Coda Chroma ‘Dreamself’ Album Launch Tour
Event description
Coda Chroma's third studio album Dreamself, freshly released on 31 March 2023, celebrates the liminal space between awake and asleep, where stories unfold through abstraction and try to make sense of experiences and situations. Dreamself plays with shadows and light in a landscape where fragile introspection is at home alongside upbeat jangle-pop, and synthetic sounds mess around with acoustic instrumentation. Matched with the immaculate work of producer Damien Charles, the album features a string ensemble, swirling layers of synthesisers, a driving rhythm section and ethereal backing vocals by Natalie Lewis. Dreamself has landed album of the week on PBS, 2SER, and Australian Independent Record Labels Association (AIR), with tracks added to Double J rotation and landing in the AMRAP charts.
"So real and candid; a maker of mesmeric dream-stuff" - David Astle, ABC Melbourne (Radio)
"There’s just something so magical about Coda Chroma" - Fort Magazine, April 2023 (full article)
Coda Chroma (aka Kate Lucas) is an award-winning songwriter from Ballarat, Victoria, and is described as “one of the most innovative and noteworthy musicians in Australia.” (Tone Deaf, 2021). Coda Chroma creates music that sways between cinematic and baroque pop, with otherworldly harmonies, honest and existential lyrics, suspended in deeply nuanced production. Coda Chroma’s songs are drawn from personal dreamscapes and real life encounters, delivering poetic honesty, with a nostalgia for the unknown. She works very closely with NZ born producer Damien Charles on this cinematic Indie-Folk project, creating otherworldly arrangements and expansive musical landscapes.
Monique Clare, an indie-folk artist with a unique blend of chamber pop, captivates audiences with her intricate cello lines, compelling vocals, and heartfelt lyrics about love, loss, and her generation's thoughts. Raised in a musical family and having toured with various renowned artists, Monique has developed a strong stage presence and an ability to connect with her audience intimately. With diverse musical experiences, including teaching cello in Afghanistan and performing at international events like the World Expo in Dubai, she has embraced an array of genres and encourages vulnerability and courage through her songwriting. Monique's debut album, "Sight," was released in 2022, earning critical acclaim and chart success.
“There's a depth of not just sonic interest, but personality, that by using her cello accentuates both Monique's musical style and her persona.”
- Scenestr Magazine
“Monique takes her years of music training and her brilliantly quick and creative mind and delivers a performance that is stunning to fans of any music genre. Her songs are intimate and soaring - both sonically and lyrically, and her stage presence is pure joy".
- Matt Smith, Folk Alliance International president
Doors at 7:30pm.
$29 on the door.