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By: Mark Gomes
Article published: 12th May 09
Release: 7"
To Cure: A broken heart
What:
Brothersister Records 7" releases
Who:
Drama For Yamaha, Inquiet, Kharkov
On:
Brothersister Records
Where:
Brothersister Records shop
Related links:
Drama For Yamaha MySpace,
Inquiet MySpace, Kharkov MySpace
Trust cottage Melbourne label Brothersister Records to solve the 'problem' of pop music's dematerialisation and release format conundrum so neatly and with such understated class. Tonight the inventive and enduring collective launch two new lathe-cut 7-inch releases, bundled with digital mixes and packaged in beautiful, limited edition sleeve art. Cut individually in the 'unorthodox and homegrown medium' of polycarbonate plastic, each record of the fifty a-piece runs becomes, in the label's words, 'more of an obscure cultural artifact than a pinnacle of high fidelity', or a 'must-have, 4D fetish object' in ours.
The first is a split between Brothersister house band Drama for Yamaha and label founder Sam Szoke-Burke's drums-and-chanting outfit Inquiet. Drama for Yamaha's side, 'Island Pop' sounds like Tortoise dancing drunk on Pacific kava - precisely shaky and instrumentally complex - while Inquiet's soaring 'Revisiting the Andes' uses cyclical pump organ, harmonica and story telling lyrics to calming effect. Kharkov's release, 'Glitch' b/w 'Space', is more radically minimal, startling, and impossible to place geographically. His two sides of sharp-relief techno are super-controlled, Cologne-styled heavy edits, and brilliant.
Launch:
Thurs May 14 at Bar Open with support from GUGG, free entry, doors 8pm.