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**Pre-order: shipping mid July 2025**
De la Catessen Records triumphantly presents Here Comes Everything, a monumental 18CD box set marking the long-overdue recording debut of duo Pascoe & Martin. This is De la Catessen’s most lavish production to date in its ongoing commitment to unearthing, documenting, and illuminating experimental music from Port Adelaide, Australia.
The world of Here Comes Everything is rich, playful, and virtuosic. In its limitless variety it invokes a day-long perspective – and what a glorious day – of quotidian experiences, from the wondrous to the mundane. Here Comes Everything is sublime in its reverence of detail; awesome in its cumulative flood of experience; revelatory in its many extemporary dialogues both whispered and roared.
Each of the 18 parts of this Here Comes Everything is a single long improvisation, named after one of the 18 chapters of Ulysses. James Joyce’s schema for Ulysses – an 18-row chart he devised to help his friends navigate the labyrinth of each chapter’s themes and references – is the structure on which Pascoe & Martin’s far-reaching musical epic is based.
Here Comes Everything is the saga of two contradictory musical characters in their search for meaning and for each other. Chris Martin’s piano is elevated, ravishing, and rapturous. Derek Pascoe’s cabbalistic saxophone is sensual and profane. Pascoe and Martin’s journey in Here Comes Everything is akin to that of Bloom and Dedalus in Ulysses, where the fundamental inspiration for Here Comes Everything can be found.
Pascoe & Martin have been honing their craft as a long-form improvising duo for 25 years. Since 2000 their public performances have been unmissable events. Pascoe & Martin continue to challenge and contradict each other in their open-ended Socratic dialogue. Years in the making, yet entirely and thrillingly in the moment, De la Catessen Records presents Here Comes Everything in an edition of just 300 copies. Lavishly illustrated by Michael Hocking with drawings taken from life during 18 recording sessions, Here Comes Everything is not to be missed.
