A Flight Across Arnhem Land, by The Doomed Bird of Providence

A Flight Across Arnhem Land

by The Doomed Bird of Providence

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This is one of the most enjoyable music purchases I've made in a long time. The attention to craft and detail permeates the release... the songs, the images, the texture... just such a fun experience. A throwback to a less wired time when you could just sit with something and experience it. Totally unique, weirdly sublime, artful and honest and real... I'm very smitten. Thank you so much.

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1.	In the Phaeton 02:07	buy track
2.	A Snake Charmer Killed St Kilda Show Tragedy 02:15	buy track
3.	119 Tins of Opium Came to be in Port Phillip Bay 02:46	buy track
4.	Businessman Found Dead in a Shop at Mildura 02:34	buy track
5.	Ransoms for Cars 01:31	buy track
6.	Clarence St Residential 01:34	buy track
7.	A Skeleton Found in a Limestone Cave 02:28	buy track
8.	Men Hide in a Secret Cupboard 02:46	buy track
9.	Unlawfully and Maliciously Murdered 01:52	buy track
10.	Vicarage Murder the Perfect Crime 02:46	buy track
11.	Sudden Death of a Geelong Wharf Labourer 02:50	buy track
12.	Another Grim Sea Collision has Occured 02:02	buy track
13.	Arnhem Land Missing Pilot 03:12	buy track
14.	One of the Stinson Monoplanes 02:09	buy track
15.	The Lost Airmen 02:07	buy track
16.	Ghost Plane Over Lithgow 03:47	buy track

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The Doomed Bird of Providence present their fourth album, A Flight Across Arnhem Land. It marks a significant departure from the band's last album, 2017's Burrowed into the Soft Sky. Where that album was two extended instrumental pieces exploring early Australian colonial times, the new release is a collection of 16 short pieces that all contain vocals.

Found text was used as the starting point for every song. The texts themselves were sourced from Australian newspapers from the 20s and 30s. Thematically the album sits around stories drawn from this period in Australia. Band leader Mark Kluzek looked for stories that were open-ended or unresolved. Common themes started to arise, missing airplanes, cold case murders and curious, out-of-the-ordinary incidents.

The album artwork was by Judi Dransfield Kuepper who has done, amongst other things, most of the artwork and design for Ed Kuepper and Laughing Clowns.

credits

released July 1, 2022

Ian Hothersall - percussion
Mark Kluzek - accordion, vocals, bass, piano, trumpet
Rachel Laurence - viola
Katie English - flute, glockenspiel, cello
Richard Acton - guitar
Drew Barker - ukulele, melodica
Flake Brown - guitar
Barry Butcher - mechanical sound, tuba
Joolie Wood - violin
Simon Finn - guitar, banjolin
Cameron Selby - clarinet

Judi Dransfield Kuepper - Artwork
Mark Beazley - mastering
Mark Kluzek - design

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"...a vessel of bastardised prose, drawing on numerous literary sources, both real and fictitious, to create their tawdry tales of woe." (The Quietus)

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