Selfless Orchestra 'Great Barrier' Debut Album Launch
Event description
Selfless Orchestra transform The Naval Store in Fremantle on Saturday, October 24th to launch their debut album ‘Great Barrier,’ released on Stock Records. This will be their final full performance of this immersive audio/visual show that was featured at Fringe World Festival 2020. For this event they will be premiering new songs from their next project and cause.
Selfless will be joined by special guests: Dead Jerk, Filth Goddess and Elsewhere/Rebecca.
‘Great Barrier’ will be released on Limited Edition Vinyl via Stock Records
Pre-sale tickets $20 + BF General Admission or $12 + BF for concession / low income earners
Pre-Sale GA Ticket + Pre-Order of Vinyl Record $40 + BF
GA Door sales $25-
This is a BYO event
Free Entry for Children under 15
Part Proceeds from GA tickets donated towards Reef Restoration Foundation and Frontline Action on Coal (FLAC)
Presented by Alyian and Stock Records
SELFLESS ORCHESTRA
https://selflessorchestra.bandcamp.com/
DEAD JERK
https://www.instagram.com/dead_jerk/
FILTH GODDESS
https://www.facebook.com/filthgoddess/
ELSEWHERE/REBECCA
https://elsewherebecca.bandcamp.com/
About Selfless Orchestra 'Great Barrier'
Formed in 2018, Selfless Orchestra was a collaborative emergence of musicians from the creative community of Perth, Australia, born with the manifesto of creating spaces in which hope and despair co-exist, where audiences can be educated and inspired about issues of social and environmental justice through poetical musical performance.
Influenced by Post-Rock acts that fuse classical and contemporary styles, founding members Steven Alyian (Injured Ninja, Usurper of Modern Medicine, Doublethink Prism), Ray Grenfell (Last Quokka), Madeline Antoine and Jerome Turle (The Weapon Is Sound) quickly recruited musicians and artists to the ensemble, which combined live video projections with the music in a lineup that would evolve with every performance, donating proceeds of their gigs towards community causes.
Challenging conventions of traditional music in immersive shows that break the fourth wall, their first performance is called ‘Great Barrier,’ a composition designed to educate and empower audiences to become part of a movement to help protect Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The first song from this performance ‘Eden is Lost’ was released in April 2019, followed by a full season of Performances at Perth’s Fringe Festival in 2020.
The full studio album of ‘Great Barrier,’ released on Perth imprint Stock Records takes the listener on a comprehensive journey that weaves orchestral strings, huge distorted guitars, haunting flutes, experimental percussion, whale song and more into a rich sonic tapestry. Featuring a vast array of musicians including members of the Perth Symphony Orchestra and legendary Perth Metal act Karnivool.
Expressing the beauty of the reef with the epic opening opus ‘Time is a Flower,’ the album delves into humanities complex relationship with this natural treasure through the drone and dirge of ‘False Bodies,’ sings the lament of the dying corals through the piano led ballad ‘Bleached,’ screams in fury and desperation at senseless governments and resource industries with ‘Beyond All Illusion’ and turns the despair into a glimmer of hope and resurrection with the uplifting ‘Eden is Lost.’
This seamless and expansive album is a powerful culmination of an array of talented musicians of a vast array of disciplines forming to become greater than their whole, recorded live in single studio takes with no editing, the raw and powerful performance of Selfless Orchestra’s Great Barrier is a uncompromising statement, a love letter to a natural wonder and a call to action to stand strong and protect that which is precious to us.
Selfless Orchestra Great Barrier is available Friday October 23rd on Stock Records
On this recording Selfless Orchestra is:
Steven Alyian - Guitar, Water Harp
Raymond Grenfell - Bass
Madeline Antoine - Violin
Jerome Turle - Drums
Miranda Murray-Yong - Cello
Aaron Wyatt - Viola
Angus Young - Piano
Bhavani Naea - Vocals
Drew Goddard - Guitar
Matthew Hatch - Flute
Produced by Steven Alyian
Performed by Selfless Orchestra
Engineered by Kieran Kendressy, Rebecca Parker and Jacob Aitken
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Hugh Faulkner
Recorded in Perth, Western Australia