Ned Collette returns to Melbourne to launch new album Mixed Light at The Quadraphonic Club, backed by a quintet.
Ned Collette returns to Melbourne to launch new album Mixed Light at The Quadraphonic Club, backed by a five-piece of close collaborators.
The band is a serious one. Chris Abrahams of The Necks takes the piano, with Ben Bourke on bass, Leah Senior lending her voice and Joe Talia behind the drums, the same lineup last seen locally as part of the New Rampant Optimism Roadshow at Rising 2025. Together they’ll dig deeper into Mixed Light alongside cuts from 2024’s Our Other History and a handful of numbers reaching all the way back to Collette’s 2006 debut, Jokes & Trials.
Ned Collette – Mixed Light album launch
- Ned Collette, Mixed Light album launch, with special guest Sarah Mary Chadwick
- The Quadraphonic Club, 345 Victoria Street, Brunswick
- 9 October, 6pm–11pm
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Ned Collette has spent the better part of two decades building a catalogue that refuses to sit still, with eight albums of writing that leans literary and music that slips between folk, jazz and avant rock. Much of it has been made out of his studio in Berlin, where he’s been based since 2010, and released across a run of international labels. His orbit takes in Bonnie Prince Billy, who sings on the new record, plus Cat Power, Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, Kurt Vile and Deerhoof.
Presented by It Records, the launch also brings Sarah Mary Chadwick to the bill as special guest, a fellow traveller with a new record of her own reportedly not far off. It’s a neat pairing of two writers who tend to cut close to the bone.
Mixed Light is out in Australia on It Records, and this Brunswick date is the chance to hear it played by the people who helped shape it. Grounded in Collette’s early years in improvised and experimental music, the show should stretch well beyond the recorded versions.
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