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“Steady State” is the third album by Clinton Green & Barnaby Oliver. They use aluminium bowls, piano and strings to create a combination of shifting resonances, coalescing into other-worldly music that at first appears static, yet constantly shifts and re-grounds itself.

In August 2022, they performed a concert at Tempo Rubato in Melbourne, Australia, premiering two new pieces. They returned to the venue in October of the same year to record the new works, sans audience, taking advantage of the venue’s sublime 102-key Stuart & Sons grand concert piano (which Oliver plays on “State”). This album is the result of that session.

Limited edition of 100 copies. Shipping October 2025, preview track and pre-order now.

YARROW – Debut organic industrial music from Clinton Green & Allanah Stewart. Baby blue/pink hand-labelled cassette, housed in a hand-made pouch, with dried botanicals sewn into each one by Allanah. Each object is a unique, beautiful object, limited an edition of 30 hand-numbered copies. Stream/digital here as well.

More than half the total run gone already, so get in quick. We will reserve a handful for the tape launch next week…

MELBOURNE LAUNCH – Merri Creek Tavern, Thursday 7 August w/- Jess Aszodi/Lizzy Welsh & Tom Kazas

Clinton Green & Allanah Stewart launch their debut cassette Yarrow with a rare live duo performance at Dimensions Of Incomprehensibilities, on 7 August at Merri Creek Tavern, Northcote, Melbourne.

The limited edition of 30 cassettes, housed in handmade pouches with dried botanicals sewn in by Allanah, is selling fast – currently only 5 copies are left for pre-order. We are also keeping a handful aside for the launch. Digital version also available.

Yarrow is debut organic industrial music release from Clinton Green & Allanah Stewart, pre-order & stream the A-side now: Baby blue/pink hand-labelled cassette, housed in a hand-made pouch, with dried botanicals sewn into each one by Allanah. Each object is a unique, beautiful object, limited an edition of 30 hand-numbered copies.

Launch at Merri Creek Tavern, Melbourne, 7 August.

Astasie-abasie’s “Vestigial Gamelan” is the third in a series of experiments exploring the magnification of the insignificant sounds. The chaotic but inherently repetitive patterns created by the interaction between the objects has been realised through a minimum of gestural action by way of a number of distancing strategies, such as the use of hand drills, film winders and motorised drills/screwdrivers.

Astasie-abasie is a project of Ian Andrews which evolved out of a long running performance collaboration with Garry Bradbury. The project focuses on the amplification of small sounds (following the approach of John Cage, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor) through the capture of sounds generated by small objects by way of contact microphones, home constructed cartridges, miniature piezo microphones and conventional microphones. Various devices are used as constraints in order to distance any performing gesture of the artist from the compositional process. The compositional process is, in this sense, aleatory and close to automatic. Much like field recording, sounds are found rather than performed or manipulated. Modified, or ‘prepared’ turntables are often used to bring about the sounds, after which any editing of the material is kept to a minimum. “Vestigial Gamelan” is the third in the “Gamelan” series, following “Elliptical Gamelan” (2022) and “Molecular Gamelan” (2021).

Limited edition of 100 copies with locked grooves ending both sides, or digitally.

**SPECIAL OFFER** Purchase the Gamelan series for the reduced price of $78 (“Vestigial Gamelan” LP + “Elliptical Gamelan” LP + “Molecular Gamelan” CD).

Blue Plum Bloom is the debut album from the improvising trio of David Brown (prepared guitar, electronics), Tony Buck (drums, percussion) and Magda Mayas (piano, objects).

The trio is an expansion of Buck (The Necks) and Mayas’ long-time Berlin-based duo, Spill, but with the expansive addition of Melbourne-based Brown (Pateras/Baxter/Brown, Western Grey, Stone Echidna, Dumb & the Ugly, and countless other sonic explorations) making the ensemble behind this album a unique beast indeed. The trio has been playing sporadically now for about a decade; usually low-key shows in Australia when Buck and Mayas are visiting or when Brown returns the favour in Europe. The trio describe their music as “pointalistic interactions combined with contrasting timbral sonorities expanding the language developed by Spill into a new, more expansive whole; piano with objects and guitar and drums intertwined and subtlety shifting in focus, like a constantly shifting kaleidoscope of sound”. 

Blue Plum Bloom was recorded live at the New and Experimental Arts Lab on Wadawurung Country (Geelong, Australia) in December 2019. The album is issued on a limited edition of 150 copies of marbled royal blue and white vinyl, pressed at Program Records in Melbourne. It comes housed in full colour sleeve printed on reverse board, with a postcard insert + download code.

Ross Manning’s vinyl-only album from 2023 Some Technical Drawings is now available for the first time as a digital edition. We still have a handful of copies of the limited edition clear vinyl with hand-applied bespoke locked grooves still available as well.