“Flicker and Polar Bird” by Andrea Keller
Released: October 6, 2023
Label: Independent

Australian pianist and composer Andrea Keller releases her twenty-third album as leader in 2023.
Flicker & Polar Bird is a double album that mixes new Keller creations with re-imaginings of older works. The music celebrates the connections Andrea made as the ANU H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow in 2022, which enabled her to work with a host of wonderful musicians, deepening existing collaborations, and creating new ones.

Featuring Miroslav Bukovsky (trumpet), John Mackey (saxophone), Rachael Thoms (voice), Liam Budge (voice), Véronique Serret (violin), and string sections in Sydney and Canberra, the compositions on this double release date from 2010 to 2022 and include many previously unreleased tracks.

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“Campfire Stories” by Alex Albrecht
Released: March 10, 2021
Label: Analogue Attic Recordings

Australia’s Analogue Attic returns mid-March with the debut album from Alex Albrecht.

Here Albrecht delivers his debut solo album which “explores dreams, the unconscious and the intertwining of feelings and memory. Interspersed field recordings lend to the fragmented way people recall experiences. It is a narrative in which the listener is encouraged to attach their own thoughts and impressions to the soundscapes.’’

Since 2014, Alex Albrecht and Sean La’Brooy, better known to most as Albrecht La’Brooy, have released an array of material on Apollo Records, Scissor & Thread, their own Analogue Attic Recordings and more, always leaning towards the deep, hypnotic and emotive side of House, Techno and Ambient.

The project is a gapless album, intended to be listened from start to finish and welcomes a number of collaborations throughout with the likes of 30/70’s Allysha Joy and Ziggy Zeitgeist (ZFEX), Thomas Gray, Carla Oliver (Badskin) as well as long-time musical partner and co-label head, Sean La’Brooy.