Alps Unleashes His Inner-Mammal
News posted Tuesday, August 11 2009 at 09:00 AM.
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The new release from Alps is an album of whale music, but it’s not exactly your typical new-age fare.
Alps of New South Whales is the long-awaited second installment to a trilogy concocted by Newcastle-based musician Chris Hearn. And like its predecessor – 2008’s Alps of the World, where every song was recorded in a different country – Alps of New South Whales is distinctly thematic: a collection of 10 new songs each named after a different whale. Killer.
Alps of New South Whales will be released in Europe in November through Beat is Murder Records, but you can procure a copy at a series of launch shows in August/September, where Hearn promises a whale of a time. Sorry.
‘ALPS OF NEW SOUTH WHALES’ LAUNCH
Friday, August 14
Croatian Club, Newcastle, NSW
w/Kitchensfloor + Polyfox & the Union of the Most Ghosts + Rainbow Ride
Saturday, August 15
MGTVLE, Sydney, NSW
w/Naked on the Vague + Ghosts of Television + Wasted Truth + Blank Realm + Kitchensfloor + Astral Kaleidoscope
Saturday, August 22
The Metro, Adelaide, SA
w/Megafauna + Rich Parents
Friday, August 28
Step Inn, Brisbane, QLD
w/Kitchensfloor + Whyte Lightning + Deadnotes
Saturday, September 5
Pony, Melbourne, VIC
w/Popolice + Go Genre Everything + The Tantrums
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Dang - wish it wasn't at Pony!
really looking forward to hearing this album
his best release so far. fuck yeah man, beautiful.
even his son digs it, and kids know rad from dad. *
this is rad.
*(ok, his son can't talk yet...but it's probably true)
he had a kid? there ya go - amazing what you find out on mess and noise!