The Quiet Room Releases
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| 01. In an unknown language 02. Twenty-Four blackbirds 03. No wake zone 04. Apocalypto 05. Our progress 06. The greater good 07. Girl in the garden 08. Manuscript 09. A conversation with you 10. Plastic Parade | Manuscript Released March 2019 (Catalog# AM-042-19) Andrew Muecke: Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Rhythms, Engineering, Production Matt Cahill: Vocals, Percussion with Terry Jones: Sax, Ewi (Tracks 8, 9 and 10) Andy Rasheed: Peddle steel, Dobro (Tracks 4 and 10) Brett Sody: Final mix and mastering |
| Press Release for “Manuscript” – The Sound Of Future Memory As its title suggests, The Quiet Room’s sophomore record Manuscript is both the beginning and the end of a process; a hand wrought, private document emerging into the light, ready for the altering gaze of others. Or, like fragments of memory and partially revealed scenes, awaiting the curious archaeology of future perspective. That the Adelaide based avant/electro duo so carefully disinter the analogue sub-strata of 1980s synth dreaming is part of their almost hallucinatory appeal. The ghosts of David Sylvian hover with echoes of Mark Hollis in a space somewhere between OMD album tracks and the misty fusions of This Mortal Coil. Phantoms of pure pop float alongside jazz phrasing, merging vaporously with poetic detachment and plaintive yearning. Indeed, this record is a multi-lingual manuscript, one that defies the crass certainties of genre reductionism and lingers diaphanously on the boundary of recognisable form and unknown pleasure. Having garnered a cult-like following for their debut album (All The Frozen Horses) Matt Cahill and Andrew Muecke return with another moody, cinematic offering. At once retro and forward thinking, Manuscript is a record in super-position. We won’t really know what it is until we measure it in future memory, until we piece it together with the ambiguous data of our own lives. Because the room is quiet, in anticipation of song. |
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| 01. Come Undone 02. The Arena 03. Noir Des’ir 04. My Side of the Story 05. A Simpler Plan 06. Q & A 07. For Our Own Good 08. All the Frozen Horses 09. Mayan Dream 10. On the Corner of Loss & Gone 11. & I Looked Everywhere | All the Frozen Horses Released January 2015 (Catalog# AM-038-15) Andrew Muecke: Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Rhythms, Engineering, Production Matt Cahill: Vocals, Percussion with Terry Jones: Sax (Track 4) Ben Pattison: Trumpet (Track 3 and 10) Mark Pesce: Spoken word (Track 8) Brett Sody: Final mix and mastering |
| Press Release for All the Frozen Horses “The Quiet Room” is an experimental collaboration between ‘Happy Ghosts’ founding member Andrew Muecke & EVOLETAH singer/songwriter Matt Cahill. Imagine if archaeology went sonic and dug up a layer of UK synth weirdness, circa 1982. It would sound something like ”The Quiet Room”. Yet far from being a haircut band, this Australian duo comes from the avant-electro end of the spectrum, where lush soundtrack style, analogue synths sit beneath moody abstract poetics and darkly sparse instrumentation. Think Japan, The Blue Nile & obscure Human League B-sides blended into an exotic, cinematic, off-kilter melange. ‘All The Frozen Horses’ is late night music for smoky rooms. Leftfield, literary and liquid, it’s a private pleasure palace for the arty bastard inside you. ‘All the Frozen Horses’ is the resulting debut album of both Matt & Andrew’s collective musical histories colliding. Containing elements of both Dark & New wave, ‘All the Frozen Horses’ is Avant-Garde/Electro pop, at its best. |