Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$11AUD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Second Edition of 300
Includes unlimited streaming of Timeless
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 2 days
$26AUDor more
LP + Snakes In The Grass
About:
Nico Callaghan identifies existential issues facing primarily – but not exclusively – modern Ambient Music, and looks to those who offer insight and innovation in the face of corporate intrusions.
Features:
Foreword; Sponsored Content & Bizarro Bastardizations; An Olympic Mess & a Trash Music Fetish; Up Red Bull Creek Without Ideological Insulation; Tearing a Hole in the Grey Curtain; Selected Further Reading; Selected Listening, Ambient and not
Extract:
If an artist is engaged in a transactional or strategic relationship with a brand or company, perhaps this needs to be viewed in a different sense to the behaviours and relationships of the average consumer. Little space for change is allowed if all behaviour is vilified beyond reasonable discussion. The overused adage that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism implies a crude power dynamic of the system oppressing the subject at every turn. However perhaps artists do indeed have power to make choices, be they relatively small or large. They are the ones with the ideas, the talent, the artistic capital, and therefore, the leverage.
84 pp.
Perfect bound soft cover
105 x 148mm
Naarm, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-789-26421-0
Published by Daisart and General Enquiry
Design by Alex Margetic
Includes unlimited streaming of Timeless
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
...more
Presenting Timeless by Nico Niquo, an album written, produced and mixed by Nico Callaghan, to be released on 26th of September, 2018. The first edition of 150, black 12-inch vinyl with printed insert available with limited copies of Snakes in the Grass, a non-fiction text examining Ambient music’s evolution in the modern cultural landscape, written concurrent to the record.
Timeless sees Nico Niquo’s stylistic explorations converge at an unexpected, but long hidden reference point, Jazz-Fusion. Delivering an impassioned album that reconciles the peculiar situation of modern “Australian” music, certain touchstones are reworked into a haze of bent New Age mannerisms and Ambient passages strung together with a pairing of Dub-Techno impulse and Impressionist musings.
However, in retaining an emphasis upon hyperreal sonic landscapes, Nico has crafted a new environment for his electronic inquiries to be re-characterised into mediated form within a bizarro-Jazz realm.
With the novel presence of saxophonist and childhood friend Jared Becker, Nico’s forays into the vast lineage of Jazz synthesise and re-interpret all manner of gestures: Strayhorn’s blue moods and sardonic exoticism, Miles Davis’ proto-ambient extended sessions, and the ECM rosters’ explorations into funk, minimalism, and improvisation. The album is titled in part in acknowledgement of the late John Abercrombie's’ Timeless.
Puzzlement at an overabundance of gestures and signals with limitless opportunity sees Nico re-focus attention toward considering a personal alternative – one that pays due homage to Jazz and its influence on his music but moves distinctly away from many of its assumed leanings. Timeless is a significant shift from Nico’s earlier work but demonstrates an eagerness to let naturally evolve the possibilities of the project from its foundations.
Excellent sound design, pacing, and sense of world building. When that first bass pulse hits, you know this is going to be a bit more interesting than the typical ambient dronescape. Dano Williams
This 19-track charity compilation from London label Edited Arts showcases the moodier side of electronic music in songs that hover & float. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 6, 2021
Explore ambient music from across the globe in drifting and soothing songs on the new compilation from Electric Shapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 24, 2024