Adam Halliwell Sono Una Pera LP Launch w/ Flora Carbo

We are delighted to have Mildlife's Adam Halliwell for his solo east coast tour, with support from the amazing Flora Carbo. This is a free event - please RSVP via the link and or rock up on the day ( :

About Adam's new album:

Adam Halliwell’s ’Sono Una Pera’ - a new album of Italian folk songs inspired by a quasi-Italian

upbringing.

Experimental instrument techniques, outdated midi technology, pop sensibilities, plain song

bardisms are weaved between organic song forms and modal improvisations. Sung entirely in

Italian, the album is a collection of stories, fantasies, tales, false experiences inspired by a

quasi-Italian upbringing with Adam’s Nonni (grandparents) in Diamond Creek, Naarm.

‘Sono Una Pera’ means ‘I Am A Pear’. The idea comes from the pear trees planted on his

Nonno and Nonna’s property that they bought when they moved from Italy to Australia in the

50’s. The pears are a symbol of home, and also reflect a story of assimilation from one culture

to another.

Developed across five years, this sound world was crafted from a folkloric, bard-esque

perspective and through centring sonic and lyrical storytelling, serves as tales and riddles for the

listener.

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Adam Halliwell is a unique multi-instrumentalist and composer, recognised for his intimate and

ever-evolving sound, and distinct enduring commitment to improvisation and experimentation

across all his creative facets. Halliwell's musical sensitivity to form and narrative, as well as his

lucidity/chaos juxtapositional-style has made for groups such as ARIA award-winning, Mildlife,

and APRA Art Music nominated, I Hold The Lion’s Paw.

With numerous acclaimed collaborations to his name (Rama Parwata, Sui Zhen, Flora Carbo,

Phil Stroud Band), Halliwell has spent his life devoted to music, drawing from an ever evolving

pallet of sonics from outsider folk musics, to experimental pop-leaning composition and free jazz

improvisation to songwriter musics. Halliwell’s bold debut album ‘Freedom Lapse’ (2023) was a

culmination of several important musical aspects that are now foundational to his practice:

extended technique, electronics, juxtaposition, and experimental instrument preparation.

Link to Bandcamp:

https://adamhalliwellmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sono-una-pera