Echoes of Australis, by The Cambrian Explosion

Echoes of Australis

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1.	The Researchers Are Baffled 02:12	buy track
2.	Lark Quarry Stampede 04:42	buy track
3.	Waitomo Moments 04:17	buy track
4.	Cape Paterson, 1903 (The Antarctic Suite Part VII) 03:25	buy track
5.	School; Réunion 03:03	buy track
6.	Glacial Movement 03:56	buy track
7.	Gondwana Reprise (The Antarctic Suite Part X) 03:28	buy track
8.	The Dying Days of a Once Great Lineage (The Antarctic Suite Part XXIV) 06:38	buy track

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The fourth studio album by The Cambrian Explosion, ‘Echoes of Australis: The Forgotten Music of Felix Ookean Vol. II’ recreates the soundtrack to a fictional 1977 documentary series produced by eccentric nature documentary maker and composer, Felix Ookean. An eclectic trip through late-20th century Australiana and musical esoterica, the album weaves a tapestry of wide-ranging influences, genres and timbres. Nods to 20th century minimalists, Enya-esque synthscapes, world music facsimiles, field recordings, and spoken word conjure a portrait of an artist hellbent on leaving no sonic niche unexplored.

After a six-year hiatus for 'parenthood and general life stuff' following the release of ‘Marine Theology’ in 2014, The Cambrian Explosion were resolute: 2020 will be our year. Needless to say, it wasn't the comeback the band had envisioned, with members instead trapped in their homes in Melbourne under one of the strictest pandemic lockdowns in the world.

Necessity being the mother of invention, ‘Echoes of Australis’ was written, recorded, produced and mixed remotely. Surprisingly, this resulted in perhaps the most free-flowing collaboration in The Cambrian Explosion’s long history. The album revisits a conceptual space the band explored exactly ten years earlier, functioning as a sequel to ‘The Forgotten Music of Felix Ookean’, released via Bandcamp in 2011. Ookean’s unique perspective provided a fixed point that would tie the new pieces together both in concept and tone.

Echoes of Australis is the prequel to Isolated Continents: The Forgotten Music of Felix Ookean Vol. III (cambrianexplosion.bandcamp.com/album/isolated-continents)

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released December 7, 2021

The Cambrian Explosion are:
John Cheong-Holdaway - bass, keyboards, guitars
Rohan Long - vocals, guitars, keyboards, saz, field recordings
Simon Long - keyboards, bass
Jem Savage - drums, bass, guitars, keyboards

Recorded and produced by the Cambrian Explosion.
Mixed and mastered by Jem Savage.

Collages by Caleb Colledge
Album cover design by Tim Ware
Band photo by Gavan Mitchell

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The Cambrian Explosion Melbourne, Australia

The Cambrian Explosion consists of multi-instrumentalists John Cheong-Holdaway, Rohan Long, Simon Long and Jem Savage. Starting as a live ensemble in the early 2000s, the band now focuses on studio recording projects of an increasingly ambitious and conceptual nature. ... more

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