New Weird Australia, Fragile States | NWA022

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quasiotter amazing collection, but the first track, 'exhale 86', is one of the best ambient tracks i've ever heard. Favorite track: Exhale 86.

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1.	Madeleine Cocolas - Exhale 86 06:16	buy track
2.	JWPaton - Clearcut 04:23	buy track
3.	Travis Cook - heaven_2022 04:03	buy track
4.	Okuesha Kills - Version 1 02:58	buy track
5.	salllvage - Gaguru Revenant 03:13	buy track
6.	ilex - Kodamas 10:12	buy track
7.	Reuben Ingall - Thinking About Something Else 02:52	buy track
8.	Third Space - Dowlais 04:15	buy track
9.	Nina Buchanan - Special K 04:37	buy track
10.	Hantu - New Memory 03:37	buy track
11.	amby downs - a lightning ridge opal mine anxiety 04:28	buy track
12.	alsi - When you touch me, I see visions 05:17	buy track
13.	Chloë Sobek - Metamorphosis 07:50	buy track
14.	Puscha - The Heathens Who Long For Night, Not To Be Forgotten 08:06	buy track
15.	Sebastian Field - Vanishing Point 04:32	buy track
16.	Madenda - Serenity 02:55	buy track
17.	Silonics - Homebuyer's Dream (Excerpt) 02:37	buy track
18.	James Hazel - bodies stretched beyond the mediant 11:57	buy track
19.	Mookoid - Transgressor 08:58	buy track
20.	Bradfield Dumpleton - Out Of The Frying Pan 06:02	buy track
21.	K Wilson - Open Palm 04:10	buy track
22.	Timothy Fairless - DisConnective Tissue 05:46	buy track
23.	Melanie Velarde - Donuts 02:32	buy track
24.	Ambient Lights - Trying To Stay Positive 04:16	buy track
25.	Freya Berkhout - Maudlin 03:37	buy track

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You can 'Name Your Price' to stream or download this compilation, and all proceeds will be donated to both Seed Mob, Australia’s first and only Indigenous youth-led environmental organisation; and Firesticks Alliance, who provide Indigenous leadership, advocacy and action to protect Country through cultural fire and land management practices.

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NWA022 was compiled on the sacred land of the Darug People. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we work and pay our respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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released November 30, 2022

 NWA022

Brian Eno defined “ambience” as “atmosphere”, as “a surrounding influence: a tint”, and he created Ambient Music to induce “a space to think”. In the intervening forty-five years, the genre classified as ambient has instead generated an endless catalogue of anodyne day-spa sounds that run perilously close to the Muzak that he reacted against.   

In Fragile States, we return to ambient’s origin story, to capture the atmospherics of our time, highlighting the values of “doubt and uncertainty” that were so present, and so prescient, in Eno’s work. Although he sought to make his ambient work “as ignorable as it is interesting”, we seek not to rescind the agency of sound. Our environments are too perilous to be ignored.

  Instead, Fragile States proposes a ‘conscious ambience’, one which is entirely in lock-step with our social and political malaise. Across 25 tracks, we find all manner of misgivings in our surrounding influences. The tint is now tainted, yet we move on nonetheless. This is ambient music for connection and purpose. Atmospheres for change and action; for tuning in, not tuning out. Music for life support.

Compiled by Stuart Buchanan.

 Cover Painting by Tahlia Palmer.
 ambydowns.bandcamp.com

All tracks (excl. 15) previously unreleased.
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