Warm Currency / Jonnine / James Rushford

This event will be held on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE

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Eastmint Presents

Warm Currency / Jonnine / James Rushford

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7pm Doors

7:30pm James Rushford

8:30pm Jonnine

9:30pm Warm Currency

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7-11pm Alex MacFarlane DJ in between sets

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$5 Vegan Laksa / Bar / Card and Cash accepted

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pay what you can afford sliding scale tix $10-$50

Free First Nations tix

Free companion tix

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Warm Currency 

Warm Currency is the duo of Mary MacDougall and MP Hopkins. They produce quietly intense folk music, song-poems, and concrète collages built from seemingly simple and delicate arrangements for guitar, keyboards, voice and tape. Their sound evokes an eerie atmosphere “that stains the mind like the rising damp efflorescence of your bedsit” (Boomkat).

The pair’s art songs are intimate, sparse and unadorned. Mundane and mysterious images, spoken and sung, waft and waver over spindly piano melodies and spidery guitars. For their Eastmint show they will present new material from Petals, soon to be released by the London imprint Horn of Plenty.

Jonnine 

Jonnine's solo work both dilates and deconstructs the damaged, sensual minimalism of her iconic, two decade collaboration alongside Nigel Yang in HTRK. Skeletal rhythms slink and echo through dimly lit streets framed by fragments of guitar, bass, breath, keys, scrapes, and haze, anchored by Standish’s narcotic, nocturnal voice. The moods she conjures are lovelorn but oblique, between dream and coma, scenes glimpsed through fogged glass. 

Her collection of songs titled ‘Maritz’ for DJ Sundae’s Idle Press is a further embrace of cracked mirror intimacy and torch song abstraction. Night flights, torn up photos, psychic spiders spinning webs like talismans – the world of these songs is imagistic and unrequited, attuned to absences and afterlifes. Jonnine’s Southside Girl released this year on Modern Love, is a psychedelic conjuring of a childhood summer spent by the sea. Threading field recordings through impromptu songs captured on a portable 6 track, the album plays like a series of scent memories that flip the mood in a heartbeat. 

Quotes -

“Jonnine takes to the most intimate dimensions on a third solo release that has us convinced she’s one of the finest DIY songmakers of the earliest 21c.” - Boomkat 

“Maritz is a beguiling release, with memorable songs stretched across it like trinkets in a charm bracelet. You’ll want to carry it around with you: a keepsake that you can fit in your pocket” - Pitchfork

James Rushford

James Rushford is a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose work has been described as ‘electro-acoustic experimentation with a beating heart’ (Boomkat) and ‘haunted Jacobean ASMR’ (The Wire). Investigating the creases, cracks, and folds in traditions ranging from early music to new age, his work subtly exaggerates seemingly liminal aspects such as atmosphere and the bodily presence of the performer until these take on a weight equal to musical elements such as pitch, rhythm and timbre.

James has created original work for BBC Scottish Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, GRM Présences Électroniques (Paris), MONA FOMA, ACCA, RISING, Unsound Festival, Biennale Son (Valais), Adelaide Festival and Liquid Architecture (Melbourne). Collaborators include Oren Ambarchi, François Bonnet, Graham Lambkin, Annea Lockwood, Judith Hamann and Dennis Cooper. His music has been published by Unseen Worlds, Another Timbre, Blank Forms, Holidays, Erstwhile, Black Truffle, KYE and Shelter Press.

ACCESSIBILITY 

Eastmint is accessible via wheelchair through the non main entrance, there is a small sliding door frame that we can place a ramp over the top of. Please get in touch if you require this option via email eastmintrecords@gmail.com. We regret we are unable to provide accessible toilet facilities at this time, although there is wheelchair access to the hand washing sink which is a private space. Closest accessible toilets located at the Peacock Hotel 150m away. There are no windows that are openable in the space but we will open the double doors between sets for airflow. The space is quite cavernous with high ceilings and is an un-renovated warehouse so not tightly sealed. We use a HEPA filter rated for 50m2 but the space is closer to 100m2. Please contact eastmintrecords@gmail.com if you require any other info.