On a typical weekend, Melbourne music venue Tempo Rubato would be hosting performances on its 102-key grand piano, serving drinks from its minimalist bar, and generally playing host to good times and conversation for its dedicated group of punters. Of course, 2020 has not been a great year for typical weekends. With the Australian state […]
Hot on the heels of his stunning All That Is Not Solid album of improvised piano pieces, and acclaimed The Sand That Ate The Sea soundtrack, Mercury KX will release a new 3-track EP from composer Luke Howard. The ambient, melancholy Dark Angels EP and first single ‘Intermittent Reinforcement’ are a collaboration between Luke and […]
Violinist Mari Samuelsen recommends her favourite listening, reading, viewing, eating, and places to visit. Read our interview with Mari Samuelsen Music I really like the soundscape of Jon Hopkins, I think his album Late Night Tales: Jon Hopkins is wonderful, also the track ‘Emerald Rush’ from Singularity is super haunting. I love artists and tracks […]
Melbourne pianist and composer Luke Howard is one of ZoneOut’s OG crew. The headline artist at 2019’s ZoneOut Festival in Sydney, Luke’s draws on both the free flowing improvisation of jazz and the structured motivic development of contemporary classical. It’s these two opposing forces – the Yin and the Yang – that fuel the unstable […]
British saxophonist Jess Gillam has announced the September release of her new album Time via Decca Classics. The album’s carefully curated track list will mirror the arc of energy in a passing day and the constant orbit of our existence. Covering a range of styles, moods and influences from classical, to minimalism, to techno and […]
Unlike the piano – which unless creatively modified is confined to the 12 pitches of the Western chromatic scale – the strings have access to the notes between the notes. This freedom allows for all manner of expressive wobbling, bending, and sliding. The emotional potential of stringed instruments is only magnified when they gather in […]
Neo-classical music takes the best bits of classical music, minimalism, electronica and experimental rock and mixes them up into a delicious sound-salad. The piano has played a central role in this musical movement, lending it’s wide expressive and tonal palette to a host of iconic albums. And so ZoneOut took on the difficult task of […]
Record label Mercury KX and Decca Publishing are co-presenting the ‘Calm Amongst The Chaos’ showcase at the 2020 South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival on March 19th 2020 in Austin, Texas. This showcase is the first of its kind to be held at SXSW. Mercury KX and Decca Publishing, both entities within Universal Music Group, […]
Melbourne-based composer and pianist Luke Howard has announced the release of his acclaimed soundtrack to short film The Sand That Ate The Sea on vinyl. Artist royalties from sales of the vinyl have been donated in advance to the Australian Red Cross. Limited to 500 copies, the soundtrack album comes in a frosted clear vinyl […]
