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Timeless

by Nico Niquo

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    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

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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.

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released September 26, 2018

Writing, Production, Mixing, Vocals, Piano, Drums & Percussion by Nico Callaghan

Assistant Production, Recording & Engineering by Joseph Buchan
Tenor Saxophone & Clarinet by Jared Becker

Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg
Art, Design & Layout by Samuel Horman.

Made on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Naarm (Melbourne), 2018.

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