For some reason we seem to be putting out a new release
around September each year. So predictable. It’s honestly not intentional,
especially since my little guy’s internal clocks are set to a different time
zone to the rest of the world.
With most of the planet locked down for the last 12 months
or so, opportunities for conventional approaches to music have been severely
curtailed, so we have been left to wander the Earth mentally and musically
without much of a compass to guide us. The result has been a diversion into
some of the most maligned musical territory in the world. We ended up exploring
New Age and World music for hidden opportunities. Why? Because it’s there,
silly. And what else were we going to do?
It would have been right and proper to take on conspiracy theorists
and anti-vaxxers given the current situation, and we might still do that in one
of our public service broadcasts
on Youtube, but no. I wanted to escape a bit and travel the world without
leaving home.
My little guys are always surreptitiously travelling the
world, so for them it was just a matter of diarising the whole thing and giving
me the lonely planet skinny to work with. So for those of you not put off by
the threat of New Age and World sounds, here is what you are looking at.
The focus of this is on rhythm and how rhythms can intersect,
even though they exist in separate physical and cultural spaces. We are going
to zig-zag you around the world in about 40 minutes and let you see it through
our shades. If Dick Dale got together with members of Can on a backpackers tour
of world, and then wrote a symphony about it on their return, they might have
come up with something like this. But it would have lacked the ambient icing on
the cake, which is where we come in. If you like our atmospheric stuff like
Light Well, Synaesthesia and Nullarbor & Void, you should love this. The
main difference is that with Munidvagrants you can even dance to it.
Take the trip here: Mundivagrants.
Tracks:
Mundivagrants (18:48)
Obsquatulate (3:53)
Peregrinations (18:02)
Jiwaperjalanan (2:21)
All music and production by Alvis Impulsive; (P) and ©
Banzona Music 2021.
