***Three exclusive new songs that work as a companion piece to their upcoming new LP on Iron Lung Records. This is NO STATIK. This may be the end—count your blessings while they exist. Edition of 200 copies on black vinyl.
7" $7.75
09/07/2018
***On his debut live LP, Live at Phoenix Central Park, Melbourne-based/California-born songwriter and bandleader Michael Beach brings together three of Australia’s most well-known improvisers in a mercurial performance that is both contemplative and expansive, focused and fierce. Playing live together for the first time, the band—Lloyd Swanton (The Necks), Joe Talia (Oren Ambarchi, Ned Collette), and Mick Turner (Dirty Three)—supercharge Beach’s textural songwriting, and tap immediately into a propulsive cosmic pulse.Known as a deliberate and masterful songwriter, adept in both guitar-based post-punk (recalling Peter Laughner, Pere Ubu) and off-kilter piano balladry (Bill Fay, Peter Jefferies), Beach focuses on the latter as a jumping-off point for Live at Phoenix Central Park. “My last couple of records were dotted with more reflective moments, and friends had been encouraging me for a while to put together a whole record of ballads,” says Beach. “With these players, I feel like this collection of songs can be both introspective and outward-looking – miniature in their parts, but ever-expanding when combined.”Live at Phoenix Central Park was recorded in Sydney, Australia, on the final date of a busy 2025, during which Beach made festival appearances and headline tours across Australia, Europe, and America in support of his studio album Big Black Plume (Poison City/Goner Records). In the architecturally and acoustically designed space of Phoenix Central Park, surrounded on all sides by a hushed and reverent audience, the band immediately settles into a meditative mood, with Beach peeling fragments from the grand piano as “Introduction” segues into a...
LP $27.75
TBD