New Weird Australia - Fragile States
New Weird Australia Compilations
- 1Madeleine Cocolas – Exhale 86
- 2JWPATON – Clearcut
- 3Travis Cook – heaven_2022
- 4Okuesha Kills – Version 1
- 5salllvage – Gaguru Revenant
- 6ilex – Kodamas
- 7Reuben Ingall – Thinking About Something Else
- 8Third Space – Dowlais
- 9Nina Buchanan – Special K
- 10Hantu – New Memory
- 11amby downs- a lightning ridge opal mine anxiet
- 12alsi – When You Touch Me, I See Visions
- 13Chloë Sobek – Metamorphosis
- 14Puscha – The Heathens Who Long For Night, Not To Be Forgotte
- 15Sebastian Field – Vanishing Point
- 16Madenda – Serenity
- 17Silonics – Homebuyer’s Dream (Excerpt)
- 18James Hazel – bodies stretched beyond the mediant
- 19Mookoid – Transgressor
- 20Bradfield Dumpleton – Out Of The Frying Pan
- 21K Wilson – Open Palm
- 22Timothy Fairless – DisConnective Tissue
- 23Melanie Velarde – Donuts
- 24Ambient Lights – Trying To Stay Positive
- 25Freya Berkhout – Maudlin
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Featuring 25 tracks across over two hours, Fragile States is a collection of ambient / experimental / electronic works that seeks to soundtrack our perilous times.
Ambient Music was defined by Brian Eno as “atmosphere … a surrounding influence”, and designed to induce “a space to think”. Fragile States aims to capture the atmospherics and influences of today’s environments, and in doing so, highlights the notions of “doubt and uncertainty” that were so present, and so prescient, in Eno’s work.
Although he sought to make his Ambient Music “as ignorable as it is interesting”, such a stance is not at all viable or desirable in these times. Rather, Fragile States proposes a ‘conscious ambience’, one which is entirely in lock-step with our social and political malaise. It is not music to be ignored, it is music for connection and purpose. Atmospheres for change and action; for tuning in, not tuning out.
The Fragile States cover artwork features a painting by Tahlia Palmer, aka amby downs, who also contributes an unreleased work for the compilation.
Compiled by Stuart Buchanan.
Cover Painting by Tahlia Palmer. ambydowns.bandcamp.com
Released December 2022
Ambient Music was defined by Brian Eno as “atmosphere … a surrounding influence”, and designed to induce “a space to think”. Fragile States aims to capture the atmospherics and influences of today’s environments, and in doing so, highlights the notions of “doubt and uncertainty” that were so present, and so prescient, in Eno’s work.
Although he sought to make his Ambient Music “as ignorable as it is interesting”, such a stance is not at all viable or desirable in these times. Rather, Fragile States proposes a ‘conscious ambience’, one which is entirely in lock-step with our social and political malaise. It is not music to be ignored, it is music for connection and purpose. Atmospheres for change and action; for tuning in, not tuning out.
The Fragile States cover artwork features a painting by Tahlia Palmer, aka amby downs, who also contributes an unreleased work for the compilation.
Compiled by Stuart Buchanan.
Cover Painting by Tahlia Palmer. ambydowns.bandcamp.com
Released December 2022
