albums later, with some nice reviews and airplay in between, as well as the odd self-combusting drummer, AMCS is still going strong. A third album 'No Maps' is due for release in mid 2016.

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