New Compilation - Worlds Only World
New Compilation - Worlds Only World
24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities
New Weird Australia, Worlds Only World (NWA024)
Compiled by 'transient ambient' group Worlds Only, New Weird Australia's new compilation features 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities.
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All proceeds from the release will be donated to organisations delivering mutual aid on the ground in Palestine, and to recently settled Palestinian refugees.
‘Community’ in experimental music is a nebulous thing. Online, it is sprawling and vaporous; on ground, it can be covert and often short-lived. Tenuous though it may be, a strong and active community is critical for our sustained interest and sustained practice, and is often the balm we need to steady our anxious minds.
As we consider what community means in the common era, we turn to the 'transient ambient' group Worlds Only, an itinerant group of artists who celebrate collective creative action. Their presence may seem nascent, but their connections to New Weird Australia stretch back to our genesis, fifteen years ago. Their extended family, represented here, likewise features label community old and new.
This compilation, the 31st in our canon, represents longevity and resilience as much as variation and vigour - delivering the requisite yin / yang for a healthy community, one that exists today and persists tomorrow.
"The group of artists here do not represent a specific scene, but collectively reflect a particular mindset that embraces ambiguity, values integrity, stretches the idea of what constitutes experimental music, blurs traditional songwriting vs improvisation, complicates Australian identity, stretches how melodic and rhythmic ambient music can be, and celebrates the transient ambient nature of how our lives intertwine." - Worlds Only
New Weird Australia, Worlds Only World is out now on all platforms, featuring 24 tracks of post-genre experimentation with debut collaborations, one-off matchups, spin-offs, and rarities from Tracy Chen, Aarti, Makeda, CORIN, Mara, Worlds Only, Match Fixer, Lu9a, Deep Phase 1, Rory J S, T. Morimoto, Earth Coincidence Control Office, Flirting with Shadows, Del Lumanta, Akka, Blue Divers, Oscar Key Sung, Tzeki, Wytchings, AnSo, Ivan Vizintin, Source Decay, Monica Brooks and Tzekin & Ali, with cover artwork by Alexander Tanazefti.
We encourage you to stream / download and donate at Bandcamp. All proceeds from the release will be donated to organisations delivering mutual aid on the ground in Palestine, and to recently settled Palestinian refugees.
Thanks as ever for your love and support x
New Weird Australia
Worlds Only - Thomas William Smith (T. Morimoto), Alister Hill, Reginald Harris, Justin Tam (Tzekin), Darren Lesaguis, Jenny Trinh (Wytchings).
TRACKLISTING
Tracy Chen - Something true (draft) 01:29
Aarti - room2fm 03:40
Makeda - Blue Eyes 04:50
CORIN - retorno 04:58
mara - Arthur 03:39
Worlds Only - Bingo 07:57
Match Fixer - Dozing in the cool air 04:24
lu9a - Ma Fi 06:24
Deep Phase 1 - The Abyss 05:05
Rory J S - 26 02:43
T. Morimoto - cold rock 04:36
Earth Coincidence Control Office - A Pit A Labyrinth 03:51
Flirting with Shadows - 我想你了 03:45
Del Lumanta - Guiding Spectres 08:29
akka - solemn debt 05:21
Blue Divers - Last Place 03:25
Oscar Key Sung - last day of june 03:02
Tzekin - Not An Angel 04:46
Wytchings - Crop Circles 03:52
AnSo - silent destruction 04:33
Ivan Vizintin - Don’t Play the Wordle 01:43
Source Decay - I Wish You Knew Me In December 04:45
Monica Brooks - Morph For Puddles 12:19
Tzekin & Ali - Dislocated Improv 08:32
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ARTIST STATEMENT ON PROCEEDS
Every dollar from this release will go to the people of Palestine. Due to the escalating genocide in Palestine and our own government sending weapons, we will send it to two places: mutual aid on the ground such as @gazamutualaid, @operationolivebranch, @connectinghumanity_, to ensure resources reach people and are not blocked by faceless government institutions; and @para.foundation, who are equipping recently settled Palestinian refugees and seeking ongoing donations for items requested for families.
We ask you to escalate your actions in your own communities, with other musicians and workers, at your shows, until Palestine is fully liberated.