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Suite for Piano

by Drunk Hands

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Drunk Hands
Suite for Piano [EMR-009]

Three-part album recorded on a public access piano at Preston Market in Melbourne. Piano accompanies the incidental/environmental sounds of the location as midnight passes: security guards saunter, structures creak, fridges enter cyclic defrost, deliveries are unloaded, trains pass, mosquitos meet their electrified fate and occasionally a pedestrian drifts by – yet the quality of deep suburbia asleep is never disrupted.

"[Suite for Piano] captures the strange allure of fluoroscently lit public environments in the dead of night: walkways and thoroughfares passed by millions, suddenly dead." – Crawlspace

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Latest limited edition broadcast from big Volcanic Tongue faves, Duncan Blachford’s Australian avant/underground imprint Endless Melt: Drunk Hands is another nome-de-doof of Blachford (who also plays out in Exhaustion, Psychic Baggage, Actual Holes and Rubbish Throwers) and Suite For Piano was realised on a ‘public access’ piano situated in Preston Market, next to Preston Train Station. For an hour round about midnight Blachford accompanied the nocturnal scene around him, playing slow, stately piano parts in the vein of Richard Young’s Advent or even Jandek’s The Cell while the city hums in the distance behind him, with variously unidentifiable episodes of industrial activity, movements in the dark, pedestrians passing by, freezer fans switching on and off, trains passing, lone horns sounding, all the automata of the late hours combining to give the feel of a minimalist melancholy-tinged elegy to “deep suburbia asleep”. The piece runs through three ‘movements’, all with different attacks and with different degrees of invasive environmental ghosting, all of which feature overdubbed percussion by Blachford done the night after. A uniquely atmospheric and mesmerising work and a magical minimalist set. Highly recommended" – David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue

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released May 27, 2013

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Antipodean underground imprint. Established 2010, Naarm/Melbourne.

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