Mundivagrants

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.