Archive for June, 2021
Today’s offering comes courtesy of Fatshaudi and Luca Rain, a partnership formed around this two-track release Dance All Day / Make Believe. It’s not really an a-side/b-side type affair since both tracks are equally beautiful in their varying intensities but Dance All Day seems like the focus track, so that’s where I’d direct you first off. You can have them both embedded her though, I’m santa today and you are my devoted acolytes, receiving each of my presents as if a sacred . I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t really understand how Christmas works, but I think I’m close.
I feel like this is the sort of record that’d make fans out of some of my favourites like Lonelyspeck or Cookii. I wonder if some of Lonelyspeck’s production palette has bled through the pages into Dance All Day because some of those floating synth textures are making me hideously nostalgic for their unparalleled Lave EP. I suspect Fatshaudi and Luca Rain worked together across this dewdrop production whereas the vocals might be… Luca Rain? I went on google and gave them my search data, just so you wouldn’t have to, and still I found virtually nothing about the artists so I went direct to the source to ask for them for some key Fatshaudi and Luca Rain facts. Luca Rain told me that her favourite colour is blue (at the moment). Fatshaudi passed on that she is a piano teacher and that she and Luca Rain are best friends. You can never count on it, but I do think there’s a good chance I’m gonna get a Walkley for this investigative journalism.
Forced into some deeper sleuthing, I can tell you that they’re seemingly from Meanjin / Brisbane and that Rachael (Fatshaudi) also presents a show called Full of Air on 4zzz that focuses on a gamut of electronic sounds and the artists who make them outside the dominant male paradigm.
Here’s a bonus cut from a [probably] Fatshaudi side project called SFT-CR. The same deft production touch applied but applied with the weight of a jackhammer here.
I’ve watched this video too many times now, enjoying the process of my brain deliquescing and hardening back to a goopy solid across the course of its three minutes and forty-two seconds. Can we quickly take a moment here to ackowledge how annoying it is that ‘forty’ is spelled ‘forty’, by the way? Absolute kulak behaviour, no-one needed to drop the ‘u’ out of there. Wild to consider that even though this music video stands paramount as a brilliant piece of visual art, Voidhood’s musical accompaniment is at no point overshadowed. This song bangs, courtesy of that N.E.R.D-esque electronic production and his vocals are a strange mixture of deep tone and alternating flow, changing all the way through.
I first came across Voidhood after he collaborated with fellow Canberra local Ryan Fennis (who you might remember from such early works as ‘To Me’, written about by your guy right here). Ryan and Voidhood teamed up on this high beam record called ‘Tapped’, the first joint release between the two from an upcoming project they had coming. Seemingly, this new single from Voidhood ‘Dissociating’ sees him back on his lonesome, but I’m no less excited to see what the two come up with next.
Meantime, bury yourself in this.
Artists you need to know rn
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| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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