Keyword results: Melbourne
The Fruiting Body, Nathan Gray
Explosive, celebratory and flamboyant, there's also an eeriness to Melbourne artist Nathan Gray's strange creations - the latest of which can be seen in his solo show, opening at Black & Blue this Thursday.
Showcasing his brightly coloured impromptu assemblages that incorporate sculpture, screen-printing and drawing, THE FRUITING BODY pays tribute to the handmade, fleeting, improvised and accidental.
MIFF Auteur Picks
Sure, it's a whole city away. But if you're headed down south in the next couple of weeks you really should book a ticket or two to MIFF.
Let's start with some of the festival regulars who show up each year with a new film. You're already familiar with their work, so they make comforting first choices if the program's heft is freaking you out.
Low Tracks Era and Spoterlders Vol. 1, Aoi
Fans of West Coast style - THC strength character, brainy arrangements, episodic movement, game loving bounce - are put on immediate need-to-know basis with two new releases by Melbourne's Aoi. Available free, sourced direct from the author, LOW TRACKS ERA AND SPOTWELDERS VOL. 1 pack production clout and musicality enough to empty whole shelves of industry-sanctioned hip-hop; both literally - by repurposing the good stuff as samples - and retroactively - by showing up so much conventionally released, Kangaroo-hop as BS.
The Monocle, World's Top 25 World's Most Livable Cities
You can never underestimate the stupidity of majority opinion - value judgements are far better. God knows we make a living out of them here at Right Angle. The Monocle Top 25 World's Most Livable Cities edition is unashamedly a value judgement, but not an ill-informed one. These are people who trawl the world, think critically about what makes life good, and the degree to which a city supports that ideal.
Ceduna, The Sand Pebbles
Like a scene out of Oliver Stone's sixties psyche-crapfest THE DOORS, last summer Melbourne's Sand Pebbles trekked out into the desert with a bag full of 'shrooms and kicked out some jams motherfucker! And they ended up there during Melbourne's hottest heat-wave in years. Um, oops. Hydrate dudes.
Everything Is Breaking, Silver City Highway
I'm not a melodramatic person. Really. But something about Silver City Highway's debut album EVERYTHING IS BREAKING makes me wanna don a poncho and a cowboy hat, head out into the American desert with a machine gun, some peyote, a coyote, and a vest of bullets. Is that weird?
It must be the Melbourne seven piece's reverb drenched epic rock songs - part Nick Cave, part Ennio Morricone, akin to L.
Ross McLennan
Don't let this go to your head Mistletone, but - you f!#%king rule.
This new record label isn't even two years old, yet they've released some of the most exciting new music around (Ariel Pink, Panda Bear, Dan Deacon). Now add Ross McLennan to that list.
Recorded entirely in his North Melbourne home studio, SYMPATHY FOR THE NEW WORLD is the second post-Snout solo album from this one-man chamber rock auteur.
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