As if Melbourne Recital Centre needed any more stellar acts in its summer program - Season One: Horizon - they've just added some very cool new acts.
Recital Centre’s first Season One: Horizon lineup featured Angel Olsen, Jordi Savall, Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn, Robert Henke, Siobhan Stagg, Paul Lewis, Arcadia Winds, Mindy Meng Wang, Paul Grabowsky, Jackie Bornstein, Duo Eclettico, Cowboy Junkies and more!
Today, Yann Tiersen, The Chills, Parsnip, Nakhane, and Kav Temperley join that distinguished lineup. The all-star cast add to an already impressively varied musical spectrum, with the lush and captivating soundscapes of Tiersen (Amelie) set to contrast magnificently against the theatrical, uplifting and vibrantly rhythmic Nakhane and the great Australian songwriting tradition as epitomised by Temperley’s (Eskimo Joe) solo outing.
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The Chills + Parsnip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjW3MT8D9RY
Saturday 18 February 2023 8pm at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Dunedin innovators The Chills with celebrated frontman Martin Phillipps traverse lush psychedelia, whimsy and gloom, punk rock and bright jangly pop, supporting their seventh studio album, Scatterbrain. They’ll be joined by Melbourne’s effervescent four-piece Parsnip; the local ‘60s psych-appreciators offer a cavalcade of jangle pop with a lo-fi, retro rock aesthetic.
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Kav Temperley
Thursday 23 February 2023 7pm at Primrose Potter Salon
Celebrating the release of his sophomore solo album, Machines Of Love & Grace, one of Australia’s most iconic front men Kav Temperley of Eskimo Joe has all bases covered with his solo record, featuring deep strings, plucky piano and glittering guitar captured in the carefully considered instrumentation and arrangement with politically-conscious lyricism delivered in that famed timbre.
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Nakhane
Wednesday 15 March 2023 7.30pm at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
One of the most interesting, diverse and talked-about artists, Nakhane is a published author, award-winning actor, musician and singer famed for their haunting, heart-trembling, fuck-them-all records, picked out in creamy synth chords, melancholy strings and the occasional mbira twang.
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Yann Tiersen
Tuesday 21 March 2023 7.30pm at Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Whether its the gentle, awe-inspiring piano that made him famous, the Interpol-esque brooding guitars of his later records, the soft and childish xylophone or the bells, a bass clarinet and some inter-terrestrial moaning – Tiersen’s elements don’t fit into any one genre. Unlike a traditional composer, Tiersen says he doesn’t have a sense of direction or structure. “I just put stuff together and see if it works.”
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Book tickets to Yann Tiersen, Nakhane and/or The Chills before 1pm Friday 11 November and access the best seats in the house.
