Andrea Keller / Wave Riders - Systems Over​-​Ride (December 3, 2021)

Systems Over-Ride is the new album from Melbourne-based pianist & composer Andrea Keller, featuring her latest musical venture, WAVE RIDERS. The quintet performs Andrea’s music with grit and spontaneity; bringing together her somewhat disparate fascinations of free jazz and doom metal, combined with potent harmonies and yearning melodies. Dichotomous relationships abound as she grapples to reconcile the brutal and the beautiful, all the while focussed on stripping back, and connecting, within acts of kindness, and solidarity.

Recorded between lockdowns 4 & 5 at Head Gap Studio in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, the album also features a set of specially commissioned remixes. Using improvised fragments from the studio session, Nicole Lizée (CAN), Bree van Reyk (SYD), Joe Talia, Philip Rex, and Theo Carbo (MEL) contribute an exhilarating set of pieces that draw threads from WAVE RIDERS and weave them into new territory and sound worlds.

1. Linger

2. Systems Over-Ride I

3. I Missed You So Much

4. Systems Over-Ride II

5. Systems Over-Ride III

6. Silver Leaves

7. For All The Wrong Reasons

8. Trio Repercussions

9. Systems Over-Ride IV

10. I'll Wave To You From The Car

11. Systems Over-Ride V

12. In Solidarity

Scott McConnachie – saxophones

Jack Richardson – guitar

Andrea Keller - piano

Mick Meagher – bass

Rama Parwata – drum set

Recorded on June 29 & 30, 2021

Recorded at Head Gap Studio, Preston, VIC Australia

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Lachlan Carrick

Designed by Luke Fraser/Ahr+

PREORDER

I Hold the Lion's Paw: The Brunswick Green Bootlegs - Vol. 1 (2018)

The Brunswick Green Bootlegs - Vol. 1 is the second live release from the Australian psychedelic jazz collective I Hold the Lion's Paw. The album features three full-length improvised sets recorded in 2017 during IHTLP's continuing residency at the iconic Melbourne bar, The Brunswick Green. 

Each set features a different lineup of internationally acclaimed musicians who have assembled to dissect, abstract and (re)bind composed material into single-take long-form improvisations and electro-acoustic remixes. Expect to hear anything from harmonious free-floating melodies, electro-acoustic noise, slowly shifting tectonic plates of sound, grungy grooves, afro-beat and free jazz. 

IHTLP’s leader and composer Reuben Lewis says “I have always wanted to develop a band that could traverse any of the sound worlds I inhabit, and to go one further, bring these worlds together in a way that enables a constantly evolving dialogue through improvisation. I Hold the Lion's Paw is the conduit for this concept and 'Vol. 1' captures us at our most raw, fearless and groovy moments in our musical home, The Brunswick Green." 

I hold the Lion’s Paw 

Whenever I dance. 

I know the ecstasy of the falcon’s wings 

When they make love against the sky, 

And the sun and moon 

Sometimes argue over 

Who will tuck me in at night. 

If you think I am having more fun 

Than anyone on this planet 

You are absolutely correct.

- Hafez

1. #8 35:54

2. #9 40:26

3. #11 46:28

Reuben Lewis - trumpet + compositions

Jordan Murray - trombone

Scott McConnachie - saxophones

Geoff Hughes - guitar

Ronny Ferella - drums

Dave Brown - electric bass

Tom Lee - acoustic bass

Recorded by Reuben Lewis

Mastered by Myles Mumford

Artwork by Daniel Kim

A Melbourne based trumpeter, composer & improviser. Reuben's practice is both a singular & eclectic new voice in Australian music.