Footscray Records (6-8)

Adam Halliwell (Mildlife)

Adam Halliwell is a multi-instrumentalist known for being a principal songwriter, guitarist and flautist in the band Mildlife.

Adam has won multiple ARIA awards and has toured extensively across Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA.

Adam Halliwell will be performing with percussionist Phil Stroud, celebrating the sonic world of Adam’s new album ‘Freedom Lapse’.

Freedom Lapse is the debut solo release of Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Adam Halliwell. A versatile improviser and lover of performance, Halliwell has been an active contributor to numerous musical communities in recent years. The release of Freedom Lapse marks an exciting stage in Halliwell’s journey as an artist with the culmination of several important musical facets that are now becoming foundational to his practice.

Freedom Lapse owes its genesis to an epiphanic moment experienced whilst traversing a mountainous passage in Mexico, a place where ‘the past present and future stretch out in one place’. Entranced by this environment, its colours, the villages and local life, Halliwell listened to music that inspires him (he cites Jon Hassell here). The result: ‘complete aural, visual and spiritual completeness’, a moment of discovery, he explains. Shortly after, the material that now comprises Freedom Lapse was recorded, distilling this powerful sensorial experience into a body of music that he has now invited the world to share with him.

Citizen Zane

Velvet Velcro Stalagmite Drip! With harp in rack, stereo Silvertone, micro Mellotron and 808, CZ procures a sound that yearns for the "silent times in thought" of an idealised rural subtropical memory yet embraces the churning  dissonance of urban life. A musical veneration of the flanuers of Melbourne's inner west.