The Deep End, by Tell Me Strangely

The Deep End

by Tell Me Strangely

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Bi-fold sleeve design with insert featuring liner notes, both inkjet printed on heavy 250gsm matte photo paper. Cover photo by Edwin Powell. Insert comes in three versions, each with a different image by Tim P. at Frustration Jazz (each copy of the album has one of the three inserts). Printed disc design. Hand-assembled and comes in a durable soft plastic cd/dvd wallet.

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	1.	Lunar Ballast 08:03
	2.	Mehrangarh 09:20
	3.	On The Beach 16:57
	4.	Swarm 07:28
	5.	The Deep End 03:56

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FJ016: Debut for this Melbourne free improv trio that features Dale Chapman from The Drunken Boat, Klunk, etc, alongside newcomers Kalarin Butler and David Powell. I say newcomers but David possibly played in a past life, giving it up for the career thing at some point; Kalarin had a visual arts background before coming to sound more recently. The story goes that Tell Me Strangely formed after a chance meeting at a Residents gig in 2018 and whilst their music sounds nothing like that group there is definitely a touch of surrealism at play here. Opening track Lunar Ballast begins with a spooky alien noise chorus circling above a low throbbing pulse before everything opens into a more spacious soundscape with some beautiful post-minimal piano floating in the foreground. Elsewhere there’s weird digital jazz projected into an echo chamber (Mehrangarh) and the mechanical/organic drone and chatter of a submerged, twilight aftermath (Swarm). Aside from mic’d objects, prepared electric bass and other occasional strings, the sounds on these recordings come mostly from a wide array of electronic sources including circuit-bent toys, tone generators, field recordings, a not so ordinary cassette player, more than one kind of synth and the aforementioned digital piano. The all-embracing use of electronics together with the positioning of individual sounds within the mix is possibly what gives these tracks a very cinematic and/or musique concrète sensibility, particularly thinking of Pierre Henry here. Nothing is the slightest bit planned, let alone composed but there is a sense of structures evolving in real time, this is especially true for the longest track and album centrepiece On the Beach where various sounds drift in and out of the mix, between foreground and background, eventually building up to a crescendo or two via unfamiliar routes. There’s an ambient quality to these spontaneous soundscapes at times too but the spatial depth means you’ll hear lots of different details with repeated listens. So go on, jump in The Deep End.
- Tim P.

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released August 30, 2020

All sounds by Kalarin Butler, Dale Chapman & David Powell.

Recorded late 2018 in Melbourne.

Mixed, edited & mastered by David Powell

Cover photo by Edwin Powell

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Frustration Jazz Hobart, Australia

Improvised, exploratory & otherwise out. Small editions there-of. Started in Naarm/Melbourne and based in nipaluna/Hobart since 2018. Not a jazz label. Not afraid of contradiction.

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